Alexander Korth (@alexkorth) lives and works in Berlin as a freelancing IT consultant. Before, he headed a competence center for information retrieval and machine learning at DAI-Labor, Technische Universität Berlin. Furthermore, he currently finalizes his PhD thesis about privacy in social networks. He was an Invited Expert at W3C's Social Web Incubator Group, co-operated the second Berlin Barcamp in 2007 and hosts a Social Web related lecture series since 2006.
Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series by Alex Korth on privacy. In the next post, he will cover problem areas that originate from provider goals and market mechanics. To date, we witness the mass adoption of social networks. Roughly every 10th citizen of this planet uses these services to communicate with...
Almost one year ago we started a post series that presented three different webs that are all made for machines. Now it is time to connect those webs and look at examples of how they can be used. To recap, first we looked at the Web of Data, which contains open, structured data sets consisting...
In the last two posts in this series, we discussed the Web of data, which makes structured interlinked data sets machine-accessible, and the Web of identities, which makes data about people machine-accessible while addressing privacy and data volatility. This time, we'll focus on the Web of services, which makes services accessible to and processable...
In a previous article, we discussed the Web of data, which is about inter-linking open data sets and, thus, turning them into machine-accessible structured data. In this post, we'll draw a picture of how the emerging social Web could serve as a Web of identities, which is essentially a people-data version of the Web of...
In the coming years, we will see a revolution in the ability of machines to access, process, and apply information. This revolution will emerge from three distinct areas of activity connected to the Semantic Web: the Web of Data, the Web of Services, and the Web of Identity providers. These webs aim to make semantic...
