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The Current State of Web Privacy, Data Collection, and Information Sharing

[...] some tools that use your Last.fm data to make it more personal and insightful.

LastGraph lets you explore your last.fm listening history. Stick your username in the box above (or someone else's, if you feel like snooping), and hit enter.

The most under-appreciated search engine on the Internet.

We are pleased to announce the release of our first research prototype of a social dynamic analysis tool for Wikipedia called WikiDashboard.

The idea is that if we provide social transparency and enable attribution of work to individual workers in Wikipedia, then this will eventually result in increased credibility and trust in the page content, and therefore higher levels of trust in Wikipedia.

This demo features the Wikipedia, with the text colored according to trust. Text on white background is fully-trusted text; the more orange the background, the lower the value of trust. Type a page title in the search box on the left to see the page trust-colored.

View real-time data and statistics from any logfile on any server with SSH, in an intuitive and entertaining way.

This Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) technology has the potential to allow computers to solve problems that are currently easily solved for humans but difficult or impossible to solve for machines.

We'll call the "Kevin Bacon number" from one article to another the "distance" between them. It's then possible to work out the "closeness" of an article in Wikipedia as its average distance to any other article.

A mathematical model produced by Prof Andrew Watson suggests that the odds of finding new life on other Earth-like planets are low, given the time it has taken for beings such as humans to evolve and the remaining life span of Earth.

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