In developing a computing system, two different issues need to be considered: Competence and Performance. Competence addresses the functionality of the system and directly relates to what could or could not be done by the system. Thus the effectiveness and…
Structured and unstructured data (2)
For communication, thinking, and reasoning abstractions and structures are important. Humans started using both structuring and abstractions. It appears that most advances in human society are somehow related to the ability of creating new abstractions and developing new structuring processes.…
Structured and unstructured data (1)
As computer scientists we distinguish between structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. For example, relational databases are to deal with structured data, and unstructured data is very difficult to deal with. One is forced to ask what is the fundamental difference…
Sharing your photos: Fotonaut
Fotonaut.com is trying to become a combination of Flickr and a Wikimedia for photos. Interesting model and ambitious approach. It is still in private beta. It appears that this service will allow you to link information available on the Web…
Sharing your photos: Orsiso
Orsiso.com wants to help you in organizing and simplifying your socially networked life. You can aggregate and pull information, inclusing phot albums, from multiple sites and have a unified access at one place. This company is also in private beta…