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Science today – Simple Scenario of Research Paper use- The Unclaimed Claims

Mandi on 09/12/2012

A: That moment, when you read a paper and you know one of the cited authors 🙂 A: *quote from the paper which is citing here, with a claim* B: aha! 🙂 B: cool, which paper? A: wait, let me...Read More

Internet

Drink your own milk idiom is better then Eat your own dog-food

Mandi on 06/19/2012

I was following up the twiter account of the Albanian Minister of IT (or something similar, it is just a branch of the Albanian Government which does pretty much nothing I am aware of) and I found this great picture...Read More

Linked Open Data

Search vs. Findability vs. Information Retrieval

Mandi on 06/17/2012

Having a chance to attend the IKS Workshop, I enjoyed many of the talks and presentations that had a focus on semantic technologies in action. The workshop was very informative, (in a great location) with a good mix of attendees...Read More

Domain Host.al

Little countries, big domains

Mandi on 04/18/2012

Browsing through .al domains, I realized that the .al domains are being registered from almost every big corporation. Google (.com.al), Microsoft (.com.al), Facebook, Twitter, Ebay and a bunch of other companies own at least one .al domain. Some of them...Read More

Linked Open Data

RDF Databases!? Here comes DB2 from IBM

Mandi on 04/11/2012

It looks like IBM is serious about attracting the best of the new technology. They have just announced the release of “DB2 Version 10”, the First Big Upgrade in Four Years. The company has also updated its InfoSphere data warehouse...Read More

Research Data

A Free Online Course for Research Data Management for PhD Students

Mandi on 04/04/2012

Accidentally run into this great online tutorial named Mantra. The Research Data MANTRA is a course designed for PhD students and others who are planning a research project using digital data. The course is online at: http://datalib.edina.ac.uk/mantra/ and it was...Read More

Linked Open Data

SPARQL / RDF and PHP

Mandi on 03/28/2012

While it looks that all the development tools dealing with RDF and SPARQL are pretty much Java Oriented, there are also some nice libraries and tools that can help any ‘PHP lover’ easily test and start working with simple RDF...Read More

Internet

OpenDNS vs. Google DNS vs. Norton DNS

Mandi on 03/26/2012

There are a few posts around the internet aiming to push users to change their DNS for faster internet experience. Although this might be true in very (very) few cases, I believe the closest DNS server to you, are the...Read More

Domain

Crazy sales on “Social” domains

Mandi on 03/25/2012

There are still those thinking that domains are being overestimated. And yet another domain sale that hits the record. Social.org was sold for 228,600$ on NameJet. This may be considered a big sale, but it is still less then 10% ...Read More

Ekonomia Open Data Albania Shqip

“Partneritet për Qeverisje të Hapur” në stilin burokratik

Mandi on 03/16/2012

“It takes political leadership. It takes technical knowledge. It takes sustained effort and investment. It takes collaboration between governments and civil society.” OpenGovPartnership Para gati 2 vjetësh, i frymëzuar nga një video e Hans Rosling diskutoja gjithë kenaqësi sa...Read More