Archive for November, 2006
Web 2.0, long tail, Web 3.0: anyone for the long term?
In the Autumn of 1989 I came back from my industrial training year at Eurostat in Luxemburg with a view that speech technology was going to be the next big thing. After completing my degree, I set out for Edinburgh the following year to join a new MSc in Speech and Language Processing - […]
Web 2.0, the Economies of Culture and Machiavellian Chimps
I first came across Machiavellian Intelligence and Chimpanzees over morning coffee in the staff common room of the St Andrews University School of Psychology. I should quickly clarify that there were no chimps present, the academic politics at St Andrews was no more vicious than at any other University and no animals have […]
Social networking: not an open and closed case
I was born in Great Yarmouth, a town on the East Coast of Norfolk. The town is essentially built on a long sandbank formed at the confluence or rivers flowing from the Broads. The tidal Breydon Water lies behind the town. Small boats navigate its narrow channels to move between the Broadland Rivers. […]