I have been extremely busy recently. Probably this is why I was not blogging too much.
But here is the reason:
The last two months I have been building a new software platform for knowledge management on Web 3.0 called digi.me.

It is based on the research of my team (formerly Corrib.org, now KnowledgeHives.com) on semantic digital libraries, collaborative filtering, social networking and semantic web.
digi.me follows and extends certain ideas we have implemented in the research prototype, http://notitio.us/, presented at the Semantic Web Challenge 2007.

The core idea is to use explicit social network of each user and semantic annotations to discover, share and recommend interesting information.
We encourage users to annotate and classify (not just tag) interesting sites; their friends can subscribe to folders representing different topics.

If you know social bookmarking services (like del.icio.us) – think about it as a social bookmarking site on steroids and without letting users to get lost in the cloud of tags.

There are two services which have been set up using digi.me platform already:

• http://www.węzełki.pl/ – a service designed for the Polish users
• http://digi.me/ – a service for the international audience

Both services operate feature English and Polish translation. If you register to one – you gain access to the other one as well.

Both services are in the private beta phase at the moment, but I have a number of invitations to this service to distribute. Please reply to this post.

I hear people asking – how are things? I tell ya – things have never been that busy (so you can imagine …).
But it is getting better. There were three projects ahead of me when I was living DERI in December 2008:

finish furnishing our new apartment and move in
submit my PhD thesis
deliver the private beta [...]

Packages ready for shipping Originally uploaded by skruk
The time has come to say goodbye to Ireland and move back to Poland. We have just packed our last 5 years into 40 boxes which will be shipped today.
see http://www.flickr.com/photos/skruk/3111459782/ for the second group of boxes … [...]

Last week I was attending a very interesting presentation on Google Translate.As could expect – statistical approach to translations is not perfect.But I did not dream that Google can translate:

Mazury as Hawaii

Gdańsk as Atlanta

Wawelski Smok as George Washington

Or even decide that it cannot translate at all

(see for yourself – the Polish translation [...]

Weź to k***a zrób
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: agora 25)

A few weeks ago my MacBook Pro battery decided it is too old (1 year !) and needs to retire. After many unexpected drops for power from 40% to 0% in a second I decided it will not heal itself magically.
Colleague of mine suggested I should not buy an Apple replacement (which I should got [...]

HDR is a cool technique – even though some of the photos look artificial/artistic – usually it is worth trying.

You can view a slideshow with it here

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Usually I do not care too much about politics, etc. And in most cases I agree that people have their right to live their own way as long as they do not affect the way other people live.
Call me homophobic – but I cannot stand when I head more and more countries in Europe allow [...]

Just a short note to everybody who is struggling with either (or both) problems:
* since only recenly was unable to use your sourceforge.net hosted subversion account with strange response 403
* was trying to use SCPlugin for MacOSX with https:// repositories without success
The solution to the first problem is pretty simple – you are probably using [...]

One thing I simply love about Mac is the consistency of UI interaction design.
For example, you can drag and drop files – right simple. But you can also use the same paradigm to copy color code from one editor to another. It is much easier than retyping it, or twisting arm to get it [...]