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Big data: seeing the forest and the trees

Sherrilynne Starkie

You can see the forest and the trees in big data, according to Nora Young , the Canadian author and the host of CBC Radio One’s Spark, in her opening keynote at last week’s Fireworks Factory conference held on Galiano Island, British Columbia. Canada (Photo credit: Wikipedia). It’s the sum of all our interactions in the world.

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Why SEOs Need to Pay Attention to Freebase

Bill Hartzer

And Freebase, as well as Wikipedia and a host of other sources, make up the Knowledge Graph. Let’s take, for example, a search for my name, Bill Hartzer, over at Bing.com: Click on the image above to see a larger version of it. Most likely, because of the Wikipedia requirements of citations, etc.,

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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

Michael Geist (Photo credit: Wikipedia). The new law provides a safe harbour to those who create and also those who host that content, for example.”. Lobbyists from the film, music and video games industries even hosted a fund-raising dinner for Bulte in advance of the election.

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Can I Use This Photo on Social Media? Understanding Image Copyright

Hootsuite

Here’s an example. This example is popular with intellectual property lawyers , who use it to show that copyright ownership is not always as obvious as it seems. Several sites take advantage of these permissions, including Wikipedia, YouTube, TED, and Flickr. According to the treaty (and Canadian and U.S.

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The Perfect Family Tree

Stay N' Alive

There could be discussion pages for each individual similar to wikipedia for any disagreements. It should be 100% open (perhaps with privacy controls just for living individuals - still need to work that one out, but we already have many examples to learn from). Each "owner" should own an additional "family tree" index.

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Grow Your Wiki

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Showing the example of how to work agendas through a wiki vs. email! Stewart Mader compares organizational and public wikis (Wikipedia vs. enterprise wiki), offers several examples of organizations actively using wikis today, and outlines the main business drivers and use cases inside organizations. White House. wiki pilot.

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Effective collaboration with wikis | DavePress

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Other issues include whether you want to host it yourself or are happy for the content to be sat on someone else’s server, and whether you need to restrict access. On the first point, by and large hosted wikis are far easier to use and more functionally rich than those which you manage yourself. Get the content on the wiki.

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