Monthly Archives: May 2009

spam, not what’s for lunch

robinna/ May 29, 2009/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

According to the latest report from Symantec’s MessageLabs, spam level is over 90% again (90.4%, to be precise), which means that one 9 out of 10 e-mails are spam. This is a huge increase compared to February, when the spam level was at 73.3%, and yes, it spells more trouble for social networks, which have recently been dealing with an

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SouthEast LinuxFest

robinna/ May 19, 2009/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

SouthEast LinuxFest is in Clemson, SC on Saturday, June 13th. Free IT Athens will have a table in the exhibit hall alongside many other organizations such as Red Hat, Open Street Map, and various user groups. There is also a great selection of talks scheduled for throughout the day. One of our founders, Semmy Purewal, ispresenting a session about “Building

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Quick project update

robinna/ May 4, 2009/ software, my projects/ 0 comments

Quick project update: I’m finishing up the Faculty Learning Committee on Emerging Technologies and I’ve accepted to be a member of the FLC for 2010 on Visual Learning (The Shift to Visual). I am really excited about that and hope that my group can make a small movie about visual learning (hint). In the past 3 months l’ve done presentations

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the next google?

robinna/ May 1, 2009/ semantic web, Search engines/browsers, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

How many times are we going to hear, “google killer” or the “next google” I wonder? Anyhow, here is another one… the behind the scenes video is kind of cool. I’ve requested a guest pass/invite, so we’ll see if I get to play around with it before it goes live. “Wolfram Alpha, a new “computational knowledge engine” based on the

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