The location of WWW2014 conference was selected and announced this afternoon. WWW2014 will be held in Seoul, South Korea in April of 2014.

Our final keynote speaker, Jon Kleinberg presented his research about the how information flows through populations on the Internet. In his research, Kleinberg examined what makes certain quotes and text on the internet memorable and attempted to predict what kind of quotes will go viral. He mentioned http://memetracker.org/ as a visualizing tool for trending phrases and words thorugh the web.

“Mapping out social networks quantitatively is a new concept,” explained Kleinberg. The web is powered by feed back loops, according to Kleinberg, the web knows you better than you know yourself. If you would like to learn more, check out his paper on the subject: http://www.pnas.org/content/109/16/5962

The conference best paper award was granted to “No Country for Old Members: User Lifecycle and Linguist Change in Online Communities”, by Stanford University members Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Robert West, Dan Jurafsky, Jure Leskovec, Christopher Potts. You may find it here: http://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/language-www13.pdf

Other highlights:

- Data Visualization Panel: Fernada Viegas and Martin Wattenberg from Google explained the functions of Google+ Ripples: http://www2013.org/proceedings/p1389.pdf; Jennifer Fernquist and Ed H. Chi, also Google members, talked about the Perception and Understanding of Social Annotations in Web Search: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38116.html

-CRM Panel: can the lack of standardization cause problems with interoperability? Check out this: https://wiki.softwarelivre.org/pub/Main/DeiviKuhn/Html5_and_DRM.pdf and this:http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/05/perspectives_on_encrypted_medi.html

We would like to thank all the presenters and participants. You can check out slides, papers and more from the conference are available on the following websites:

Slides: http://eventifier.co/event/www2013/

Papers: http://www2013.org/papers/

Highlights from day 5: https://storify.com/gabiagustini/www2013-conference-day-5

Highlights from day 4: https://storify.com/gabiagustini/www2013-conference-day-4

Highlights from day 3: https://storify.com/gabiagustini/www2013-conference-3rd-day

Highlights from day 2: https://storify.com/gabiagustini/www2013-conference-2nd-day-1

Highlights from day 1: https://storify.com/gabiagustini/www-conference-1st-day

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http://www2014.kr/newsletter/survery/ 

The Keynote session was followed by a discussion panel about Net Neutrality and Internet Freedom, conducting by Tim Berners-Lee and deputy Alessandro Molon, representative from the Marco Civil da Internet project. Currently, the project is expected to be voted on in Congress, but is struggling due to resistance from internet providers. For Berners-Lee, the Marco Civil da Internet puts Brazil in the leading position in terms of web legislation. It highlights that neutrality of the internet needs to be respected as human rights and it should be the fight of Brazilian citizens to ensure that this legislation succeeds.

Other highlights from the day:

Quora

The panel Wisdom in the Social Crowd: an Analysis of Quora presented results of a detailed analysis of Quora using measurements.

FreeNet

“On line, collaborative, open Platforms for video on the web” was a panel about a global collaborative film project  focused on discuss internet freedom and net neutrality.

Google+

The panel Google+ or Google-: Dissecting the Evolution of the New OSN in its First Year presented a detailed characterization of G+ based on large scale measurements.

Highlights from the day on Storify: https://storify.com/gabiagustini/www2013-conference-day-4

In the sequence, keynote speaker Luis Von Ahn captivated the audience with his presentation focused on his projects reCaptcha and Duolingo. Recognizing inequality in the education system, Duolingo was inspired by the demand for affordable, accessible language education. “Over 1.2 billion people want to learn a language… not because they want to travel, but because they want to be able to get better jobs and better their lives.” Because you need money in order to learn a language  (classes or buy a language program), Von Ahn is providing a bridge for this gap with Duolingo by making students learning power profitable through translation of web content.

While Von Ahn is not a linguist or a language expert, he is an expert in productivity. Unconcerned with theories and teaching methods, he uses big data from his user base to improve language education methods by testing new methods on samples from his millions of users and comparing them with other methods.  Vohn Ahn offered also advice to entrepreneurs about building successful businesses on the web. His strategy is to always ensure that his services on Duolingo are free, “I’m never going to charge the users” he warned his investors before shaking hands and closing the deal.

More highlights of the day:

- Data Visualization

Fernanda Viegas, from Google, showed projects

Map of Youtube Trends and Wind Map, which make a visualization of data of wind patterns in a precise and artistic form.

- eGov and Open Data

Pierre Andrews presented his project on Parliamentary Transparency, Cidadão Automático. Rodrigo Bandeira presented his Cidade Democrática project, and discusses ways to make people engage with their governments. And Vagner Diniz from w3c brazil talked about open data for development (read more: http://www.od4d.org/2012/10/10/w3c-brazil-launches-open-data-portal-in-latin-america/)

- Entrepreneurship

The Cachaça Map exhibited their web project of production of content about the production of alcohol in Brazil. (learn more about the project from this post.

Remember, the papers from the presenters at the conference are compiled here: http://www2013.org/papers/ and you can check the best moments on the social network channels on Storify: http://storify.com/gabiagustini/www2013-conference-3rd-day

All of the content on the Cachaça Map website is licensed on Creative Commons 3.0, including the texts, videos and the template made in WordPress can be distributed and remixed. Beyond the site, the project has organized meetings for cachaça tastings, complete with food that uses cachaça as an ingredient, and also has released a CD by a Brazilian group, made exclusively to be listened to while cachaça tasting.

Felipe Januzzi, co-creator of the Map, will present the project on the Panel with Entrepeneurs on the Web – Making business in Brazil the Challenge, alongside Fábio Seixas, from Camiseteria (T-shirt e-commerce that has existed in Brazil for 10 yeas) and Edson Mackeenzy, from Videolog (a video sharing website). The Panel will take place at 17h in Room Alhambra I.

“French people have champagne, Mexicans have Tequila, Scotch have whisky and Russians have vodka. Cachaça is the beverage that represents the Brazilian culture and history” 

 

Tim Berners-Lee Meets Students
Fill this form to attend the meeting with Tim Berners-Lee and the students on Wednseday afternoon. Only registered attendees will be accepted to access the room. Limited Places. Only students with a document that prove the student status will be alowed to enter in the room. In case you do not register previously, entrance will be accepted if seats are available.
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Fill this form to attend the meeting with Tim Berners-Lee and the students on Wednseday afternoon. Only registered attendees will be accepted to access the room. Limited Places. Only students with a document that prove the student status will be alowed to enter in the room. In case you do not register previously, entrance will be accepted if seats are available.

Luis von Ahn meets entrepeneurs
On Wednesday, at 15:00pm our Keynote Speaker Luis von Ahn will meet entrepreneurs to give some tips and held a conversation on how to be a young innovator in business.
This activity needs a previous registration. Use the form below to register. In case you do not register previously, entrance will be accepted if seats are available.
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Make sure to check our networks to follow presentations and events in real time and also to keep updated on the latest information on schedule changes and announcements through our Facebook page, and the #www2013 hashtag on Twitter and instagram. Don’t forget to contribute your own posts to the #www2013 hashtag as well!

The WWW2013 Conference also updates Storify, with a summary of the days events and highlights some of the interesting tweets from the days events.

To access presentation slides, consult the WWW2013 page on Eventifier.

Highlights from Day Two of the WWW2013

LDOW2013: Linked Data on the Web Workshop: http://www.slideshare.net/MielSande/ldow2013-rawbase-git-for-triples

The CSS Challenge: http://www2013.org/2013/05/14/css-challenge-see-the-results/

On Real-Time Analysis and Mining of Social Streams – RAMSS 2013: https://speakerdeck.com/gdfm/samoa-a-platform-for-mining-big-data-streams

Tomorrow’s schedule is available on: http://www2013.org/dias/15052013/

Leonardo Lima
http://cdpn.io/xjAga

Richard Duchatsch Johansen
http://ridjohansen.site44.com/css_challenge/

Thiago Dini
http://thiagodini.com/experimentos/chess-table-css.html

Vanessa Me Tonini
http://www.vanessametonini.com.br/chess/