Yay! After months of pushing ideas, planning the concept and just being lazy as usual, the work on the Topify web site has finally kicked off “for real”. It’s not a lot yet, but we have a design and some good ideas, mostly aiming towards being user-friendly, intuitive and easily usable. The technical stuff is [...]
I apologize for not being able to write a lot these last few weeks. I’ve been mostly busy working on a chapter about the theory of public opinion for my final thesis. This was a very enlightening experience, since it opened my eyes on the different ways one can take when measuring the “voix [...]
Just a couple of weeks ago I was trying to set things straight in the rather troublesome relationship between tags and topics. The bottom line was that tags are just the same words we use in the content and are hence just as arbitrary and hard to generalize as the content itself. No perfect [...]
Since the birth of the Internet, we are being told that in order to build a successful web site, one maxim has to be strictly followed: “Content is King”. It doesn’t matter, what the site is about or who is the target audience, if it doesn’t have any content, well, then it’s just some [...]
This is a challenging question that comes up all the time in our everyday life. This includes anything from the “normal” face-to-face communication when two people meet on the street to blog entries and instant messages or tweets on the Web. As a matter of fact, this is the main topic of a great [...]
I think I don’t have to explain to anyone what tags are, or? But to make sure, Wikipedia states that tags allow anyone on the Web to annotate and categorize content and then roam around and discover similarly tagged content. Sounds like a blast to a lot of people, all one has to do [...]
Hello and welcome to the official blog of Topify!
What is Topify you ask? No? Well, we’ll tell you anyway. Topify is a project aiming to extract and provide you with the intrinsic subject for all those news articles and blog posts that appear en masse everyday on the Web. This problem occurred to me [...]
