So, this is a quick description:

• Primergy RX300S3
• 2 × Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5355 @ 2.66GHz
• 4GB RAM
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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First, an announcement: the development of the new version of Watson, that will replace the crapy demo on the website and run on our fabulous new powerful server (on which Laurian is still supposed to write a blog entry), is going well. Concretely, a new, more extensive crawl have been realized, analyzed and stored. We spent quite a long time in looking at the collected data and lots of interesting conclusions came out, which will be described in later posts. (We expect to have a new, nicer interface to demo at ESWC, for the presentation of the poster, in two weeks.)

Then, still excited by all the new stuff we discovered in the collected semantic documents, I read Bob DuCharme's article Finding useful RDF data on the web, about rdfdata.org, a "central list" of RDF data started in 2004. From the title that looks like a slogan for us, to the core message (finding and managing online RDF data becomes difficult), and to the final conclusion (let's do it yourself), the whole article appears to me as a desperate call: "Watson, I need you!" (Remark the subtle insertion of a cultural reference here).

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Just a quick post to say that, after a blog, an Ajax interface, Watson is now an active Twitter user. We are even thinking of having automatic reports of the status of Watson in Twitter.

OK, there are better achievement that are expected from us, but now if you want to know what Watson is doing, you just need to go to http://twitter.com/watson_swg


(this has been done specialy for Enrico... you now don't even need to cross the corridor to monitor the work on Watson ;-) )

Last week, the review meeting of the neon project have taken place in KMi. In addition to partly explaining my complete absence on this blog recently (not that anybody else is actually present anyway), it was also a great opportunity to discuss with lots of people having the interesting attribute to be interested in Watson. So this time, I will not speak about the server... not a word... not even a tag! I prefer to look a bit more forward and to list some of these ongoing, planned, and envisaged collaborations and system integrations that were mentionned, discussed, or even organized last week....

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