Re: DBpedia+Spotlight accepted @ Google Summer of Code 2013

While there are privacy concerns, which one hopes a strong government 
will keep in check, why was your first criticism 'multi billion dollar'?

I welcome the interest in the combination of graph knowledge with text 
analysis by big, successful companies - it vindicates the effort my 
friends and colleagues have put into this area over the last decade.

Barry



On 11/04/13 09:24, Neil McNaughton wrote:
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> Hello all,
>
> There is something unseemly about the way academia regards acceptance 
> by Google as an accolade. This, from the multi billion company that 
> spies on individuals, sniffing wifi passwords and gaming search to its 
> own "do no evil" ends. What is the world coming to I ask?
>
> Neil McNaughton
>
> Editor, Oil IT Journal (www.oilit.com <http://www.oilit.com/>)
>
>
>
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> *From:*Dimitris Kontokostas 
> [mailto:kontokostas@informatik.uni-leipzig.de]
> *Sent:* 11 April 2013 09:04
> *To:* semantic-web@w3.org; Linked Data community
> *Subject:* DBpedia+Spotlight accepted @ Google Summer of Code 2013
>
> [Apologies for cross-posting]
>
> Dear fellow DBpedians,
>
> I am very excited to announce that DBpedia and DBpedia Spotlight have 
> again been been selected for the Google Summer of Code 2013!!!
>
> If you know energetic students (BSc,MSc,PhD) interested in working 
> with DBpedia, text processing, and semantics, please encourage them to 
> apply!
>
> More details can also be found on the blog post here:
> http://blog.dbpedia.org/2013/04/10/dbpediaspotlight-accepted-google-summer-of-code-2013/
>
> On behalf of the DBpedia GSoC team,
> Dimitris Kontokostas
>
> -- 
> Dimitris Kontokostas
> Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
> Research Group: http://aksw.org
> Homepage:http://aksw.org/DimitrisKontokostas
>