EntityCube: a new Microsft search summarization experiment

As Microsoft states "EntityCube is an entity search and summarization engine, which automatically summarizes the Web for the long tail, not just celebrities! The Chinese name of the project is called Renlifang."

EntityCube is an entity search and summarization system that efficiently generates summaries of Web entities from billions of crawled Web pages. The summarized information is used to build an object-level search engine about people, locations, and organizations and explore their relationships.

Specifically, EntityCube automatically generates:

• A biography page for a person.
• A social-network graph for a person.
• A shortest-relationship path between two people.
• All titles of a person that are found on the Web.

Bulgaria Tax Authority Eyes Blog Advertising Revenues

Bulgarian bloggers are feeling the head because of a letter in which the head of NAP (Bulgaria's Tax Authority) explains how internet advertising should be taxed, local news portal news.bg quotes the National Radio (BNR).

Writing personal blogs has been getting more and more popular recently and can be done completely free. The question is what happens when companies decide to advertise in popular blogs.

Within the last several days Bulgarian Internet space was filled with the rumor that maintaining a website is a professional activity and thus subject social security payments.

To be updated...

My Take on the Bulgarian Translation of the New Harry Potter Movie

The new Harry Potter movie's translation to Bulgarian is very strange to me still, particularly the translation of "half blood" which in Bulgarian sounds like "impure blood".