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February 28, 2005

Collaborative Bookmarks

What happens when you share your bookmarks along with tagging? Something quite interesting, although a little primitive. Check out http://del.icio.us/. Gets to be quite addictive - some of my bookmarks are here - http://del.icio.us/ralphtq. 

An idea just waiting to blossom into a semantic web application.

del.icio.us was discovered in an article in BusinessWeek Online. See also an article in the Wall Street Journal on 'tagging'.

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February 23, 2005

OWL News

XML Schema Types in OWL and RDF, some recent postings:

  1. Danny Ayers
  2. W3C

A new mailing list,  with an RSS feed, has been announced at W3C for tools and techniques for using the OWL Language.

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RDF for XMLers

Edd Dumbill on "Choosing XML or RDF"

Also Semantic Web One-On-One

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Bringing art and technology together

Has always interested me.

I just got this wonderful link from the RSS feed: Semantic Web Interest Group IRC Scratchpad - soundtoys.net

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February 14, 2005

Are blogs changing the web?

I have been looking at the use of RSS and blogs recently. What I am seeing is a shift in how we might use the web. Too soon to call this one small step towards the semantic web - but maybe not.  I am already having ideas on how to put more semantics behind blogs and RSS.

See also:

UK Sunday Time January 30th article: "All your web wishes at one click"

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February 13, 2005

Beyond Semantics?

Well not really but some people figure out how this works faster than others. Check out this so-called "ESP" experiment: The Clifford Pickover.

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Good Pickings from Semantic Postings

Planet RDF (RSS), famous for the line "It's triples all the way down", had this story on semantic technology toolkits: "Libraries for the Semantic Web"  mentioning  Chris Bizer and Daniel Westphal's publication of a report on tools and componentry.

Another posting I liked at Planet RDF was this article on mSpace entitled "Imagine Google on iTunes". A good pointer to where things are going.

Need a reason to be in Greece? Check out the workshop on "scripting for the semantic web posted at lamda-the-ultimate.org and happening at the end of May 2005.

W3C news on talks on semantic technology is available as an RSS feed.

Will Ware: The Semantic Web and Automated Reasoning

Richard Smith: More Semantic Web

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Quotes I am trying to trace

As a consultant and conference attendee I have met many interesting people. There have been some great conversations and I have collected some good quotes, not always remembering who said them first.

At OOPSLA one year who was it that said "Anything you can do I can do meta"?

At some XML conference someone said "All marked up and no where to go.".

I'd love to know who the originators were.

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February 12, 2005

Finally decided to get into RSS Blogs

My colleagues at TopQuadrant and elsewhere are doing it. There is a sudden increase in RDF adoption over the last months. So why not make a start I thought. Having switched to FireFox, reading blogs has become a more regular habit. I'm subscribed to a number of Semantic Web and Semantic Technology sites and will list these in a later post . Maybe do a "best postings" posting.

A Semantic Blog is what I really want.  If there can be SemanticWikis why not Semantic Blogs?

By the way I use Ward's Wiki from time to time to contribute to the System Envisioning pages.

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