This article outlines the process involved in transforming the del.icio.us user API XML document into an HTML fragment. Because the XSLT processor is compiled, and therefore runs significantly faster than interpreted Javascript in the browser, I push as m
“Are you my friend? Yes or no?” This question, while fundamentally odd, is a key component of social network sites. Participants must select who on the system they deem to be ‘Friends.’ Their choice is publicly displayed for all to see and becomes
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today
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Some folks want to create authoritative sources so that they don’t have to think about things…don’t have to consider the source and the context of life. Down with Wikipedia because it’s not authoritative! Down with Digg because it is gamed! Down w
The hacker mind-set is not confined to this software-hacker culture. There are people who apply the hacker attitude to other things, like electronics or music — actually, you can find it at the highest levels of any science or art. Software hackers reco
We need solutions that can help the many people whose terms and vocabulary are left out of the taxonomy... The simple idea that people’s actions model meaning better than a directory (even a flexible directory) is a critical step forward in thinking ab
Clickable article giving an overview of history, distinctions and definitions, potential uses, current manifestations, and permutations of this thing called (conveniently, but not accurately) 'Web 2.0.'
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It’s now only a few days until 2007, and a good time for the yearly prediction posts to start rolling out - including one from Mashable. To add a more interesting spin, we’ll throw in a mini-game of blog tag - a few people “tagged” at the end of t
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some time now, I’ve wanted to increase my understanding of microformats. If you’re unfamilar with the term or want to understand the basic purpose of this technology better, I suggest reading Phil Windley’s Microformats: Paving the Cowpaths. I read
Technorati has been a strong supporter of open microformats standards for quite some time. We launched the first implementation that indexes and searches posts tagged with rel-tag. We support XOXO for lists and outlines throughout the site, our member's f
microformats are, just as importantly, defined by what they are not: not a new language; not infinitely extensible and open-ended; not an attempt to get everyone to change their behavior and rewrite their tools; not a whole new approach that throw
Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a markup language for publishing and sharing data using ontologies on the Internet. OWL is a vocabulary extension of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and is derived from the DAML+OIL Web Ontology Language (see also D
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The Role of Semantic Web in Web 2.0: Partner or Follower? Currently, the web phenomenon that is driving the best developers and captivating the best entrepreneurs is Web 2.0. Web 2.0 encompasses some of today's most exciting web-based applications: mas
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Data on the Semantic Web is semi-structured and does not follow one fixed schema. Faceted browsing is a natural technique for navigating such data, partitioning the information space into orthogonal conceptual dimensions. Current faceted interfaces are ma
Not long after he invented and unleashed the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee realized that the limit to the effectiveness of the World Wide Web would be that while billions of documents could be linked and indexed, they relied on human interpretation to d
[Sample clip]: For two systems to communicate they must commit to a common ontology. It doesn't matter how elegant or clever your ontology is, if no one else shares it, you don't participate in anything broader than your own ontology...
Downloadable articles and audio files from the 2006 Semantic Technology Conference held in San Jose, CA. Material is geared toward enterprise and business use of semantic web technologies, although not limited to that topic.
From legacy relational databases to the semantic web, the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (CATCM), where over 70 legacy relational databases are semantically interconnected by an ontology with over 70 classes and 800 properties, providing in
This diagram depicts a spectrum of information sharing capabilities. Moving from lower right to upper left of the diagram, we see that more expressive forms of metadata and semantic modeling encompass the simpler forms, and extend their capabilities. From
The Semantic Web, where machines are able to read the contents of documents as readily as people can, now has all the standards and technologies it needs to succeed, according to W3C director Tim Berners-Lee. Speaking at the World Wide Web 2006 conferen
Business management, government management, and military defense management...This illustration charts uses of the predicted "semantic web" by enterprise and government.
The goal of the SWS Challenge is to develop a common understanding of various technologies intended to facilitate the automation of mediation, choreography and discovery for Web Services using semantic annotations. The intent of this challenge is to explo
The challenge that the Yahoos and Microsofts of the world have is that they are still beholden to the older corporate model of the world, and tend to denigrate their user generated content as being so much fluff. Thus when the Web 2.0 explosion occurred,
Semantic technologies have become central to a broad range of research and development initiatives. This diagram visualizes the intersections of four major development themes in the semantic wave: networking (e.g., semantic web, grid & p2p), content (e.g.
Topics include: Merging Results from Independent SPARQL Queries, Home from SWAP2006, DBin for Power Users to Create Discussion Groups, Use of URIs for Naming, Another Cool Thing About GRDDL, XQuery and RDF, Dark Side of the Semantic Web, CSS in RDF+, QOT