The Internet is beginning a fundamental transition into the broadband, commercial information superhighway of the future. Today, the Internet offers immediate opportunities for commercial applications by connecting millions of PC, Macintosh and workstation users with businesses and organizations around the world. Tomorrow, as network capabilities and performance increase, this global link will deliver interactive services, [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
(Back to) The Future of Interactive Media
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Obama
I was really very impressed by Obama’s speech this week. And somewhat suprised to hear a major US politician speak on complex, subtle issues in thoughtful, nuanced terms. For non USAmericans, I think it’s often hard to empathise with US-style patriotism; in particular, the seeming impossibility of seeing the US as anything other than a [...]
Language Expertise in FOAF: Speaks, Reads, Writes revisited
Stephanie Booth asks:
I vaguely remember somebody telling me about some emerging “standard” (too big a word) for encoding language skills. Or was it a dream?
That would’ve been me, showing markup from the FOAFX beta from Paola Di Maio and friends, which explores the extension of FOAF with expertise information. This is part of the ExpertFinder [...]
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