The Japanese portal / search engine goo, have gone live with their Shindig-based OpenSocial container. See example user page, goo labs site, developer’s kitchen and documentation (in Japanese). See also announcement from Eiji Kitamura on the shindig (Apache opensocial) list.
From the TAG list: XML Schemas is like using a Swiss Army knife to cook with. Most Asian kitchens get by with a handful of simple tools: chopsticks, hatchet, a good knife, perhaps even a spoon. But the logic of the XSD WG is “Oh, the French need to make quenelles, we must have a [...]
Elsevier published 6 fake journals! (via Open Access News). See also Peter Murray-Rust on Trust in scientific publishing.
Busy sysadmin week. The main FOAF site is back, now hosted on Amazon EC2. Thanks to Stephane Corlosquet for all the time he spent fixing up the Drupal installation, after the recent server compromise. I’ve also moved over danbri.org (well, DNS is propagating), and migrated my blog into a completely fresh WordPress installation. The FOAF namespace [...]