In the NoTube project, we are exploring the use of Semantic Web technology in Television and Web-TV scenarios. By making use of richer and linked descriptions of content and users, we hope to help users better find (and annotate, tag, cross-link etc.) content that is interesting to them. The growing amount of linked RDF data [...]
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Linked TV (part 1): Why APIs and identifiers matter
Also posted in Essays, FOAF, Jabber/XMPP, Project ideas, RSS/Atom, SocialWeb, Technology, Web Technology, coding, ggg, tv 1 Comment
Mirrors and Prisms: robust site-specific browsers
Mozilla (amongst others, see Chris Messina’s writeup of the trend, also Matt’s) have been exploring site-specific browsers through their Prism project. These combine aspects of the Web and Desktop environments, allowing you to have a desktop app tuned for browsing just one specific Web site. Prism is an application which, when run, will generate new [...]
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Twitter Iran RT chaos
From Twitter in the last few minutes, a chaos of echo’d posts about army moves. Just a few excerpts here by copy/paste, mostly without the all-important timestamps. Without tools to trace reports to their source, to claims about their source from credible intermediaries, or evidence, this isn’t directly useful. Even grassroots journalists needs evidence. I [...]
Also posted in Conspiracy Theory, FOAF, Politics, Project ideas, SKOS, The Web at War, ggg, openid, privacy Tagged identica, iran, iranelection, journalism, tehran, twitter, witness 3 Comments
Elsevier Oopsie
Elsevier published 6 fake journals! (via Open Access News). See also Peter Murray-Rust on Trust in scientific publishing.
The House that Jack Built
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FOAF super-connectivity daydreams from 2002.
“indirectly [...]
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Cross-browsing and RDF
Cross-browsing and RDF
While cross-searching has been described and demonstrated through this paper and associated work, the problem of cross-browsing a selection of subject gateways has not been addressed. Many gateway users prefer to browse, rather than search. Though browsing usually takes longer than searching, it can be more thorough, as it is not dependent on [...]
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Opening and closing like flowers (social platform roundupathon)
Closing some tabs…
Stephen Fry writing on ’social network’ sites back in January (also in the Guardian):
…what an irony! For what is this much-trumpeted social networking but an escape back into that world of the closed online service of 15 or 20 years ago? Is it part of some deep human instinct that we take [...]
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