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Calgoo goes free: sync Google Calendar, iCal, and others for free - Download Squad

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:17:44 -0600

Calgoo goes free: sync Google Calendar, iCal, and others for free - Download Squad: Definitely going to check this out!

"One of the advantages of how RDF works is that it is possible to query a dataset without knowing..."

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:41:19 -0600

“One of the advantages of how RDF works is that it is possible to query a dataset without knowing anything about the data set at the outset…an RDF store is ‘self-describing’ - there is no need to know about traditional metadata (schemas) before exploring a data set.”

- S is for Semantics: RDF as self-describing data

Startup, Inc - What You Need to Know Before Starting a Company

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:31:57 -0600

Startup, Inc - What You Need to Know Before Starting a Company

Build Your Own Social Network with SocialGO

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:17:18 -0600

Build Your Own Social Network with SocialGO: SocialGO is a new Ning competitor that is currently testing in private beta.

Firefox and Twitter implementing OAuth

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:16:11 -0600

Firefox and Twitter implementing OAuth:

“Google adopted OAuth for all the Google Data APIs this summer, so there’s really no reason why 3rd party apps should ask you for any Google passwords ever again.

This is all very good news for everyone. Secure user authentication equals greater user trust, which equals developer access to more user data. More developer access to user data equals more innovation. More innovation makes us happy (we love this stuff) and, co-incidentally, leads to more user data. Data portability is good for everyone. Bring it on, Twitter and Firefox!”

Will The Semantic Web Have a Gender? - ReadWriteWeb

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:05:39 -0600

Will The Semantic Web Have a Gender? - ReadWriteWeb

There Must Be Something Between Viral & Obscure… -...

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:01:29 -0600

There Must Be Something Between Viral & Obscure… - ReadWriteWeb

Share This numbers. Is Facebook the Most Popular Social...

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:59:44 -0600

Share This numbers.

Is Facebook the Most Popular Social Bookmarking Service on the Web? - ReadWriteWeb

"Tim Berners-Lee recently said that the success of the Semantic Web should be measured by the..."

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:17:40 -0600

“Tim Berners-Lee recently said that the success of the Semantic Web should be measured by the “level of unexpected reuse”.”

- Semantic Web by Example: Semantic CrunchBase - benjamin nowack’s blog

"The new user experience is about fluidity. The innovations have set the bar for UI high. Users..."

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:16:00 -0600

“The new user experience is about fluidity. The innovations have set the bar for UI high. Users demand simplicity and elegance, wanting to know how to use the product without a manual. They expect the software to work perfectly, for it to be helpful and smart. No company can afford to ignore usability, or it will lose users to someone doing the same product with a better UI.”

- Beyond the API: Why Companies Should Have a Presence on All Major Platforms « Alex Iskold Technology Blog

"As Tim Berners-Lee did in Beijing, Kelly draws parallels between the size of the Web and the size of..."

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:36:23 -0600

“As Tim Berners-Lee did in Beijing, Kelly draws parallels between the size of the Web and the size of the human brain. Kelly suggests that the size of the Web is doubling every year, such that the ‘total processing power… in raw bits’ of the Web will surpass that of humanity by 2040.”

- Kevin Kelly looks to the next 5,000 days of the Web | The Semantic Web | ZDNet.com

"We’re not trying to replace human intelligence”, but “free up” human..."

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:11:19 -0600

““We’re not trying to replace human intelligence”, but “free up” human intelligence. - Nova Spivack”

- Can Semantic Web capture nuances?

Live Blogging Future of the Web Debate - ReadWriteWeb

Firefox 3 To Be Released On June 17th - ReadWriteWeb

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:05:34 -0600

Firefox 3 To Be Released On June 17th - ReadWriteWeb:

Things I’m most excited about…

One-click bookmarking (cuz I do a lot of bookmarking)
Tags for bookmarks - this one is my favorite! mmmmmm….yeah….tags for bookmarks…that’s gooood.

Want to Go Shopping? Break Out Your Mobile Phone - ReadWriteWeb

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:57:06 -0600

Want to Go Shopping? Break Out Your Mobile Phone - ReadWriteWeb: Great article on m-commerce with stats indicating it’s still in its infancy, but that this is a trend that’s about to take off.

WorldWide Science

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:46:38 -0600

WorldWideScience: Like Google for Deep Web Science - ReadWriteWeb

Need to get access to real scientific data but having trouble finding any relevant search results in Google? That could be because a lot of the science and technology documents on the web aren’t typically indexed by major search engines. They’re a part of the “deep web,” the repository of web pages usually generated by database-driven sites that search engines’ spiders can’t access. One resource to help open up the deep web for scientific research is WorldWideScience. This portal allows you to query more than 200 million documents not typically indexed by today’s search engines.

Brands + Amplification = Influence

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:24:01 -0600

Brands + Amplification = Influence:

markbean:

“1. Blogs are only effective if you already have a brand. People come here, or go read Seth Godin, or Marshall Goldsmith, or Jeffrey Gitomer, or David Meister, because we’re all well…

Tagging and the Semantic Web

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:15:27 -0600

Here is a short list of limitations which I feel the Semantic Web web will address:

- Tags do not provide enough meaningful metadata to make meaningful comparisons

- More information is needed besides their origin - Tags are essentially a full text search mechanism, although faceting helps

- Need more relationships between tags and the objects they pertain to

The solution, tags as objects

Allowing users to tag an object with another object we can make extremely interesting comparisons; discerning a lot more information about the original object becomes simple and accurate. With this type of interrelationship we can pivot through the data like never before, not with full text search but object graph linkages that machines and humans can understand.

Tagging in the Semantic Web | John Clarke Mills’ Blog

rocketjumper: Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial...

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:08:12 -0600

rocketjumper:

Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program ‘Visio’, though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams. It currently has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of SVG to draw the shape.

Distributed/Decentralized microblogging (Twitter) possible - The...

Thu, 15 May 2008 01:22:31 -0600

Distributed/Decentralized microblogging (Twitter) possible -

The prototype uses FOAF and SIOC to model microbloggers, their properties, account and service information, and the microblog updates that users create. A multitude of publishing services can ping one or a set of aggregating servers as selected by each user, and it is important to note that users retain control of their own data through self hosting.

John Breslin’s Blog - Cloudlands

Coming Soon: A Web-Wide Social Network?

Mon, 12 May 2008 22:39:36 -0600

Coming Soon: A Web-Wide Social Network?: Three announcements, all within a week of each other, were indicative of the same trend: that the future of online social networking doesn’t live within a single entity’s walls but instead permeates the web.