Knowledge has become social (surprise !)

Snip from Macro Principles
Even if it may seem obvious, this is a pretty deep MP. I was reminded of by this presentation of David Weinberger. What made me notice and reflect was two pieces.
First, his mailing-list. You subscribe to lots of mailing-lists. On each, there’s at least one true expert, even the leading one, who [...]

LinkedIn’s Semantic Technology Initiatives

LinkedIn’s Semantic Technology Initiatives

Written by Scott Koegler

I recently spoke with Steve Ganz, LinkedIn’s Principal Web Developer, about the role of semantic technologies in LinkedIn’s strategy.

SR: Steve, I’ve seen some press releases recently about how LinkedIn is using semantic technologies as part of its strategy. When did this start?
Ganz: LinkedIn has [...]

Semantikos: Structured Information

Reuters Wants The World To Be Tagged
Written by Alex Iskold /

As Richard MacManus recently predicted, in 2008 we’ll witness the rise of semantic web services. From the native support for Microformats in Firefox 3, to the New York Times’ utilization of rich headers metadata, to this week’s release of the Social Graph API by Google, [...]

Wide-Open Semantic Space

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008  http://blog.semantichacker.com/?cat=3
TextWise Semantic Signatures® are based on vector spaces with thousands of dimensions, each corresponding to a single concept in some domain of interest. We use a special semantic dictionary to map the content of a given text document into a point within that conceptual space; and one can then gauge the [...]

Microformats University: 100+ Articles and Resources

Microformats University: 100+ Articles and Resources
By Jessica Hupp
Microformats are small formatting pieces designed to make your data easier to read by both users and software. Although their use is not widespread, it’s important that every web developer becomes familiar with them, as they’re sure to be an integral part of the web’s future. Because of [...]

Makes you think!

Shift Happens!

Thinking about data

Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to solve simpler problems first by adapting to current behaviors and usage patterns (e.g. XHTML, blogging).
microformats are:

a way of thinking about data
design [...]

Can I have a quick overview on what the semantic web is? … umm, Ok.

A short introduction to the semantic web. All source material is on the Digital Bazaar wiki: http://wiki.digitalbazaar.com/en/semantic-web-intro