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Google Your Shared Stuff: social link sharing service

Here's the example that I set up for my last blog post.

I don't see much originality over del.icio.us. Yet another namespace for all your tagging pleasure.

It's explained more fully at Google Blogscoped.

The semantic Web enabled by new software technologies

One of the verbs Merlin Mann talks about in dealing with incoming information is "Delegate." The goal is to take 3 actions for every single attempt at reorganizing or reclassifying an item to store and look at later.

It would be great to have a secretary who could be hand to accept these delegated items. But he is how the Economist reports on new gains in achieving a semantic Web:

You can, however, delegate some things. At least, you can if you are Rael Dornfest, a technologist and entrepreneur from Portland, Oregon. When Mr Dornfest e-mails his business partners about meetings and interesting tidbits worth archiving, he copies the e-mail to his assistant, Sandy. Though she cannot yet organise his evenings in foreign cities, she can run his diary. She also runs his address book and forwards reminders from his wife to his mobile phone without being asked.

Sandy is really a bot.

The article mentions a trio of new technologies that will empower these bots: "the Resource Description Framework (RDF), the Web Ontology Language (OWL), and the SPARQL query language. Together, they allow computers to group objects and their features—from prices and measurements to locations and user ratings—into meaningful relationships and hierarchies, by analysing their associated metadata."



Improving the internet | The web: some antics | Economist.com

Technorati Tags: RDF, OWL, SPARQL, semantic Web, Merlin Mann

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Why RSS and Folksonomies Are Becoming So Big

This post by Jenny the Shifted Librarian once again touts the elegance of RSS in stripping away such undesireables as comment spam, trackback spam, etc., by way of an essay by Kevin Hale.

This might just be a matter of this sector waiting to be discovered by the spammer so that they can create their tag spam. And, I find it very difficult to accept the metaphor of Google as a library. It's that type of egalitarian collective that doesn't ensure authority on any particular subject. Just because many people are linking (or appear to link via the spammers), doesn't guarantee that the destination information is reliable.