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Tim Berners-Lee: From World Wide Web to Giant Global Graph: Tim Berners-Lee: From World Wide Web to Giant Global GraphSemantic WebTim Berners-Lee has mentioned the Semantic Web for quite some time. However, his definition of Giant Global Graph is interesting. It combines the Semantic Web with the Social Graph. What happens though when the Social Graph...; Tags: Giant Global Graph, FOAF, Tim Berners-Lee, Semantic Web, WWW; Discussion threads 2007-11-22
Tim Berners-Lee: From World Wide Web to Giant Global Graph: Updated: On this Thanksgiving morning in the U.S., the Facebook Beacon storm continues to rage Techmeme. It's simply growing pains for the social graph. In fact, the social graph which Mark Zuckerberg defines as the network of connections between people reached a new stage of legitimacy or recognition today with...; Tags: Social Networking, Web, Graph, Tim Berners-Lee, Site, WWW, FOAF, Semantic Web, Channel Management, RDF, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-11-22
Will social databases give way to social protocols?: Will social databases give way to social protocols?You forgot FOAFAt least some of what you are proposing can be accomplished using the XML/RDF based FOAF protocol - see http://www.foaf-project.org/Your information is your IP......I've always felt that the data being collected by marketing companies about you and your consumer habits is...; Tags: RDF, XML, Storage, FOAF, database; Discussion threads 2005-03-04

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News to know: Microsoft-Yahoo talks (again); OLPC; Gmail themes; Firefox 3.0: Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microsoft: We don't have to buy Yahoo outright; Is it joint venture time? Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft and Yahoo: A new deal in the works? BoomTown: Microsoft to Buy Just Yahoo's Search Business? NYT: In Reversal, Microsoft Proposes...; Tags: Google Gmail, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-19
Tom Ilube ponders 'social verification' with FOAF: Writing today in the latest issue of Nodalities Magazine, Garlik CEO Tom Ilube tackles the increasingly fraught subject of Identity Theft before moving past it to consider notions of 'social verification.' Tom's company, Garlik, offers a product called DataPatrol that helps UK consumers track information about themselves...; Tags: Tom Ilube, QDOS, Social Networking, Semantic Web, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-16

Guest post: Introducing the Open Data Definition: This is a guest post by Ben Werdmuller who is the CTO of Curverider and one of the leads behind the Elgg open source social application engine. The Open Data Definition is a new format for the import and export of data from within social applications....; Tags: Software, Format, Data, Open Data Definition, Data Portability, Service Closure, Chances, Semantic Web Community, RDF Parser, RDF, Semantic Web, XML, RSS, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-04-28
Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Semantic Web is open for business: Earlier this month I had the great pleasure to spend time talking with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in Cambridge, MA. Our wide-ranging dig into the past, present and future of the Semantic...; Tags: Social Networking, Web, Application, Tim Berners-Lee, Business Model, Transcript, Tim, Semantic Web, Internet, Paul Miller; Blog posts 2008-02-26
Progress report on the OpenSocial Web: Google is releasing applications built on the Open Social API running on Orkut at the end of this month, and is holding "hackathons" February 7-8 and February 14-15 at Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters for OpenSocial developers. In addition, MySpace unveiled its Developer Platform today, which uses...; Tags: Developer, Google Inc., Web, Google OpenSocial, API, Fact, MySpace, Social Graph API, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-02-06
Google's Social Graph API is neat, but is it useful?: I guess it's not up to Google if their new Social Graph API will fly -- it's success is completely dependent on whether FOAFFriend Of A Friend and XFN XHTML Friends Network become popular enough to make their API useful. These two types of data are basically simple ways...; Tags: Google Inc., API, XFN, Garett Rogers; Blog posts 2008-02-03
Google unleashes Social Graph API--indexes people connections: Following on its OpenSocial APIs for building cross-social network applications, Google has created a Social Graph API that searches the Web for explicit public statements of connections between people. The Web crawler looks for XFN XHTML Friends Network and FOAF Friend of a Friend, which are standard formats used to...; Tags: Plaxo Inc., Google Inc., Web, Category, API, Site, Friend, People Connection, Social Graph API, Channel Management, Marketing, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-02-01
Seesmic for enterprise?: Loic LeMeur's Seesmic has the ingredients to be a hit - inside the enterprise. Mike Arrington and Ben Metcalfe have rendered their respective cautious verdicts and it would be remiss of me to sound overexcited. After all, the current iteration is Alpha 0.1 and I expect...; Tags: Video, Twitter, Seesmic, Ben, Corporate Communications, RDF, Marketing, Internet, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2007-10-08
Semantic Radar (xpi): Displays a status bar icon to indicate presence of Semantic Web RDF data in the Web page. Click the icon to explore this information in more detail. Data types recognized: FOAF (Friend-Of-A-Friend), SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities), DOAP Description Of A Project. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: Radar, Icon, Sergio Fdez, RDF, Semantic Web, Aerospace & Defense, XML, Internet, Manufacturing, Software/Web Development, Web Development; Software downloads 2007-09-28
If reputation is money in the bank, who owns the PIN?: As evidenced by the many lawsuits against Google concerning PageRank or other search result read reputational slippage, the notion that you own your digital reputation — even if it is at bottom a collaborative work that begins with your actions, but thereafter depends on the reactions of others — has...; Tags: Attention, Copyright, Defamation, Lawsuits, Patent, Privacy, Trademark, Trust; Blog posts 2007-06-06
Explode adds people search: Explode, the meta-social network that allows you to befriend others regardless of what network they belong to, has added a number of new features -- the most noticeable of which is a people-based search engine.Utlizing public APIs and the open standard FOAF Friend of a Friend, Explode now enables users...; Tags: Search, Social Networks; Blog posts 2007-05-16
JeromeDL (jar): JeromeDL is a semantic digital library engine. It aims to comply with more and more standards of the Second Generation Internet, like RDF, DublinCore, BibTeX, MARC21, RSS, Microformats, FOAF, eRDF, with a lot more coming soon, e.g., SIOC, or DOAC.; Tags: JeromeDL, RDF, RSS, XML, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development; Software downloads 2006-12-12
Neutral gestures: Neutral gesturesnot enough news coming out of CES...Bangalore, Silicon Valley these days, I guess?...I know bloggers like to bait each other. But instead of writing about each other can we not focus on bigger issues? The amount that is being pissed away on SarbanesOxley, the issues around globalization, does IT...; Tags: Blogging, marketing, Google Inc.; Discussion threads 2006-01-05
Rocking the free world: Rocking the free world180n.com180n.com is a site allowing readers to vote up which of the stories streaming from big M news media are actually important vs what they spoon feed. In the river of news & rss spirit it is also something I call WebRSS - a web presentation...; Tags: Podcasts, Top10, RSS; Discussion threads 2006-01-03
The open source business process: Open source is more than Linux, more than software. It is at heart a business process. You let people see what you’re doing. You use open APIs. You link to as many other business models as possible. This was seen in full last week, as Macromind founder Marc Canter (right,...; Tags: open source business process, open source; Blog posts 2005-07-24
ZDNet's podcasts: How to tune in: ZDNet's podcasts: How to tune inHow to use Podcasting?I have seen a number of articles on podcasting, but I have not seen anything about how to use/access a podcast. I do not mean a comment or link to a program. I mean how do you get one of the programs...; Tags: Podcasts, RSS 2.0, RSS 3.0, podcast, OPML, podcasting, RSS; Discussion threads 2005-02-13
Zero Sum Games: Susan Mernit and Marc Canter triangulate on Ross Mayfield's musings on personalization versus attention. It took me quite a few paragraphs to crack the Ross code--social networking good, automation bad. Marc's pushback was more concise, and Susan's more nuanced. Together the three posts illustrate why attention AND human filtering are...; Tags: Marc; Blog posts 2005-02-13