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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

Additional Resources

AOL/Facebook in the Enterprise

AOL bought Time WarnerWhy does everyone forget this?RE: AOL/Facebook in the EnterpriseAOL - World Dominance? I hardly think so. AOL have always been seen this side of the pond at least as something you warn your kids about - we HATED it with a vengeance. ANY internet supplier was preferable...

Tags: INTERNET, Social networking, America Online Inc., Facebook

Discussion threads 2009-11-19

FOAF+SSL: RESTful Authentication for the Social Web

The paper describes a simple protocol for RESTful authentication, using widely deployed technologies such as HTTP, SSL/TLS and Semantic Web vocabularies. This protocol can be used for one-click sign-on to web sites using existing browsers | requiring the user to enter neither an identifier nor a password. Upon this, distributed,...

Tags: Protocol, Social Web, RESTful, Authentication, Ssl/Tls, Semantic Web, Security, Internet

White papers 2009-04-20

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

OpenLink Virtuoso Universal Server (Personal Edition) 5.0.5 (Mac)

OpenLink Virtuoso is a next-generation Universal Server Platform that facilitates the development and deployment of a new generation of Enterprise-wide, Internet, Intranet, and Extranet-based solutions, transcending prevalent enterprise challenge areas such as Disparate Databases & Data Sources, Web Service Composition, and Business Process Integration. Virtuoso unravels the potential of the...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, OpenLink Software, OpenLink Virtuoso, Virtuoso, XML, UDDI, Web Services, .Net, Databases, Middleware, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-02-12

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 0.9 (Windows)

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, Sergio Fdez, RDF, Semantic Web, Aerospace & Defense, XML, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Manufacturing, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Operating Systems, Software

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 2 (Windows)

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, Microsoft Windows, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Operating Systems, Software

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