Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Programmers are well aware that many of the software pat... laughably obvious ideas. Yet the patent system's defende... that these ideas are nontrivial, obvious only by hindsig... surprisingly difficult to defeat them in debate. Why is ...
One reason

Impostor

Artists are lighting up London's South Bank with 1200 wi... as part of a digital arts festival.

Having observed people helping one another in a friendly... trusting community way on the Internet, the WELL, and Us...
The first postings debuted in early 1995. The initial te ...
Soon, word of mouth led to rapid growth. Both subscriber ...
Newmark say

Microformats allow web sites to provide semantic data to... order to make it possible to present summaries of the in... page without having to know how to parse the document it... implements a global Microformats object that provides ac... microformat

Operator 0.9.3
by Michael Kaply
Categories
* Alerts & Updates
... pages to provide new ways to interact with web services.

I've been investigating the rel-tag microformat - tags, ... realised there are two fairly obvious problems with the ... I'm not the first to pick up on these, of course).
My scenario: an existing application hosts articles whic ...
So, what are the limi

Rel-Tag is one of several MicroFormats. By adding rel="t... a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink ... author-designated "tag" (or keyword/subject) for the cur...
<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/tech" rel="tag">tech</a>
the author i

Microformatique is an unofficial blog covering all thing... “data at the edges”. Latest specifications, presenta... publications and more. It’s put togther by John Allsopp

Web Slices
Web Slices is a new feature enabling websites to connect ...
A Web Slice is a section of a webpage that is treated li ...
Users can discover Web Slices within a webpage and add t ...

Oomph: A Microformats Toolkit is for web developers, des... making it easier to create, consume, and style Microform... amalgamation of applications: an Internet Explorer Add-i... that finds Microformats on a page; a cross-browser HTML ... using JQuer

JabRef is an open source bibliography reference manager.... format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibl... JabRef runs on the Java VM (version 1.5 or newer), and s... well on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

To allow users of one microblogging service to publish n... another service, given the other users' permission.

This is what OAuth does, it allows the you the User to g... private resources on one site (which is called the Servi... another site (called Consumer, not to be confused with y... While OpenID is all about using a single identity to sig... OAuth is ab

Creole is a common wiki markup language to be used acros... It's not replacing existing markup but instead enabling ... transfer content seamlessly across wikis, and for novice... contribute more easily. Creole will create a community o... developers

J4P5 is a JavaScript interpreter written in PHP 5, that ... untrusted scripts in a sandbox on your server. It aims t... of Ecma-262 3d edition.

This scripting language interpreter is implemented in PH... execute user-supplied JavaScript-lookalike code server-s... compromising security because everything runs safely in ... of course much slower than a real interpreter, but is us... integration

Creole (Composable Regular Expressions for Overlapping L... schema language that Jeni is developing for LMNL and oth... markup languages. It's based heavily on RELAX NG, with a... that make it suitable for overlapping structures.

You’re writing an email to invite a friend to meet at ... Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. Y... include a map. Today, this involves the disjointed tasks... composition on a web-mail service, mapping the address o... searching f

Riya is a new kind of visual search engine. We look insi...
Use Riya to:
* Find similar faces and objects on many images acro ...
* Refine the results, using color, shape and texture.
... look forward to your feedback via email or via our blog.

Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is a free extension of MediaWik... wiki-system powering Wikipedia – that helps to search,... browse, evaluate, and share the wiki's content. While tr... contain only texts which computers can neither understan... SMW adds se

OpenLink Data Spaces (ODS)
ODS is a new-generation Distributed Collaborative Applic ...
What are Data Spaces?
Data Spaces are a new database-management technology fro ...
As Unified Data Stores, Data Spaces also provide solid f ...

The new BBC /music site seeks to provide a definitive, p... online information about all the music the BBC plays. At... site are the artist pages which aggregate information fr... and elsewhere on the web. In addition to the the artist ...
A core feat

The vision of the Semantic Web still has not become real... significant research and development efforts were undert... of semantic representations is probably still outpaced b... traditional Web pages and one might be skeptic about the...
Triplify ta

This document surveys the current state of the art techn... conversion of Relational Databases to RDF. The different... SPARQL queries to SQL are also covered. Some knowledge o...
1. Identify common as well as distinct characteristic ...
2. Ident

RDF Validator and Converter
Use this demo to validate small snippets of RDF/XML or N ...

Today, a story on Techmeme caught our eye. It was entitl... Wikipedia for data," and the article, written by X-Googl...
In Bret's story, he mentioned some of the common data so ...
In addition, as CNet and Ryan Stewart's blog spread the ...
So what did

The public web is made up of linked pages that represent... people. Google Search helps make this information more a... useful. If you take away the documents, you're left with... between people. Information about the public connections... really usef

A few things to try:
* Right-click -> copy on the orange icon next to one ...
* Single left-click one of the orange icons so that ...
* Load the page in IE and Firefox side-by-side. Copy ...
If you are interested in how this works or if you w