konradscons.blogspot.com - The DiSo project is a promising attempt to create a distributed social network - so is not following the "silo" approach as other social networks do. The blog of the project offers a short (4 min) introductionary video in which Chris Messina explains the vision and ideas behind this solution. The pr ... Details

Konrad's considerations (konrad.foerstner.org) - The DiSo project is a promising attempt to create a distributed social network which is not following the “silo” approach as other social networks do. The blog of the project offers a short (4 min) introductionary video in which Chris Messina explains the vision and ideas behind this solution. T ... Details

Cliffe Associates Ltd (www.cliffeassociates.co.uk) - Ordering Pizza in the future … thankfully not? ... Details

digitalassetmanagementorguk.wordpress.com - Empathic Web 3rd June 2008, 12:29 pm by zach beauvais Last week I listened to a talk by Shane Hipps, a Porsche “consumer anthropologist” turned Mennonite minister. The speaker, clearly aware of the contradictory nature of his background, made a very interesting observation about the digital ag ... Details

CivicActions blogs (www.civicactions.com) - Recently I've been looking into new web2.0 and, I guess web3.0, and social media trends - sites and services that are popping up like mushrooms after a rain. I've found many interesting one and wanted to share a few, and at the same time ask that if you know of anything really cool that you think I ... Details

Wikinomics (www.wikinomics.com) - The enemy: Information overload Cost: As much as $650 billion in the US, or approximately 8 hours a day for the average knowledge worker, according to a recent New York Times article. Our potential savior: Semantic search The main problem with using regular search engines to find information is t ... Details

AXONomics (www.secondintegral.com) - Before posting thoughts about my panel/forum session at this year’s Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech08), I wanted to share a bit about the conference as a whole. First, everyone seemed to walk away with a lot – regardless of their starting point. And the atmosphere provided for as much ... Details

impl.emented.com - A few interesting posts this week (May 26 - June 1 2008): A year ago there was much buzz about companies and public institutions embracing virtual worlds like Second Life, but since then the interest has declined and this year has been really quiet, until now perhaps. ReadWriteWeb refers to an ar ... Details

www.notabouttech.com - I love my job, but it's messy. Yet one more of the thousand reasons why I love my job is that I get to surf around the Internets looking for cool new apps that may be of value to faculty here at UMW. Often this exploration takes me into far off corners and sometimes dead ends. Periodically though, I ... Details

Aleri CEP Blog (blog.aleri.com) - DEBS 2008 June 2nd, 2008 by Jack Rusher I will be Aleri’s representative at DEBS 2008.  It looks to be a great conference, and I’m especially excited about ESTEEM 08 — the First International Workshop on Emergent Semantics and cooperaTion in opEn systEMs — which will be co-located wi ... Details

BlueBlog (blog.adaptiveblue.com) - Last week I spoke at the TechCocktail Conference in Chicago on Understanding the Semantic Web. It was a successful event and my session was well received, accomplishing the goal of communicating a general understanding in a simple way. Over the coming days I’ll summarize the elements from one sec ... Details

dltj.org - Carl Lagoze of Cornell University and Herbert Van de Sompel of Los Alamos National Laboratory announced the release of the beta form of the ORE specifications yesterday. Here is the full text of their announcement: Over the past eighteen months the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), in a project calle ... Details

www.shapingthoughts.com - Just watched this video about something called the Semantic Web (see Wikipedia page). Basically it is about a better web than we have now (the WWW) because it carries meaning with the data (this object is linked to this object or Marcel “works with” ING). As explained in the video by Nova Spiv ... Details

Daniel Lewis (vanirsystems.com) - OK. It’s a funny title for a blog post, but it is an acronym which I don’t want to start up as a buzzword, but it where I see things going. A lot of people know about Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), its a set of protocols and formats to allow you to just plug a hardware device into another hard ... Details

Daniel Lewis (vanirsystems.com) - Following my previous post on “The Tribes of the Semantic Web“. There is another Semantic Tribe: The RDFization Tribe. The RDFization(or RDFisation to be slightly more English English) Tribe. RDFization is quite a simple term to understand if you think about it, because “isation” means the ... Details

Daniel Lewis (vanirsystems.com) - Intro In the past I have written and talked about the fact that URIs are the key (or ticket) towards making data more semantic (aka “meaningful”). A URI is a unique label for a data object, by giving a unique label to the object you can build relations up with that object, making the object mor ... Details

Daniel Lewis (vanirsystems.com) - Kingsley Idehen, my boss, Talked with Talis earlier this month. I’ve just listened to it. He specifically talked about the business benefits of Linked Data and the Semantic Web. It is available: “Talking with Talis: Kingsley Idehen talks about OpenLink Software, Linked Data and the Semantic We ... Details

Daniel Lewis (vanirsystems.com) - As some of you know, I am a member of the ACM and this lovely bit of news was released last week at some point, but I’ve only just noticed today because it was in the recent ACM MemberNet mailing list email. The Semantic Web Expert Professor Wendy Hall CBE FREng of the University of Southampton, ... Details

rj3sp.blogspot.com - Faviki is a new social bookmarking tool that offers semantic tagging capabilities. This means is that Faviki will suggest tags based upon structured information extracted from the Wikipedia database. clipped from www.rotorblog.comFaviki Offers Social Bookmarking with Semantic Taggingclipped from www ... Details

bhc3.wordpress.com - It would be nice to have filters on FriendFeed. For instance, it would be nice to be able to hide any post containing the word “Obama” without having to hide someone’s other stuff. Or the ability to hide any entry containing the word “ubuntu”, etc. Thomas Hawk, FriendFeed direct post, May ... Details