April 25, 2006

Google Data Namespaces

Jeremy Zawodny said some interesting things about the GData Protocol. One significant aspect of this "child of Atom" is Google data namespaces (also referred to as "kinds"). What I wonder about is how this will dovetail with GBase's lightweight ontologies.

The work done to organize GBase useage around "item types" (not to mention the enormous amount of knowledge domain work that has been put into their search engine) enables Google to understand and answer the data needs of a multitude of knowledge domains. Google is getting into a feedback loop with users, and the result will be standard naming conventions for object types and fields.

Peter Van Dijck sees Google data namespaces as part of an emerging Google OS.

April 7, 2006

The Kitten Test

Do check out KittenAuth, a cute alternative to CAPTCHAs.

I look forward to site-themed implementations of this concept!

April 6, 2006

Guardian Unlimited Article

An article about the semantic web was posted on Guardian Unlimited today. Spread the word, and join it up examines the top-down vs. bottom-up "debate", mentioning BBC Backstage toward the end.

Not enough useful RDF data has been left online, he [TBL] explained: "The whole value-add of the web is serendipitous re-use: when you put it out there for one person, and it gets used by who-knows-who. We want to put data out there for one purpose, then find it gets linked into all kinds of data. And that's been not happening, because we forgot 'serve useful stuff', not to mention 'make useful links'."

Source: Guardian Unlimited