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last updated at 2008-03-13 18:53
pius: They are saying that they will support a number of microformats at the start: hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom and XFN. They will support vocabulary components from Dublin Core, Creative Commons, FOAF, GeoRSS, MediaRSS, and others. They will support RDFa and eRDF markup to embed these into existing HTML pages. Finally, Yahoo will support the Amazon A9 OpenSearch specification with extensions for structured queries to deep web data.
 
 
danja_win32: tech podcast featuring Sindice, the state of data on the web, and lots about linked data
 
 
danja: news on techcrunch about forthcoming expansion of Open Search Platform
 
sbp: “Twine has some major shortcomings that I think are going to drastically hinder the service's adoption. Perhaps unsurprisingly, those shortcomings come down to usability and performance. Hopefully these problems will be resolved, but it isn't going to be easy.”
sbp: by Marshall Kirkpatrick
sbp: Funny how Marshall's criticisms are somewhat different from my own. It's difficult for me to review the idea inasmuch as it seems to be a bunch of things that I don't use all that much (bookmarking, social networking), but my main feeling was that there's a lack of novelty; unless the combination of all the different things can be considered the novelty.
sbp: The Semantic component seems to be limited. In the demo/walkthrough they appear to be trying to pass of free text search as a Semantic Web thing, which is strange; and the use of the marketese “semantic understanding” made me a little queasy too.
 
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