is a project at RDFweb. Simply stated, it can search for images of people. It uses a vocabulary called FOAF, which basically tries to describe communities. On a similar note, TheyRule is a flash site, which links CEO’s to the companies they ruled. One more project of RDFweb is FOAFCorp, which tries to describe the structure of corporate entities.
Photo metadata: the co-depiction experiment …
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A long answer: Data on the web has different levels of fluidity. News posts are just facts and a set of news posts put together make more logical sense to the person reading them together. A story can combine all these news posts and give a coherent structure. A story is semi fluid. A paper or an RFC is the least fluid and will have arisen from a lot of discussion and will remain true for quite some time. These levels of fluidity are part of the whole discussion process where the news posts are the starting point and paper is the final culminating point.
Google’s job: Google has the task of organizing this data according to users needs. It needs to have different views for different users. The register reports about Google separating blogs from the webpage searches. If it is true, then Google is in the right direction of separating out the stories from the papers from the etc, etc. Dave asks how Google will tell the difference? It can do some basic stuff by the data’s size, its level in the link structure, etc. But its won’t get far with this, I guess that’s why Google bought Applied Semantics, Inc. If Google does separates blogs from its websearch, there’s gonna be lots of publicity for blogs. Also here is one more view that can be done with Google in one of my previous post.
Are Blogs noise for Google users? …
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It brings out the point that in a bottom up hierarchy, like the web, the search engines have all the money making power. The power of corporate heavy weights moves into the hands of search engines!!!
August 2009: Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web …
How could blogs be cooler? More Views, Better navigation, Better search. That is what the Model View Controller paradigm points to. Also Steve Cayzer @ HP Labs is the guy incharge of Semantic Blogs.
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Has origami models and also training lessons in flash. Also paperfolding has something about math and origami.
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has lots of interesting (valuble) videos online. You can call it a video blog. She is the the Technical Architect for the Creative Commons license. She is also a teacher at Berkeley and is involved with XML.
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The comp.human-factors group on google is a very low traffic group. A “search agent” looks up the search results for the key words and posts changes on the site. Along with this, there are other search agents at Newsability, Google: User Experience, Google: Usability, Google: Information Architecture. Newsability does exactly what I was thinking about, mixing aggregators with search engines. Kudos to Tom Smith.
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displays some examples of the Best and Worst of Visualizations. A neat collection of all the standard visualizations found in text books.
Gallery of Data Visualization …
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Recommended Readings for anyone who reads IAslash. Also you can put in your blog address and get your readings.
Cluetrain.com a book site by Rick LevineChristopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger has a list of 95 thesis topics (possible). I’ll write my 100 too 🙂
Trevor Smith has all the notes taken at emerging technologies with the help of Hydra. It would have been better if Hydra was OPML capable. Trevor is a Resercher at PARC.
TheOtherBlog also hosts newsability, News for people who make things usable. It aggregates: Tomalak’s Realm, Usability Views, Webword, Usability News, IA Slash.
ia/Information Architecture News Is a gold mine for Information Architects. This is the one that should go on the blog roll.
IT & Society Edited by Ben Schneiderman, the Winter Issue of IT & Society was dedicated to Web Navigation and contains articles ranging from user frustration, to PDAs, to browser design.
Jabby Panda is the usability and flash blog. He also links to the flog, an all in one flash aggie. He also points to warpraxis, which is another flash blog, he points to NoteTaker – A Simple MVC-based App?
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