Archive for September, 2009
Mashups: second generation Web applications
Duane Merrill reports: Mashups are an exciting genre of interactive Web applications that draw upon content retrieved from external data sources to create entirely new and innovative services. They are a hallmark of the second generation of Web applications informally known as Web 2.0.
September 2, 2009
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Tags: external data, Mashups, second generation, services, Web 2.0, web apps · Posted in: Mashups
Real-time web defined
Real-time web: According to Ton Zijlstra: Real time is when you get your data stream through the web the instant the data is generated. Examples would be microblogging tools like Jaiku and Twitter, photo upload sites (Flickr, 23, Twitpic), live video (Qik, Seesmic), but also things like SMS (Treasuremytext.com). Another example would be the number [...]
September 2, 2009
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Tags: data stream, Flickr, Jaiku, Lifestreaming, microblogging, mobile, Qik, Real-Time Web, Seesmic, SMS, TomTom, Twitpic, Twitter · Posted in: Real-Time Web
Real-time stream flow
Jeremiah Owyang reports: When you think about it, information travels faster on Twitter around the globe faster than the speed of sound. This is also very scary. Today, Friendfeed launched it”s much anticipated redesign, and it resembles a real time flow of information. It resembles twitter like input screens, then social objects flow down the [...]
September 2, 2009
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Tags: Friendfeed, Lifestreaming, Real-Time Web, stream, Twitter · Posted in: Lifestreaming, Real-Time Web
Semantic data defined
Semantic data: According to Wikipedia: The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content. It derives from World [...]
September 2, 2009
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Tags: data interchange, N-Triples, N3, ontology, OWL, RDF, RDFS, Semantic Data, Semantic Web, Turtle, XML · Posted in: Semantic Data
Three models of value in the real-time web
Marshall Kirkpatrick defines three models of value in the real-time web: Ambiance: The web is not just a collection of a body of texts, but there is a lot of social activity around those texts and other documents such as bookmarks, tweets and blogs. Those related activities convey information which can be crucial. So those [...]
September 2, 2009
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Tags: ambiance, ambience, automation, blogs, bookmarks, emergence, keywords, Real-Time Web, tweets · Posted in: Real-Time Web
Data Integration and the Semantic Web
Tim Berners-Lee discusses: Anybody making real decisions uses data from many sources, produced by many sorts of organizations, and we’re stymied. We tend to have to use backs of envelopes to do this and people have to put data in spreadsheets, which they painfully prepare. In a way, the Semantic Web is a bit like [...]
September 2, 2009
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Tags: data, data integration, database, Semantic Web, spreadsheets · Posted in: Semantic Web