Location data is everywhere. From huge government databases of geographic features to your pictures in Facebook, it seems like almost every piece of information around nowadays is tagged with its location. However, it still seems that no one is effectively sharing information, or building the smart, next-generation systems that will surely rely on data...
Namespaces can get near on impossible to process sanely. http://blog.technologyofcontent.com/2010/01/json-vs-xml/ see the “Against XML namespaces” section
Lots of people in the circles in which I travel talk about how great the web could be with more metadata, tags, structure, and links. How so many more mashups and cool apps could be built if people took a little more time to create data “the right way”. This article has an interesting...
This is a great article. Find some quiet time to read it. I finally get the importance of HTML5 and why we should all be excited about it. http://www.technologyreview.com/web/26565/?a=f
I was reading up on FOAF today, and checking out an introduction at XML.com. On first blush, my gut feeling looking at the examples was that the FOAF dialect was messy and cumbersome. However, being the XML geek that I am, I stuck with it for another few minutes and decided it’s really very...