Semantic Web Disease
Shouldn’t there be more than one Web page in the Universe that uses the phrase “Semantic Web Disease”? Oh. Well now I guess there are two. Isn’t this how all diseases start to spread?
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The Internet As Platform
Tim O’Reilly writes, The trends that are emerging today are at least as earth-shaking as the web and the open source movement turned out to be. I’m talking about the emergence of what I’ve started to call Web 2.0, the internet as platform. We heard about that idea back in the late 90s, at the […]
WS* Effect Considered Harmful
Via Mike Dierken we found this wonderful tidbit from Adam Bosworth stating I have a posted comment about just using XML over HTTP. Yes. I’m trying, right now to figure out if there is any real justification for the WS-* standards and even SOAP in the face of the complexity when XML over HTTP works […]
Wikipedia Turns a Million
Joi Ito points out that Wikipedia just passed one million articles: “Wikipedia is in more than 100 languages with 14 currently having over 10,000 articles… At the current rate of growth, Wikipedia will double in size again by next spring.” Wikipedia itself points to the power of a massive, decentralized content authoring effort. Ross Mayfield […]
Electronic Medical Records Are Taking Root Locally
Laura Landro’s 9/22/2004 Wall Street Journal article, “Electronic Medical Records Are Taking Root Locally” (available to WSJ subscribers) talks about how More than 100 state and local groups are moving quickly to establish their own networks in which various health-care providers can securely share patient information, aiming to cut down on medical errors and duplicated […]
Decentralized Virus Naming
Reading Anti-Virus Spamming and the Virus-Naming Mess by Dr. Vesselin Bontchev, I was struck by the fact that there is no common name for each virus. Virus names, once chosen by anti-virus producers, are difficult to change because the original name is already present in press releases, on the website, and in the virus definition […]
IW: CPG/Retail still leading the way in RFID
More evidence of the steamroller in action — but still, precious little to say of what the killer apps may be except to remind us that the status quo may be pretty awful to begin with. Here’s the state-of-the-art: “If there’s a discrepancy–the quantity shipped is less than the quantity ordered, for example–the system will […]
Bob Cringely proposes mutual insurance for data
I found this idea a compelling illustration of decentralization because it highlights that there can be *more* trust in a hydra-headed system run by the masses than a single-point-of-Google. Of course, the storage ratio should probably be 1:10 — meaning each byte could be backed up to 10 random machines to ensure that some of […]
“Device drivers” for RFID readers
It would be interesting to consider whether SNMP is an appropriate management technique for these readers. But it still wouldn’t provide a proper event protocol for relaying actual read data — UDP traps could be dropped, but reliable queues could overflow. And there would probably be a need to push filtering rules out to the […]
Intellectual Property Values
Ross Mayfield writes in his post Patents, RFCs, and Reputation, Here’s a thought, which is more valuable: the Eolas Patent on browser plugins or Dave Crocker’s RFC for email? Eolas recieved a half a billion settlement from Microsoft, and the original inventors could realize a considerable reward, if appeals reach an end. I’m using Eolas […]