Ben Ward from Yahoo! Brickhouse writes about Portable Social Networks over at Digital Web Magazine.
It talks about Identity, Personality and Profile, using Microformats like XFN and hCard.
Category: Microformats
Tags: hCard, Microformats, Portable Social Networks, xfn
Short and sweet: HTML 5 offers custom data attributes on HTML elements, intended to store custom data, which can then be handled on-page by JavaScript, or off-page by other (web-)applications.
John Resig discusses a number of useful benefits.
Category: Javascript, Semantic Web
Tags: attributes, HTML, Javascript, semantic web, semweb, w3c
A couple of new, cool examples of SemWeb applications:
Pluribo, a Firefox plugin which creates instant summaries of Amazon user reviews. Some Amazon products have 10-100’s of reviews. Pluribo gives a summary by analyzing all these reviews. Currently only available for Amazon, you could see more, potential interactions with other web applications, think StructuredBlogging, or a summery of 100’s of comments on a blog post. Ars Technica has a nice overview.
HealthMap, a comprehensive mashup which ends up into a global disease alert map, on a country or province level. It filters disease news from Google News, the WHO and online discussion groups. Wired has more.
Category: Semantic Web
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