“There has recently there been a great surge of interest in collaborative tagging as a means of facilitating knowledge sharing in social computing. Collaborative tagging refers to the process in which a community of users adds meta-information in the form…

A few days ago I wrote a blog about Micro Formats. So I was pleasantly surprised to see that Danny Ayers is starting a wiki on Micro Models and using Micro Formats as the starting point. Danny plans to pick…

Google Base is a great example of an XML application. It uses RSS to create new types of content. Google Base comes with a set of pre-defined item types. You can create your own. Let us look at an example.…

“As the pendulum swings from push to pull, the effectiveness of advertising diminishes relative to the importance of product design and quality and price. No longer forced to trust the promotional spin of television advertisements and predatory salespeople, we now…

Microformats are a way of adding more meaning to your web content. For example, you can use a hCard format to display business card information or hCalendar for event information. What is the benefit? By adding some meaning (semantics) to…

Among several pieces of email that arrived in my inbox yesterday, the one from Peter P Jones caught my attention. He posted several links to articles on managing unstructured information. One of them was about a project called Virtual XML…

There is a great article from Adam Bosworth in ACM Queue online magazine titled Learning from THE WEB. He makes many great points. I agree with most of them. The wisdom of the crowds works amazingly well. He mentions examples…

I subscribed to the “semantic-web@w3.org” mailing list a few days ago. I lucked out, because I found Joshua Tauber and his rdf:about site. The Quick intro and the RDF in Depth are two of the best articles I have read…