Friday, January 27, 2006

standards The Future is XHTML 2.0. [Slashdot] make the case that xhtml 2.0 can actually be universal and accessible with device independence.  At its core it make the browser page the design/implementation platform for browser based applications that allow for personalized application interfaces with more intelligence than just graceful degredation to text.  With XForms and Persistant Local Storage XHTML2 enables device and OS independence of applications which makes the Browser replace the desktop operating system platform and also allows the cellphone browser to be an application interface (in the new version of client-server appliccation deployment).  The downstream consequence is likely that high bandwidth demand will grow substantially and web "services" will carry more or less of the processing load depending on the end user platform with the end user experience finally becoming dependable, maybe even emergency service grade dependable. -- BL 12:36:23 PM    comment

eContent mapping Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags? - Marieke Guy and Emma Tonkin, D-Lib. A folksonomy is a type of distributed classification system. It is usually created by a group of individuals, typically the resource users. Users add tags to online items, such as images, videos, bookmarks and text. These tags are then shared and sometime [Online Learning Update] 12:30:15 AM    comment