This looks like something I need to stop and spend some time with. I've always thought that there is a missing piece from the flash demo's of the semantic web and that missing piece is a human interface that works in ways that are familiar to the user. Like where is the dang list builder?
On the other hand there is tons of auto authored meta data that is being discarded when you shutdown after a hard day of information seeking on the Internet.
Interactive microcontent.
The friction that really wears us down is at the interface between people and data. I'm not too worried about how we represent XML fragments, but very curious about how we enable people to interact with them. These little experiments are hardly conclusive, but they do hint at the still-untapped potential of the scriptable document object model. [Full story at O'Reilly Network] <script src="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/quote.js"></script> <script src="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/getFragment.js"></script> ... [Jon's Radio]
4:02:37 PM 
|
