Thursday, November 07, 2002

Study: Lengthy computer use saps energy. Japanese researchers publish a study showing that prolonged daily computer use can make you sore and deplete your strength, energy and motivation. [CNET News.com] 8:31:05 PM      comment []

Lack of RDF apps ? It may change soon Managability to XML to RDF. ... I've been using XML since 1998 and I've ONLY even heard about RDF this year when I started messing with blogs (RSS 1.0). I only heard about "Dublin Core" about 2 months ago... What's the deal... if this stuff is so important, where the are the apps? The only app I've run into that uses RDF are aggregators. -Russ [Russell Beattie Notebook] I've been looking at RDF since 1999, when trying to setup the server side architecture at Netcenter for Netscape Sidebar, and I agree that it has not taken off yet. I think it's because Tim Berners Lee's plan for the Semweb is very ambitious and there needs to be a lot of infrastructure and normative stuff ironed out before we see reral interesting applications. It may, now that the ontology wars are over. Read the recent Ontology Building: A Survey of Editing Tools  by Michael Denny. But I don't completely agree with the lack of applications. it has been used in a very interesting way in Mozilla, where it serves as the base infrastructure for a lot of components: read Resource Description Framework (RDF) And the W3C RDF page  lists a few applications, the most interesting of which I found to be RDFPic 1:47:50 PM Google It!      comment []

webMethods 6.0 Released, Bundles JBoss AppServer. webMethods this week is releasing a major overhaul of its integration platform (webMethods 6) that deepens its Java support and bundles in the JBoss appserver on top of their platform. webMethods' bundling of JBoss reflects their philosophy that the integration platform should serve as the core element of the infrastructure, in contrast to the approach taken by J2EE server vendors. [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community] 11:11:29 AM      comment []

All Consuming. My referrer log led me to this page at All Consuming. Here's the explanation: ... [Jon's Radio] 11:11:25 AM      comment []

Designing Web services namespaces. Cleaning up with RESTful SOAP [InfoWorld: Web Services] 11:09:23 AM      comment []

Microsoft memo: Linux fight backfiring. Some of the software giant's efforts to disparage open-source software such as Linux have worked against the company, according to a recent memo by the software maker. [CNET News.com] 11:05:47 AM      comment []

Rotor. Now that the OS X port of Rotor is available, and there's faster & cheaper PowerBooks available, there's no excuse for not owning a Mac! [Simon Fell] 11:05:42 AM      comment []