Thursday, November 21, 2002

Microsoft OneNote: it should be embraced and extended to use W3C's Annotea protocol I've taken the time to read Microsoft OneNote's description. It's pretty cool for use with a tablet PC, but the architecture is mucg too centralized and proprietary to my taste. This is useful for standalone Notes management, but in order to share and collaborate you have to use Microsoft's proprietary SharePoint Server. This is good marketing but not necessarily good for users :-) I agree with Jeroen Bekkers that it looks like an potential interesting fit for Groove. But even when they come up with a Groovy OneNotetool, you're still tied to Groove, which is today very Microsoft centric. I think there may be a few interesting projects to tackle in order to avoid this vendor lockin: either extend OneNote (if the APIs are open) to work with W3C Annotea project protocol so that you can annotate web pages using any annotation server that supports this open protocol. OneNote would then function as an Annotation client like Amaya and Annozilla or recreate the same kind of functionality that OneNote has in an open source client. 3:05:24 PM    comment []

wget http://www.chanezon.com/pat/fridge?missingitems=true&rdf=true | post http://www.safeway.com/ws/rdf/buy : will this soon be possible ? London: RFID Tags for Underground Passes. The plastic cards integrate an antenna coil and a chip that eliminates the need for commuters to insert the cards in a slot. Instead, they can wave it at a range of up to 10 centimeters over a card reader positioned at the top of a gate or bus entry point. The contactless card then "beeps the gates, checks them in and completes the transaction within 100 milliseconds," said Thomas Riener, marketing manager of chip cards at Philips Semiconductors. The rollout of London's smart card project began this month when the contactless cards were distributed to the staff of London's public transportation systems. Riener called the project "the first volume showcase in Europe" featuring Philips' contactless smart card technology, called MiFare. The technology is already used in volume in the public transportation systems of Moscow, Warsaw, Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Ankara and elsewhere, he said. Philips has already shipped 250 million MiFare chips worldwide, and has shipped "a couple of million devices" to SchlumbergerSema and Giesecke & Devirient, the two companies that received the contract to supply smart cards for London's public transportation system, Riener said... [Smart Mobs] RFID holds the promises of extending the web to the physical world. See also Gillette to Purchase Half Billion RFID Tags and Auto-ID Center: Merging Bits and Atoms. Auto-ID technology will change the world by merging bits and atoms together to form one seamless network that interacts with the real world in real time. As RFID is deployed, a whole class of physical objects will have urls associated to them. This will let us use RDF to assert things about them and create new applications. The next 10 years are going to be a lot of fun. 2:50:49 PM    comment []

When will we get the 2 way web: read and write Is the intuitive hypertext interface finally here?. The first web browser, Tim Berners-Lee’s WorldWideWeb was also a Web editor. You visit a page of yours, notice a… [Aaron Swartz: The Weblog] I think that W3C's Amaya browser lives to that promise of a 2 way web. But the macromedia tool that this post points to may be worth investigating.   2:41:00 PM    comment []