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Thursday, April 17, 2003
For me to read later today.
While at Adobe, my friend Thomas talked with me at length about how Adobe is trying to get the industry to implement its XMP (eXtensible Metadata Platform). Here's a paper on XMP.
I'd like to get feedback on XMP and give that back to Adobe. What do you think? Oh, yeah, they are giving this to a standards body so that it's not "just an Adobe" thing. This looks pretty interesting. When I start at Microsoft next month I'll try to find out what Microsoft's official position is on XMP. Anyone know?
The Social Software Alliance was announced recently. This alliance was promoted to create and promote standards for social software. Social software are applications that allow people to interact in a user friendly space where they can interact and share ideas. Blogs, Chats, Wikis, and forums are all examples of social software.
Quoting from the call for discussion:
"The fast-paced nature of the social software space now argues for developing light-weight, easy-to-implement standards, following the Internet tradition of rough consensus and running code, but perhaps moving faster than the larger standards bodies. It is expected that those standards promulgated by the alliance which become widely adopted will be proposed to the appropriate general standards body or bodies: W3C, IETF, ISO, etc. "
There will be a SocialText sponsored Happening tomorrow (see the site for more details) and we hope that anyone who is interested in the development of social software will come and get involved.
If you are the kind of person who just can not get enough .NET information, this site is just what you are looking for. There is a complete list of active .NET centric blogs and the most recent posts on this site.
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In Wired News they reported on Look Smart's new approach to indexing the web by using spare computing power of users machines. By signing up and getting a screen saver you can allow them to use your computer to help crawl sites. This way they say they can index more of the web than other search engines.
Wired says: "LookSmart hopes to tap the altruistic nature of many Internet users. The company hopes volunteers will help build a distributed search engine because it is to their benefit. In that spirit, LookSmart said it would open up as much of the index as possible to the public.
"We're building a community-based infrastructure, and because it's community based we're giving back," Stechert said."
This is a good idea, I hope it works, especially because I like the idea of communities building the product that I see on the web.
