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I agree with several of the proposed ideas and I dislike others. But that's the beauty of this thing, that everyone will come at it from a different angle and, serendipitously along the way, we will run into pieces of each other's construction that fit our own vision. It's the nature of this giang human meshup we call "the web". Here's my personal favorite app: A Better World. Recently we had an 8.8 quake down here in Chile and several people died. Almost none if you compare this to Haiti or China. We had roughly 500 casualties. But nevertheless, we should have had zero. None. Zilch. And this becomes evident when you analize the causes of each death. Some of them are due to corruption and malpractice in the construction business. The vast majority of them were due to blunt negligence: a tsunami hit several localities after the quake but the alarm system didn't do its thing. In fact, the confused messaging that got across even encouraged some families to stay home while they could have... more... - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Facebook has personally helped me and my family in situations where the law has been too slow, and I really think that most social problems CAN be solved by putting all data out there. Transparency begets Justice in every situation. However, there are two problems (at least) that deserve some attention. 1. Centralization of control 2. Privacy related issues By Centralization I mean the... more... - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Facebook has personally helped me and my family in situations where the law has been too slow, and I really think that most social problems CAN be solved by putting all data out there. Transparency begets Justice in every situation. However, there are two problems (at least) that deserve some attention. 1. Centralization of control 2. Privacy related issues By Centralization I mean the fact that the data is not truly free at this point as we have Facebook in the middle. But be confident that this will solve itself as people come to understand the intrinsic capital in their data, which is theirs to share in the first place. The first big Facebook contender will be a decentralized SN where people retain rights over all their information and they control what they share. This is coming from the Linked Data side of things via Certificates and fractal webs of trust. See: this article (http://bit.ly/1kuuMw) and podcast by Kingsley Idehen & Jon Udell. (Disclaimer: Kingsley is a good friend... more... - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I have a new one: Give away all of your money to someone else. This way you can start over and once again go through the thrill of the beautiful experience. I would be more than willing to help ;) - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I have a new one: Give away all of your money to someone else. This way you can start over and once again go through the thrill of the beautiful experience. I would be more than willing to help ;) - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Nice girl! And the card looks interesting as well. - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Nice girl! And the card looks interesting as well. - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Quite interesting, some valid points. But after all of this, one question nags at me, Marshall. Who is "Punkin' the Tabby Kitten"? Or are you saying that there's a specific tabby kitten you're fond of punking? - Tinu Abayomi-Paul from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Dan, I'd say it is, yes. - Marshall Kirkpatrick

Yikes. I remember reading, a long time ago, that a Google team in manhattan was working on revolutionizing structured information. Anyway, not much to say. I can only hope that they fall asleep and end up behind us all ;) Too much to ask? maybe... Marshall, one small correction: tripple --> triple - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

This is an interesting development. Recently Google search results also started to display richer information about forum and bulletin board posts. For example: "Weblogs Forum - What about a decorator module version 3.0?" - 5 posts - Last post: Dec 3, 2008 - http://www.artima.com/forums... Does anyone here know when it was introduced and point to more info... more... - Uldis Bojars from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I have another one, albeit not very challenging: Tech Blog Article Generator! LOL ( hmm... can I LOL at my own comments? ) - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I wonder how you and Zoltán would classify our semantic web Firefox addon? I tried matching it with both lists and there's a little something there for these requests: 1. Semantic Search - a lot of interest in this, especially since the recent inclusion of semantic results in google search. headup identifies your search queries and adds it's own results to your Googling. 2. Semantic... more... - mike darnell from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I have another one, albeit not very challenging: Tech Blog Article Generator! LOL ( hmm... can I LOL at my own comments? ) - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Yikes. I remember reading, a long time ago, that a Google team in manhattan was working on revolutionizing structured information. Anyway, not much to say. I can only hope that they fall asleep and end up behind us all ;) Too much to ask? maybe... Marshall, one small correction: tripple --> triple - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

For the nnnth time. Please consider using L I N K E D D A T A as foundation. - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

@XMeister, Wouldn't it be nice if "@XMeister" was a conduit to a description of who you are? By this I mean it exposed your profile page? In a nutshell I wouldn't have to google in vain on the literal pattern which simple reveal nothing. Back to the topic at hand, XBRL, Data Access, and Data Joining. XBRL is simply an XML based approach to modeling financial reports. A financial report... more... - Kingsley Idehen from FriendFeed MT Plugin

@XBRLMeister Please stop second guessing my intentions, leaving incomplete phrases and suggestions. This is not healthy debate. If you are going to engage in this kind of public discrediting, at least provide your name and affiliation. 1. I am NOT defending any particular entity with a bias. *You* brought one up and incorrectly "framed" them ( and continue to do it ). 2. I am not stating that XML should not be used. I am sure that much thought has gone into the current framework, and it makes no sense at all to throw it away. RDF can be serialized as XML and contain XML. You can mix and match both. So I repeat: "everything can be done". 3. URIs needn't be on the open web. They are, in essence, a global naming scheme ( with all the benefits that provides when it comes to integration ). With respect to security, the fact that there is one web does not preclude you from partitioning it into different communicational channels through different access strategies. That's how the web is built today ( private/pu - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I am going to take a small step now and articulate how Linked Data's "serendipity" can add value to business data. The current financial turmoil is rooted in our inability to integrate *beyond* the expected lines. Not simply the complications of operating *within* the expected lines. Otherwise we never improve the paradigm ( until it proves itself flawed and you have Greenspan putting up a surprise face on national TV ). This is a complex system, we need to see data in context. Assume you have an epidemic hitting a certain region. What is the financial footprint? Who benefits? Who suffers? Can we understand the impact this has across borders, value chains, industries and throghout time? Can we see the ripples? If we operate on closed systems designed to reflect reality on a certain paradigmatic surface, we will always miss part of the picture. This is where Linked Data comes into scene. With linked data you could bring together biological data, protein data, geographic data and demographics ( which wer - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

@XBRLMeister I believe Linked Data DOES meet your business requirements. Can you be more specific? Whatever can be built on XML can be built on RDF. I am aware of the collaboration efforts and I use both techs on a daily basis. By using Linked Data / RDF you'd gain: * Access to maturing family of second generation middleware * Identifiers as endpoints that can be dereferenced ( w/o using proprietary protocols and conventions ) * Automatic mashing of the data ( both XBRL and any other, i.e corporate data or DBPedia ) * Querying over a graph based model using a well understood and characterized query language ( more expressive and powerful than the "X.." family ) ** Business reporting and aggregates are not part of the standard but they can be widely found. Moving a quad from-to relational models or OLAP is also quite straighforward. * Alignment with a rising community that is integrating RDF into many realms ( spreadsheets, social networks, desktop environments, etc ) * Lastly, the most valuable: Seren - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

For the nnnth time. Please consider using L I N K E D D A T A as foundation. - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Facebook needs to factor in the resulting PR, so the answer with a business twist is YES. But, from a sociological perspective, I guess the answer would be: Not immediately, this is valuable data!!! These are social health thermometers... especially useful if you can cross reference it with rich demographics ( which is what Facebook is all about ). I wonder how many things these guy already know about Humanity 2.0. - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

@Tim "I'm glad they shut it down. Incitation to hate, and racial behavior is nowhere to be tolerated, even in a free-speech driven world." Absolutely, but herein lies the conundrum. If you control the medium you silence the symptoms. How can you diagnose the patient in the dark? With no diagnose there is hardly any possible treatment. OTOH, it could be the case where not treating the... more... - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

@Tim "I'm glad they shut it down. Incitation to hate, and racial behavior is nowhere to be tolerated, even in a free-speech driven world." Absolutely, but herein lies the conundrum. If you control the medium you silence the symptoms. How can you diagnose the patient in the dark? With no diagnose there is hardly any possible treatment. OTOH, it could be the case where not treating the symptoms can also be a bad idea. In this case, it might spark a revolt or spread ill perspectives and distorted facts to virgin minds. Complex situation! Nice pick for debate Marshall IMHO, this incident lies within one of the areas that http://webscience.org/ should be looking into. You should ping them ;) - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Facebook needs to factor in the resulting PR, so the answer with a business twist is YES. But, from a sociological perspective, I guess the answer would be: Not immediately, this is valuable data!!! These are social health thermometers... especially useful if you can cross reference it with rich demographics ( which is what Facebook is all about ). I wonder how many things these guy already know about Humanity 2.0. - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

eeeeh. unified procrastination! Brazilians know a thing or two about social networks and the internet in general. About social everything, in fact. Power for Brazil! O país mais grande do mundo ;) ( I am not brazilian btw... but. WHAT A NAME FOR A WEB PROPERTY!!!! ). - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

@David "Fly through their twines" hehe. Good line. I have seen that spirit building up in there too... - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Can somebody explain to me how Twine is different from creating channels in LiveJournal or groups on FaceBook? The same knowledge aggregation mechanism, innit? - Dmitry Paranyushkin from FriendFeed MT Plugin

@David "Fly through their twines" hehe. Good line. I have seen that spirit building up in there too... - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Two seconds, I'll just go and /. you... prepare for server meltdown and intarweb cable combustion. - Juha Saarinen from FriendFeed MT Plugin

I fell for the linkbait. I love the title sizzle but honestly... s/No Longer/Never Was/g Conflation is such a easy trap to fall into and even harder to get people to agree upon when it transpires. I have had similar conversations with CFO's and we've all collectively agreed that the IP/IC generated by a business is when there is a defensible and unique product and/or service is rendered... more... - Jay Cuthrell from FriendFeed MT Plugin

@Yihong, In a way your model already happens. The only difference is that consumers hire producers ( programmers ) that modify the source to add new features or extend the system. The transaction happens internally in a "consumer organization". If you want to move the line back so that the transaction touches upon the original creators, then the bid to Source system has to be more efficient than this one. The problem is that you are introducing a middle man ( whoever manages the bidding system ) to broker the features, which is inherently less efficient. So far, I would preferably hire programmers on a side to do exactly as I want, within my timeframe, under my control and bypass the brokers. Just establishing dialog here. I think these kind of ideas may get somewhere... Best, A - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Great Post! Excellent to see this is reaching mainstream Social Media. Focusing on Twitter and Seesmic and whatnot is OK but don't forget that this is where real change is happening, Where the internet becomes an enabling technology for something more than enterprise collaboration: freedom, democracy, health and education. And this is why we need an integrative science to evolve ASAP. We need a framework to make sense of social disruption. Would love to see an article on: http://webscience.org/ - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

And the more recent http://www.webfoundation.org/ These initiatives appear totally disconnected from the current buzz, but they are actually at the core of the evolution of the web. The RWW team could enter a virgin niche by becoming middle-men between their "academic obscurity" and the masses through posts like this one. My 2 cents. - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Aldo, thanks, I will personally look into those two things. - Richard from FriendFeed MT Plugin

And the more recent http://www.webfoundation.org/ These initiatives appear totally disconnected from the current buzz, but they are actually at the core of the evolution of the web. The RWW team could enter a virgin niche by becoming middle-men between their "academic obscurity" and the masses through posts like this one. My 2 cents. - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Great Post! Excellent to see this is reaching mainstream Social Media. Focusing on Twitter and Seesmic and whatnot is OK but don't forget that this is where real change is happening, Where the internet becomes an enabling technology for something more than enterprise collaboration: freedom, democracy, health and education. And this is why we need an integrative science to evolve ASAP. We need a framework to make sense of social disruption. Would love to see an article on: http://webscience.org/ - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Richard. Any application that publishes data through an API *can* be "connected" to the Semantic Web by means of a simple adapter. This is what the folks at OpenLink, at my company, and at various other places have been working on lately. Can you say Microsoft Word is not web friendly? Yes you can, but as soon as you put an HTTP server in front and serve a .DOC file, it is *on the Web*.... more... - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Re: #30 " There are a few standout apps that do provide comfortable interfaces, such as Semantic MediaWiki and Drupal with RDF module. If you like give SMW a try on Referata, a free host: http://referata.com/ - Mike Chelen from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Does it work retroactively? :) - Aldo Bucchi from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Simple but could be very effective. Sometimes all you need is a third party (human or google) to give you that "....really?" look and you realize you're about to make a bad decision. ...If there was an iphone app that reached out and slapped you on the wrist (literally or figuratively) before letting you drunk dial/text that could be good too. Google, you on it? Or should we leave that to the iphone app developers? - Sandra Possing from FriendFeed MT Plugin