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“The process that the machine is using” -- the software -- might not be patentable under U.S. law? - Yihong Ding

a great article deserves attention - Yihong Ding

does our mind also fallen into this type of pattern when spreading? - Yihong Ding

Frederic, thank you for the information. I wrote <a href="http://yihongs-research.blogspot.com/2008...">a response</a> to this post at Thinking Space. As you said, there is always bright spot even in the coldest winter. Yihong - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Frederic, thank you for the information. I wrote <a href="http://yihongs-research.blogspot.com/2008...">a response</a> to this post at Thinking Space. As you said, there is always bright spot even in the coldest winter. Yihong - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Paul, thoughtful post. Thank you for sharing with us. - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Paul, thoughtful post. Thank you for sharing with us. - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Trevor is absolutely correct. Privacy rights are essential, even if some people may choose not to exercise them. Keep in mind that most of these services were developed primarily to further commercial purposes, not necessarily to make individuals' lives better. Many users may accept the trade-offs in using cross-site identity services (or may not be savvy enough to make a properly informed decision), but it is clearly a choice whether to use them or not. - LogEx from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Anonymity never even started on the Internet, it was an illusion caused by the obscuration of the outside world behind the monitor screen. What is very much alive is the concept of cloaking and alternative identities - aliases in fact, the amount of which very much depends on what your aims are. What is however important is that you cannot pretend to be someone else - you can only have an additional identity - it is still you. - Ian D. Nock from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Sarah, thank you for sharing with us. I completely agree to you. Online anonymity is passing. As I have argued in my model of Web evolution, the growth of the virtual individuals is an inevitable trend into the future of World Wide Web. I am glad to see more and more evidence to this claim. Yihong - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Yes! I love wikis. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Marshall. - Daniel J. Pritchett

@Joe: View other comments by scrolling to the bottom and clicking "show all notes". @Scott: I agree, I don't see myself searching for the same thing over and over. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Interesting. Thank you for sharing with us, Sarah. - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Interesting. Thank you for sharing with us, Sarah. - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

This is an important and probably influential move by Google, though in person I look for a bigger step by Google. ;-) Anyway, great post for an important new action. Yihong - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

When did ReadWriteWeb start using multi-page posts? That is so disappointing. - Rob Diana

Bring back anchor tags! :P - Aram Zucker-Scharff

Hi Richard, Thank you for including Imindi in the watching list. I am sorry that the last comment was not complete due to some reasons I am not sure. I was in hurry to a meeting before posting the comment. Imindi is certainly a unique one. To me, Imindi points out a better and probably more natural path how the Web may gradually approach the Semantic Web from Web 2.0. "Semantics", the term itself represents certain subjective judgment by individuals. Many of the mainstream Semantic Web approaches try to avoid this issue since it is too hard for machines to handle. By contrast, Imindi believes that this issue is inevitable. At the same time, Imindi also agrees that by the current technology machines truly cannot solve the problem well. Therefore, Imindi suggests much more human intervention into the construction of Semantic Web than many other Semantic Web researchers have suggested. From the research point of view, it is less machine-automated. From the practice point of view, however, we believe it is m - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Hi Richard, This is an excellent anniversary review. Semantic Web has gradually entered mainstream. Though still slowly, it progresses. About the new Semantic Web applications in this past new year, I would like to recommend Imindi. Imindi is actually an untraditional Semantic Web service, or we may call it a new take of Semantic Web. In tradition, Semantic Web services focus on employing machines to understand better humans. By contrast, Imindi's semantic web approach is to encourage humans to understand better each other via machines. Though both thoughts aim to understand better of human semantics (hence both are semantic web services), Imindi approaches the goal in a fairly different (untraditional) aspect. Imindi believes that it might be too difficult to directly implement intelligent machine agents that can well understand human semantics. By contrast, the success of Web 2.0 has shown that we humans are capable of and willing to help each other if only we have been given proper services to perf - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

A bit of very simple semantic markup, something simpler than HTML and used by ordinary people, would take us a long way towards realizing the vision of the Semantic Web. - Sean McBride

Richard, As for Web 3.0 and defrag, the most crucial Web 2.0 element that really need to be defragged is the online identities. We have too many identities in varied Web 2.0 sites. It is hard to manage these identities, let it alone to manage the information associated to these scattered identities. This identity defragment would be a critical Web 3.0 application. Semantic technologies will certainly be helpful and useful to approach this goal. However, I think it might be too quick to claim that Web 3.0 equals to Semantic Web. We need first to solve several other problems such as the redefinition of online identities before we may really reach the era of Semantic Web. Web 3.0 is simply too soon to realize the whole vision of Semantic Web. Yihong - Yihong Ding 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

ambitious, but the technological difficulty is huge. I am still doubting how well they can go. If they may restrict their application domains to a short list, however, I would look for their product. Yihong - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

ambitious, but the technological difficulty is huge. I am still doubting how well they can go. If they may restrict their application domains to a short list, however, I would look for their product. Yihong - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

@Aldo, Thank you for your addition. Certainly I know that this idea must not be a novel one since people have worked on the issue of Open Source for long time. Here is, however, the broker role that is actually the really interesting one. Don't take me wrong. I fully understand your viewpoint that the addition of brokers may cause less efficient. However, there is another thought you might have overlooked as well. That is, how about the middle man is a community organizer rather than a broker. This is the Web-2.0 point of view versus the Web-1.0 point of view. Therefore, the picture is not that developers seeking customers or customers looking for developers. It will be that both developers and customers joining an Open Source community simultaneously, and let the community be the judge that guides the growth of the Open Source platform. In analogy, your described picture is a pure free market without government; and my described picture is a government-guided free market. Which one would be better? Wel - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Marshall, I agree to that "Open Source" could hardly be a business model. However, let me just play a game of words a little bit. How about "Open to bid Source", could it be a business model? You see, that's the difference. Open Source opens platform and asks volunteers to contribute. Please be note that in this paradigm there is no separation between consumers and producers because basically the programming volunteers themselves are both of the consumers and the producers in this picture. This is the intrinsic reason that the present "Open Source" is not a business since to be a business there must be a separation between the group of consumers and the group of producers. Now let see what the "Open to bid Source" might work. In essence, my intention is to create a group of consumers that is different from the group of producers. Thus the process of transaction may occur and a business model is established. Again, in this new paradigm we may have a platform of open source. This time, however, the open so - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

This does look promising for mainstream users, not early adopters. As a Godaddy customer i'm finding it hard to relate Godaddy with Friendly UI, although they have improved their site lately. I'm gonna try this service, interesting to see if they somehow integrate it with currently owned domains and hosting packages (they already offer paying customers lots of other free services). Thanks a bunch for the detailed update. - Majento from FriendFeed MT Plugin

@Not with GoDaddy :-) I would be glad if your claim could be true. Actually, I am not cheering for GoDaddy. I just believe that this is a positive move for the site if it look for growing. Be honest, its business model would be better than the Netvibes though I have no confident at this moment that its service could be better than Netvibes. Netvibes is so far quite cool. Yihong - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

@Not with GoDaddy :-) I would be glad if your claim could be true. Actually, I am not cheering for GoDaddy. I just believe that this is a positive move for the site if it look for growing. Be honest, its business model would be better than the Netvibes though I have no confident at this moment that its service could be better than Netvibes. Netvibes is so far quite cool. Yihong - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Sarah, It is quite an interesting story. It seems GoDaddy becoming a new competitor to sites like Netvibes, or even Ning. But certainly it is a good move for GoDaddy.com since it sells new domains. Moreover, GoDaddy may naturally integrate its SmartSpace service into its existing subscription-based business model, which could be a significant advantage over its free-subscription competitors such as Netvibes, especially in this economic downturn. Good move, GoDaddy! Yihong - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Pandora is interesting, I have just make <a href="http://yihongs-research.blogspot.com/2008...">another prediction and analysis of Pandora</a> yesterday. Probably you might be interested in looking at it. About Facebook and Microsoft, I think the future is quite uncertain. It is hard to say that Live Search could indeed help Facebook a lot or in... more... - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Pandora is interesting, I have just make <a href="http://yihongs-research.blogspot.com/2008...">another prediction and analysis of Pandora</a> yesterday. Probably you might be interested in looking at it. About Facebook and Microsoft, I think the future is quite uncertain. It is hard to say that Live Search could indeed help Facebook a lot or in another way Facebook might bring more users for Live Search. In general, Google's share could only increase but not decrease if there is nothing fundamentally new to Live Search. Build itself inside Facebook is just no enough. Yihong - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

yeah, it is sad if that's happening. But we understand you. :-) - Yihong Ding

What do you mean? - Andy Roth

I would (and will) rather bet on human powered search engines that serve interest- or product-related niches. Example: I don't search for movies on Google. I search, obviously, at IMDB. I don't search for books at Google. I search at Amazon. etc. There are still some unserved niches out there, that lack a dedicated, human-edited search engine. - Dushan Wegner from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Bernard, I think you have addressed an important and timely issue. Will the human-powered search has its future? Thank you for sharing us with your thoughts, and it is a very well written. About my own opinion, I support the strike-back of the human-powered search. However, many (or nearly all) of the current takes (represented by Mahalo) have made a mistake in their strategies. They... more... - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Bernard, I think you have addressed an important and timely issue. Will the human-powered search has its future? Thank you for sharing us with your thoughts, and it is a very well written. About my own opinion, I support the strike-back of the human-powered search. However, many (or nearly all) of the current takes (represented by Mahalo) have made a mistake in their strategies. They are trying to perform the same search as Google but using human power. This thought is totally wrong. Please allow me telling a little bit hint. Machine's strength is to tell people where the information is, while human's strength is to tell people who are the master of handling certain information. If the human-powered search is only going to compete the goal that machine-powered search is good at, there is no chance of winning. That's why this version of Mahalo or its likely peers may have little chance of success. But only if the human-powered search engines may change their thoughts, a new door will open. Google will n - Yihong Ding from FriendFeed MT Plugin