13 May 2003

Hyping the Semantic Web SCRIPTING -- So is the Semantic Web an example of overhyped technology? Dave Winer points out that while the Semantic Web was cresting into the mainstream, Google was becoming the main gateway for the Web. "Proponents of The Semantic Web want to boil the ocean by getting people to change the way they write for the Web," says Winer. "As if that weren't hard enough, they can't tell you how you're supposed to change. In the meantime, Google does a fine job of finding the stuff you want, making the barrier even higher for the Semantic Web." Dave Winer: hype of the Semantic Web x_ref101sw

Rejected Google Logos FARK -- Rejected Google logos with the top vote getter being Kleptomania which disappeared for bandwidth reasons even before the last votes were tallied.  x_ref143

Technorati as a reputation system WEB-DAWN -- Technorati could become a reputation system. In its current form, it reports the number of inbound links and inbound blogs. While simple, this provides a good measure of how these blogs are viewed by others. Sebastien Paquet suggested using this data as a way to filter comments in blogs. Readers would be able to set an "number of inbound blogs" threshold. So if I only value comments from bloggers with 10 inbound blogs, the comment listing would be filtered accordingly. And if I want to see all comments, I can do that too. In another example, today Joi Ito has created a script that displays recent inbound blogs in his blog's gutter. A hybrid of these scripts would effectively give a better reading of a site's prominence than a Google Page Rank score. Because Technorati updates links so fast, your score would change as soon as links are created. The real power of this scoring system is that it becomes a marketplace reputation system, a strong basis for a new social marketplace. Gary Lawrence Murphy: Know thy blog Sebastien Paquet: Dynamics of ridiculously-easy group forming Joi Ito: Technorati, Python and I Rule Mark Carey: Technorati as a reputation system Dave Sifry: Technorati API 0.9 Dive into Python x_ref119