semanticpool

As more and more people move their reading behaviors to RSS aggregators we need to rethink our online branding.

RSS Mistakes people make « Scobleizer

From the makers of the “transmit”-ftp-client.

Panic – Coda – One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X

Looks like a nice application for development. But i swear on textmate. ;)

(via fly.ingsparks.de)

MindMeister brings the concept of mind mapping to the web, using its facilities for real-time collaboration to allow truly global brainstorming sessions.

MindMeister – think together

(via lifehacker)

Oh, i am just playing around with the Flock-Browser. So i have to post directly to the semanticpool using Flock. Really cool integration. I like it. :)

Flock is an amazing new web browser that makes it easier to share media and connect to other people online. Share photos, automatically stay up-to-date with new content from your favorite sites, and search the Web with the most advanced Search Toolbar available today.

Flock — the social web browser

SemSol is a forthcoming Web development framework that uses Semantic Web technology to significantly increase productivity and flexibility for everyday Web programming.

Hmm, the description on the page sounds really promising. It uses hot things like SPARQL, RDF, microformats and so on.
Hope there will soon be some more information.

Operator is another Firefox-Extension for handling microformats. Unlike Tails Firefox Extension it uses a whole toolbar and offers a lot of actions using the different microformats (show address on Google Maps etc.)

Whow, if this will come true. What a great day for the Yahoo-Chiefs… but what a bad day for the rest of the net.

With the shadow of Google looming over both companies, the New York Post says the software giant wants Yahoo to consider a buyout.
[...]
The Post said Wall Street sources put a roughly $50 billion price tag on Yahoo.
(news.com.com)

On my daily ramble through the web i found the nice Firefox extension “Tails Firefox Extension 0.3” which displays you all the well-known microformats which are placed in the current website. Supported formats are

• hCard
• hCalendar
• hReviews
• xFolk
• hAtom
• hResume
• geo

And it’s integrated really smoothly into Firefox’s status-bar using this little icon

You click and see all the fine microformat-data clearly arranged in a window.

XML-RPC and Apache XML-RPC

• It’s a spec and a set of implementations that allow software running on disparate operating systems, running in different environments to make procedure calls over the Internet [...]
• It’s remote procedure calling using HTTP as the transport and XML as the encoding. XML-RPC is designed to be as simple as possible, while allowing complex data structures to be transmitted, processed and returned [...]
• some people still prefer XML-RPC to SOAP because of its simplicity, minimalism and ease of use [...]
• An XML-RPC message is an HTTP-POST request. The body of the request is in XML. A procedure executes on the server and the value it returns is also formatted in XML. [...]
• SOAP is very similar to XML-RPC. It, too, works by marshaling procedure calls over HTTP as XML documents. Unfortunately, SOAP appears to be suffering from specification creep. [...]
• Procedure parameters can be scalars, numbers, strings, dates, etc.; and can also be complex record and list structures. [...]

• Apache XML-RPC is a Java implementation of XML-RPC [...]

Silverlight: AJAX is now an Endangered Species

• Graphviz is an open source graph visualization software.
• The Macintosh port of the automated graph layout software, featuring a new document-based GUI, export to PDF and many more bitmap formats, full alpha transparency, native font and shapefile support and anti-aliasing.

RailRoad is a class diagrams generator for Ruby on Rails applications. It’s a Ruby script that loads the application classes and analyzes its properties (attributes, methods) and relationships (inheritance, model associations like has_many, etc.) The output is a graph description in the DOT language, suitable to be handled with tools like Graphviz.

Microsoft Silverlight

• Microsoft® SilverlightTM is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. (more…)
• Microsoft Silverlight (code-named Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere or WPF/E) is a proprietary dual-platform XAML-based WPF technology for video, vector graphics, and animations. (more…)
• similar to Adobe Flash
• Microsoft Silverlight to Support IronRuby (more…)
• Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML, pronounced zammel ([zæ:m?l])) by Microsoft is a declarative XML-based vector graphics markup language used to initialize structured values and objects (more…)
• The goal of Silverlight is to get into the game, not to add anything new of value. If you look at the feature set on a pure technology basis, Silverlight has 80% less features and 98% less compatibility than Adobe Flash Player. (more…)
• In the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha release, we have enabled streamed XML reading and writing through the XmlReader and XmlWriter, respectively. (more…)

Thanks to Dave Winer’s posting, i have found out about Search Wikia.

The basic concept of the search project is that I want to create a completely transparent, open-source, freely licensed search engine, [...]
(more @ infoworld.com)

Never noticed that there is an “i” on Google’s personalized home page.