Foo Bar is neither a bar nor a restaurant. Nor should it be confused with F.U.B.A.R. (F*d Up Beyond All Repair). Rather it is a placeholder name for computer programmers and seems to have been around forever. A metasyntactic variable (a triple word score Scrabble word if ever there was one) the term
is commonly used to denote the subject matter under discussion or an arbitrary member of a class of things under discussion.
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Tumblr is a mobile-phone optimized blogging website that turns ordinary people into mobile artists. Optimized for those quirky little camera phones, Blackberry’s and iPhones we all carry, this free web site is all about snippets of information. Think of it as Twitter without the noise. My personal site is gotham.tubmlr.com You can post information to this blogging system from any mobile phone by sending an email to a specialized email address. If you have access to a web browser read more…
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“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names” (Chinese Proverb)
Part 2 of a 3 part series.
If the semantic web is the web that talks to itself, then it’s important that everyone speak a common language, a language of “standards.” Under development by volunteer groups around the world these standards” describe the name and translation of data. They include:
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Web Ontology Language (OWL)
Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL)
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“Semantic web” is a term you hear more and more about these days. But what does it mean? Why should you care? And what has it done for you lately? The official definition is:
“The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners.”
My plain-English definition would be read more…
You scour YouTube and Truveo for videos of interest. But your collection is nothing more than disconnected bookmarks. Along comes uvLayer, a new web application that makes it easier to discover, watch, collect, and share videos. The product is in beta but my first experience with it suggests that these guys are on to something. Here’s what you need to know:
Finding videos across delivery platforms was seamless and lightening fast. Right now they’re using the YouTube and Truveo API’s
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