Adaptive Path: Tagging vs. Cataloging: What It’s All About

Google not sentimental... The graph shows why it closed down its Answers service. Google Answers used screened experts while Yahoo is open.

computer poetry via HubLog

Put the Connectbeam social bookmarking server inside the corporate firewall and watch..... everyone tag dilbert cartoons all day from their cubes.

This is a knowledge service mash-up between the NLH primary care question answering service and the duets database. Uncertainty from primary care is channelled (by RSS) into a database which will feed into the National Institute for Health Research.

Congratulations to the Canadian Institute for Health Research on its Draft Policy on Access to CIHR-funded Research Outputs. CIHR funds the Canadian Cochrane Centre, which hosts several review groups, whose outputs should now be made freely available.

Whatever next? How about a playstation based super-computing cluster

Joel has started off a great story on software writing inside Microsoft

Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: A couple of reports reports on a RIN report - one obvious (but important) conclusion - researchers want delivery linked to discovery.

coming soon: an expertise/skype/paypal mashup: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » BitWine Gives Access To Those In The Know

Microformats

Archive.org Founder Criticizes Google Book Scanning (Video)

Jon Udell has a list of screen sharing services

RSSPECT says it can add RSS feeds to anything

drag and drop cms lite: Weebly

Dilbert goes Six sigma

Consumer Health Media: Medicare for all

Observer podcast: Web 3.0 - semantic web, radar, identity, open-ness, web as database. How we get there? Won't it be best to start with dabble, microformats, googe-base and AMazon S3 and iterate rather than hold out for the sem-onto-web?

A book I've ben wanting to read for years - Networks of Power: electrification in Western Society has just turned up at the top of Google.

Google Book Search gets an Ajax upgrade

interview with Randall Spratt: CIO McKesson

Assembling great software: A round-up of eight mashup tools

Office Live beta doesn't work on Firefox

Unstructured Information Management Architecture: UIMA COMPONENT REPOSITORY

Wesabe - a collective approach to money management.

I was struggling to find something about a particular guitar manufacturer last night (Google, Live, Yahoo found nothing), when my daughter casually said 'why not try wikipedia'. Which we did. And while there was nothing on there either we did find some interesting things about acoustic basses.

Aligning te semantic and 2.0 visions for the Web could get very interesting in 2007, provided the friends of complex solutions can see beyond RDF. There could even by alignment with Charles Simonyi's concept of intentional programming. Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog: "Markoff's description of Web 3.0 was ostensibly prompted by something I'm seeing as well, well beyond pure play Web mashups we're beginning to witness a number of companies building end-user solutions that can automatically navigate the Internet, weave together tapestries of online information to generate new, useful results"

Big in Japan: Social Media Tools and Services!: "We have been providing Voice 2.0 integrated applications as dedicated services for quite some time. Now we are offering a robust API (application programming interface) that allows any web developer or application developer to integrated custom phone features into their application."

Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing launching in December, Danny Sullivan's new service.

David Weinberger on the Semantic Web The case for two semantic webs: "My experience with SGML leads me to think that the Semantic Web will help where it helps, but that the vast bulk of the semantic stitching of the Web will be done the way we're doing it already and the further ways we will invent--everything from hyperlinks to XML to playlists to buddy lists to reputation systems. In fact, there's basically nothing we do on the Web that doesn't turn it into an evermore semantic Web."

web 2.0 style bmi calculator

Stream of presence - Jaiku

Jon Udell - Tantalizing hints of the Knowledge Navigator. This video shows a small step towards the sematic web, using string and glue rather than RDF. Shows the potential of having a web-base (a fully web enabled database) available.

sign of growing maturity in the search engine market - sitemaps standard accepted across major search engines.

Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud: Honey, I just shrunk the server hosting business

Malcolm McDowell talks about the Free Cinema movement in Britain. Excellent on several fronts - the talk itself, the quality of the production, and the flow between sections. A very good learning object, without metadata.

Here is a wall of web video about the NHS

Web 2.0 disconnects and a (hard to credit) revelation that Zune and Vista are incompatible

Linux - low cost, linux boxes with free software on board

QOTD via Guardian-Fishbowl-37 Signals: "Steve Jobs can make sharing earwax sound sexy. Ballmer can make a digital file transfer sound like something you’d need to clean up after."

A new (and lucrative) role for librarians - How Learning to Search Better Made Me a Better SEO. But in one big organisation I know of help from the library was neither sought nor offered in recent discussions about SEO.

Article comparing Google and Microsoft gadgets:

• there is a degree of interoperability
• MS gadgets are superior but more complex to develop and deploy (Betamax is mentioned)

Widgets/gadgets are cool - so its good to see this

lbr has a post demonstrating the application of Google Custom Search across the Directory of Open Access Journals

Enterprise 2.0: Blogtronix and Suite2

Free or free-ish phonecalls via a landline. The Jajah plugin for Firefox works pretty well but is having difficulties with the nhs.uk GP listings...

DormItem - Free College Classifieds shows good use of AJAX and tagging.

Robert Scoble has unearthed a neat feature on Wordpress that gives a direct route into Wordpress content does it have an RSS feed? Well yes it does, so a direct feed about the NHS from Wordpress blogs would be http://wordpress.com/tag/nhs/feed/. Bing! Simple, elegant and useful.

If 2005/6 was about putting TV on your PC, 2006/7 could be about putting youtube on your telly (complete with adverts no doubt)

JackBe.com - technology platform for Enterprise Web 2.0.

Rod Smith: » SOA and Web 2.0 - summary - services not software; userbase creates/adds value; simple (RSS as well as SOAP)

TimeBridge takes some of the hassle out of arranging meetings. It also creeates a meeting space, enables file upload and allows the construction of agenda and notes.

Microsoft has added a Tagspace to its sites

Web 2.0 definition updated and Enterprise 2.0 emerges

excellent blow by blow review of zune installation

now you can watch the web swarm and stack with digg labs swarm and stack

Why do I dislike Autonomy so much? I must get over it, but they never fail to come up to scratch in the hype stakes. Their latest offering is Ant technology (check the website).

Looking to put their meaning based computing to the test I searched the Antonomy 'powered' daysoutuk for a green day out, and came back with .... (drum roll or sound of Ants marching)... the Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker, as well as the Gretna Green Tourist Information Centre and the Royal Green Jackets. And it didn't find the Centre for Alternative Technology, which requires the search term eco (ecological doesn't find it).

Ants, I meant Green not Green. The equivalent search on Google UK was a bit of a hodgepodge (anyone want a Green Day teeshirt?). But at least it found this as result number 3. A search of Live found more commercial sites amongst the results - this was near the top. Yahoo was similar. Visit Britain wasn't very good, though it did suggest the South Hams.

New York Times is carrying a report (free login required) on companies working on the transition from Web 2.0 to semantic web. Mentions Radar Networks. How long till Autonomy comes out as a Web 3.0 leader?

Turn the Cochrane Collaboration into a Web 2.0 start up by calling it Collaborative Filtering

Panlibus: take your data with you - latches onto a debate about opening up access to MARC records. The comments in Code4Lib are very interesting:

"My suggestion for an even better scenario: A person grabs a book off the shelf, and enters the ISBN into an application they use for dealing with
books. (LibraryThing, Desktop home cataloging software, professional cataloging software (!), firefox extension, local library web page, or the OpenFRBR web site itself). The application contacts OpenFRBR behind the scenes and checks all available...."

Bill Gates: "What's Web 1.0, what's Web 2.0, what's Web 3.0? You know, there's a hundred YouTube-type sites out there.'" Yes but they don't all have this.

Google as a diagnostic decision support system? It's not as good a result as thatachieved by ISABEL, but the key point is not that Google only scored 58% but that it scored as much as 58% on a (complex) task it was not designed to do. Part of the explanation for this must be the volume effect noted in the talk on Google and Artifical Intelligence noted in a recent post on this site. I don't know if it is sensible to think of Google as helping with diagnoses. But let's just assume it will be used that way, and so a role for health librarians (see comments to the BMJ article) is not to fret about their failure to connect with users, but to improve the search tools that users choose.

This white paper - the identity metasystem (pdf) - from microsoft, provides a good introduction to requirements, issues and solutions for identity management on the Internet.

just imagine....Microsoft Firefox

Dion Hinchcliffe: strategies for creating open websites and platforms: "As culled from Web 2.0 Summit discussions and other known best practices...

1. Liberate content and services via a public, open API. Content will continue to be separated from the experiences that mediate access to it, this makes adaptable experiences possible. Example: RSS readers let users consume content in the ways they choose and have control over. Doing this turns your Web application into a platform and is one of the most important habits of highly effective Web sites .
2. Syndicate as well as use Web services to open up data. Each method has clear strengths such as discoverability, ease of consumption, or on-demand control. Example: This means RSS or Atom as well as REST or SOAP.
3. Make it legal to reuse content. Don't charge if you can help it, consider monetizing it via advertising, transaction fees, or subscriptions. Don't cripple unintended uses, such as Yahoo!'s limits on their APIs, vs. Amazon's profitable emphasis on unlimited use.
4. Diligently build trust and credibility. No one will use your open data or services unless there is trust and credibility in the site. This is very hard to establish and is easily lost. This is one of the hardest intangibles of openness to manage.
5. Expect the"

Re the last post, here is the custom search blog and an entry about Specialized results in your search engine

Wilfred Drew (aka the baby boomer librarian) thinks that librarians have missed out on the Google Custom search news: Who is blogging about CSE and Libraries?

Consumer Health information in Second Life: Alliance Library System Receives Grant to Provide Consumer Health Information Services in Virtual World at InfoIsland.org

Peter Suber, Open Access News: "A major study of librarian purchasing preferences has shown that librarians will show a strong inclination towards the acquisition of Open Access (OA) materials as they discover that more and more learned material has become available in institutional repositories"

Google Maps can now be visualised within a GPS system

Ask and Microsoft: challenging Google

SuiteTwo: Enterprise 2.0 in a box - Blogs, Wikis, and RSS Feeds for the Enterprise

Jonathan Schwartz: not thin clients - network clients

Exclusive Bootleg Video of Eric Schmidt Web 2.0 Keynote - 1 of 2

Microsoft update: A Conversation with Ray Ozzie

panlibus: Second Life gets a library

The Register - Apache Derby "a relational database management system written completely in Java."

ft.com: Google steps up effort to break into print

Mashery:Power Your API.

2 new Web 2.0 notepads - stikkit and Helipad

Google is building software applications one piece at a time. This post describes how an advanced feature from Google Co-op has been made available to Custom Search Engines.

Open Source reporting: The Pros Will be Out in Force. Here's Nine Ways Citizen Journalists Can Cover the Election Tomorrow

I thought I'd put myself in the dragons den, start saying a bit more about Health 2.0 and see if it makes sense. The first mini essay is about software development and is posted on the Health Perspectives website.

The Copyright Licensing Agency is looking for a new Chief Executive Officer - six figure salary + bonus + benefits

Tim Berners Lee: Blogging is great

Walt Crawford has a useful overview of recent developments at Wikipedia and Citizendium

Add Live Search Box to your website

Online drawing tool: Cumulate Draw

One interdace not two: IEEE Spectrum: The Firefox Kid: "Just as with Firefox, Ross began this project by asking himself one simple question: What’s bad about today’s software?

The answer, he and his programming partner, Joe Hewitt, decided, resided in the gap between the desktop and the Web. “Right now, people want to shuffle around content,” he says, “but the world’s fused together by a collection of hacks.” Something that should be simple, say, getting photos from a digital camera onto the Web, is a Sisyphean task for most people. “Step back and ask, ‘What’s wrong with this picture?’”"

solar wifi

review: social networks

Beyond pure web and pure desktop apps

Ever dream of running hundreds of thousands of blogs with a single install of WordPress?

Open FRBR

Kim Cameron - the 8th law of identity

Pew Internet, Susannah Fox: Online Health Search 2006 (pdf)

• Eight in ten internet users go online for health information.
• Ten million American adults look online for health information on a typical day.
• The typical search for health information online starts at a search engine, includes multiple sites, and is undertaken on behalf of someone other than the person doing the search.
• Most health seekers are pleased about what they find online, but some are frustrated or confused.
• Three-quarters of health seekers do not consistently check the source and date of the health information they find online.
• Successful health information searches may bolster health seekers’ confidence.

The private right to copy should be enshrined in UK law according to IPPR. While this might help clarify the right for NHS staff to copy journal articles, a more direct approach would be for researchers to retain some rights over their papers, including the right for papers to be freely copied, and for journal publishers to include the right to copy as part of their contracts with the NHS.

coming soon... daylife - a distributed journalism platform.

Joe Kraus (CEO JotSpot): What is a wiki? This manages to be a learning object without a whole bunch of metadata. More Google/Jot analysis here and here.

First report on Scrybe beta suggests it is tackling the online-offline issue.

O'Reilly - Google's acquisition of Jotspot

September snapshot of digital Britain: good news for Google, podcasting and wifi; not so good news for Ask, Windows Live, Dogpile, RSS and wikis.