the nature and uses of bibliographic metadata « Jon Udell

Jon Udell and Stuart Weibel discuss the nature and uses of bibliographic metadata

Watch Wikipedia being edited

WikipediaVision (beta) maps the location of wikipedia edits as they happen.

The IT Civil War

CPILive: "Consumerisation is becoming a catalyst for the growing conflict between the “traditional” enterprise IT function, which has historically maintained sole authority over enterprise IT architecture, and the growing desire and ability of individual employees to increasingly influence their use of IT."

Google OpenSocial

Google OpenSocial To Launch Thursday says Techcrunch. Ahead of Facebook's advertising platform presumably.

Microsoft Heath update

Mary Foley: When will Microsoft drop the other health-service shoe? In addition to the services referred to Microsoft can boast a Common User Interface and a health enterprise architecture - Microsoft Health is more extensive and complete than Google Health just now.

Microformats vs. RDF

unhappiness in the RDF world concerning microformats

Taking web apps to the desktop - Prism

Mozilla Talks Up Prism: convergence between desktop and web can happen from desktop-to-web (Microsoft) or Web-to-desktop (Google). News now of some Mozilla Firefox developments that take the web first route, which is preferable with more people spending time online as a matter of routine.

The web identity layer

FriendFeed could be part of the web's missing identity layer.

eHealth Initiative's Blueprint

Building Consensus for Common Action summarises the consensus about eHealth in the US in 2007

Tools for simple website creation

A school project to create a web site. Web 2.0 tools compared were Synthasite Sampa Webation Squarespace and Weebly

Clear winner was Weebly - see http://canonfromeinfo.weebly.com - good enough for creating a simple web presence.

Nowhere to hide

Salesforce AppExhange Facebook connector - those nights on the town will soon be part of your HR record.

Google’s new mantra

Making the Web a better platform for all: quotes from Eric Schmidt an Vic Gundotra on Google's plans to drive openness and innovation by open sourcing some of its products:

"Gundotra wasn’t forthcoming on what other technologies would be open sourced, but creating an identity fabric for the Web, a distributed social graph and mobile and data interchange standards are logical candidates. “You can foreshadow what Google will do by looking at what we have done,” Gundotra said. “We will use simple, open Internet standards and make them available.”"

boost for OA in US

Peter Suber reports that US Senate passes OA mandate bill

Otlet = Brin

Paul Otlet has much in common with Sergey Brin (and Larry Page) , except they found a business model for their vision and he didn't.

testing glog.gears

testing

testing Flock

this is just a test entry on Flock

Blogged with Flock

Web 2.0 conference

Web 2.0 conf.: Gadget or Widget? It’s the progammable Web

$99 linux-cloud PC killer

The real Fake Steve Jobs loves Zonbu a Menlo Park produced no-hassle linux based computer that hooks up to Amazon S3. With the new Nokia N810 the network computing sector looks very strong at the moment.

Michael Cross on NPfIT

Michael Cross: "Thanks to many perceived and some actual failures of the NHS IT programme in England, enthusiasm for making e-enabled changes in healthcare processes is probably lower than it was a decade ago. With the programme apparently leaderless and imploding, there's little sign of change."

Web 2.0 Summit: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook

Web 2.0 Summit: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook: "'The early guys who built the company, we discussed building the development platform before we actually built Facebook. It's been incredibly humbling to see all these people developing; we made a conscious decision that we wanted to release this very quickly. Let's get this thing out in the world and see how people are going to use. It's going to take 30 years - or tens of years - before this becomes a really mature platform. It's just been amazing.'"

Microsoft goes Web 2.0 with Sharepoint « Scobleizer

Microsoft is stepping up its entry into Web 2.0 by teaming up with Atlassian despite the fact that MOSS includes a wiki. Didn't it do this with Socialtext last year?

Unified Communications in Healthcare

Microsoft is talking up Unified Communications in Healthcare

The Tao of XDI: Adopting Evolution

The Tao of XDI: Adopting Evolution: "So I have been asking myself; why has OpenID grabbed so much popularity while SAML, a much more mature, academically respected, ‘robust’ specification has been largely ignored by the cutting edge web 2.0 community"

Arthritis Care : Video diaries by people like us

Arthritis Care : Video diaries can certainly be classed as Health 2.0. Interesting to compare this approach to DiPEX

Let's define SOA

IBM has a good definition - "'SOA is the architectural style that supports loosely coupled services to enable business flexibility in an interoperable, technology-agnostic manner. SOA consists of a composite set of business-aligned services that support a flexible and dynamically re-configurable end-to-end business processes realization using interface-based service descriptions.'"

Against complexity in standards

One interesting point in the Jon Udell Peter Neupert interview is that HealthVault is using the CCR standard not HL7. This makes sense as the comparison between CCR and HL7 (pdf) indicates. However Peter Neupert also suggests that too much complexity has been engineered in (or tried to be engineered in) to the standards used in health care IT. And that a simpler, more pragmatic, stepwise approach might be more beneficial. I agree.

HealthVault!

Channel 9 has Jon Udell and Peter Neupert discussing HealthVault:

People want to be able to collect, and securely store, and share their private health care information which is today scattered all over the place, with doctor A and doctor B and hospital C, and wherever they were born. When you need it, it's very hard to recreate. If you're the family health manager -- the mom trying to take care of the kids -- you'd like to have all that in one spot. And oh by the way, by having that data in a data store that's accessible to third party applications, you might be able to get more value out of it.

Planet of Slums

Reading Planet of Slums I'm struck by the number of references to obscure newsletters and reports. Not samizdat of course, but literature nullified by our present media and more difficult to obtain and use than "grey literature".

Dapper Facebook AppMaker

Dapper has released its Facebook AppMaker, betting on Facebook as platform.

Cardspace and public computers

Is CardSpace in the Cards for Your Web Site?: "using CardSpace to log in to Web sites from public computers is currently problematic. Basically, you have to export your information cards from your main PC to something like a USB key, and import them to the public computer (remembering to delete them after you’re done)."

RDF+OWL....

Nodalities on Future of Web Apps I didn't get there of course, but I noticed the reported comment from Dapper that RDF+OWL doesn't work. But then does Dapper work? Semantic Web - top down or bottom up?

UC Berkeley Puts Courses On YouTube

UC Berkeley Puts Courses On YouTube who says you can't afford to attend an American University?

On non-innovation at Microsoft

Dave Winer reckons that Microsoft held back in the 1990s from IE becoming a writing tool in order to protect their profits from Office - the end of the road for MS Office: "If instead, Microsoft had embraced the web, and with it the shift in their product line and economics, in 1995, we'd have a much richer writing environment today. Blogging would have happened sooner, in a bigger way. It's hard to imagine how much the sins of Microsoft cost all of us."

TRIP Users

TRIP is getting traffic

Facebook

Medway wants to ban it; CISCO wants to fan it; Stanford intends to plan it.

Microsoft Live Search and Spaces

I dragged myself away from Google to the new Microsoft Live. First impressions? It's trying too hard to be helpful. A search on Roland Barthes produces some okay results, but also some related topics (the first of which is Roland Barthes Neutral - hitting this doesn't seem to do anything. Roland Barthes published a book called The Neutral...) Anyway, there is also a very long list of related people down the right hand side (thanks but erm, not much use). In short, nothing compelling.

As for Spaces, see above - its just too clunky. Looks a bit like an Access form.