Posts tagged web semantics

Links for 2008-07-06

• Why the BBC removed Microformat DateTime patterns from bbc.co.uk… [BBC Internet Blog]
• DateTime design pattern [Microformats wiki]
• Gestures are the new multi-touch? [Ben Hanbury]
• Pies are great [Neil McIntosh]

Links for 2008-07-03

• Warning to copyright enforcers: Three strikes and you’re out [Guardian]
• Hackers fan the flames of imagination at Mashed [Guardian]
• London SearchMonkey Developer Evening a great success [Yahoo Developer Network blog]
• Firefox download record official [BBC]
• The machine that copies itself [Guardian]
• Merger forms transatlantic union [BBC]

Links for 2008-06-27

• TV consumers ‘do not understand’ digital message [Guardian]
• What does Microsoft really want? [All Things Digital]
• Yahoo’s executive tumult: can they make yogurt out of sour milk? [paidContent]
• Microformats and RDFa and RDF [BBC Radio Labs]

Yahoo SearchMonkey evening

Went to the Yahoo SearchMonkey Developer Event last night.

Presentations by the developers of SearchMonkey was followed by a lively debate.

To quote from the SearchMonkey developer home page:

Using SearchMonkey, developers and site owners can use structured data to make Yahoo! Search results more useful and visually appealing, and drive more relevant traffic to their sites.

SearchMonkey seems to be one of few innovative developments in search over the past few years.

Looking forward to meeting again those from the London web development community I shared a beer with last night at this great event.

Links for 2008-06-22

• Leaked report for NHS reveals full extent of Lorenzo slippage [Guardian]
• Awesome progress on video timestamping [mySociety]
• We’re all ops people now [Behind the Times]
• Plain old semantic HTML (POSH) [Microformats]
• One tonne ‘Baby’ marks its birth [BBC]

Links for 2008-06-15

• Phoenix Mars Lander delivers soil sample to microscope [NASA]
• Yahoo! succumbs to the power of Google [Observer]
• I’m searching for Google alternatives [Guardian]
• Semantic web - why bother? [Tom Scott]
• How to publish linked data on the web [Freie Universität Berlin]
• BECTU’s response to PSB review [BECTU]

Yahoo goes semantic

Yahoo has announced support for semantic web standards as part of its search system.

This is definitely excellent news!

Here’s some commentary on the announcement.