Silverlight as the UI for Semantic Web apps

jsimerman — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:57:00 GMT

This is a really interesting and energetic post byJose Fajardo on using Silverlight as the UI layer on top of Live Mesh to enable rich internet applications based on tagged(semantic) data. I'll be following the authors' progress. More interesting than that is another Mesh post by Steve Gillmore in which he describes the micro products of such companies with massive valuations like Twitter and Facebook in terms of products from the large corporations like Microsoft, and how Microsoft is starting to act like a startup again, among certain groups, with the introduction of Mesh and other online computing services that may be complement each other as mush as compete with each other. I think it's interesting that big companies may finally see the value of creating small products and releasing them into the wild without much deep planning. Let the users determine how and what the best use is, and survival of the fittest will take care of the rest. The internet really is an ecosystem, a vast expanse of information waiting to be utilized and organized in such a way that it has a value greater than what could previously be imagined. I think that's the whole point. Release the imagination from the contraints of overplanning and the future is wide open, which can be both exciting and scary depending on how you look at it. In future posts, I'll try to highlight varios ways to leverage Silverlight using distributed data sources. Let's hope that 2008 is the year that Web 2.0 begins to decline so that developers can begin to cultivate the Semantic Web in the great ecosystem of the internet.

Google = SkyNet ?

jsimerman — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:24:00 GMT

Check out - http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,1093558-1,00.html.

The point of the article is a new move by Google into yet another sector of information suppliers. GoogleNet (hence the title of this entry) aims to put free Wi-Fi wireless service across the country. Google gains the advantage of serving contextual ads targeted specifically at an individual’s physical location, with the hopes of increasing ad revenue by increasing the potential ROI of local advertising dollars. It could also expand Google’s overall market in the ad space by tempting the “last-mile” of small businesses that likely haven’t seen any advantage to the current methods of targeted internet advertising. In addition to potential ad revenue growth, Google will be helping to deliver broadband to a much broader audience, which increases the market for new applications such as video searches and Google Earth. According to company officials, there is no immediate threat of existing ISPs, who would likely find it difficult to compete with a free broadband service, but merely another attempt to fulfill the company’s mission to “organize the world's information and make it universally useful and accessible”. Competition is a great thing… just until they introduce a human-like machine who’s secret mission is to go back in time and eliminate Sarah Connor.

User Experience and the Semantic Web

Silverlight as the UI for Semantic Web apps

Google = SkyNet ?