Telling semantic lies

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Inspired by conversations with some smart people at a recent Semantic Web Austin event, I've undertaken to restart my education on semantic web technologies like RDF, RDFa, Microformats, etc. When I wear my web developer hat, I'm definitely an advocate of clean semantic markup that correctly describes the structure of ...

Towards the Web OS

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Cesar Torres analyzed the new Facebook profile design yesterday as did TechCrunch. Both come to the same conclusion: Facebook is trying to become a web operating system. Both cite the use of a Mac OSX-style menu design (a weak indicator of an "OS" in my opinion) but Cesar goes farther ...