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1995 (and the early 90’s) must have been a visionaries time of dreaming… most of their dreams are happening today.
Watch Steve Jobs (then of NeXT) discuss what he thinks will be popular in 1996 and beyond at OpenStep Days 1995:

“The Future of Objects, 3/5″ by Steve Jobs (YouTube Video)
“The Future of Objects, 4/5″ by Steve […]

OK. It’s a funny title for a blog post, but it is an acronym which I don’t want to start up as a buzzword, but it where I see things going.
A lot of people know about Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), its a set of protocols and formats to allow you to just plug a […]

I’ve decided two things to do for the StraightWalker wordpress theme:

Start an independent StraightWalker blog (with the latest release). DONE: http://vanirsystems.com/straightwalker
Release the code on googlcode. DONE: http://code.google.com/p/straightwalker/

I haven’t had much chance to look at the bug that is causing problems loading up specific posts/pages, and hopefully I will be able to soon. The code […]

The Tribes of the Semantic Web
There are actually tribes within the Semantic Web:

These include:

The Linked Data Purist
The Semantic Annotator
The Semantics Purist
The Semantic Insider

Generally this is because they prefer a certain architecture over another, but I am not saying that each is exclusive. There are people in the community which straddle two or more of the […]

I hoped to have a mini reports done day-by-day, but a restricted Internet service at my hotel and the venue meant that I wasn’t as able to as I wanted. So here it is, a bigger report. I’ll do it in an interview style.
What was XTech 2008 generally about?
XTech 2008 was about “The Web on […]

StraightWalker is a new Wordpress 2.3 Theme (not sure whether it works on 2.5), which I (Daniel Lewis) have developed. It is made specifically to be:

Completely valid XHTML 1.0 Strict (some of the code base is from the Cutline theme, but I’ve highly modified it)
Adds a few hCard based microformats (establishing POSH)
Adds some XHTML meta […]

ok the schedule for XTech2008:

Day -1 (today, 4th May 2008): The day before I take the plane to Dublin… at my parents house in North West Kent!
Day 0 (tomorrow, 5th May 2008 = UK Public Holiday): I get the plane from Gatwick airport and arrive in Dublin. Try to find my way from Dublin airport […]

So I have talked about how RDF is really simple, and why Linked Data are the roots of the web… but we need a way of serving this data in a meaningful way, this is where the Data Server steps in!
The allegory continues……

Here we see our home-grower digging up some potatoes.
The potatoes are Linked […]

OK, so in my last post (”RDF: Simpler if you look at it in a different way“) I said that RDF is a modeling framework to link data together in the form of object to object relationships, I briefly mentioned some “vocabularies” (aka ontologies) and some formats (e.g. Notation3, RDF/XML). I want to mention again […]

I have figured out why some people are reluctant to use RDF, and its because they are seeing it as a format and not a model. RDF is a modeling framework, it is not a format!
RDF is supposed to be understood in a visual way:

Which is essentially understood as a triple of URIs:
<http://myopenlink.net/dataspace/person/danieljohnlewis#this> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/made><http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oWfaoP1Ti2Q>
And […]