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The Linking Open Data Community had some awesome news today, Drupal version 7 will run on an entirely RDF base, will expose that RDF and be able to import RDF. This is awesome news, but it gets even better! Drupal 7 will be Linked Data enhanced too! <insert-big-smiley-face-here>.
This has been documented in some detail on […]

[Note]This is an adapted version of a comment that I wrote responding to the mentioned blog article. I copy it here in case my comment doesn’t get approved, I have also embedded semantics into this copy and changed a few bits[/Note]
Ian Davis posted “Web 3G: The Third Generation of the Web” at 2:19am this morning. […]

What DataPortability Is:
I just spent my Sunday evening (from about 6pm GMT until 9:30pm GMT) having a discussion about what data portability is exactly. Here is my first informal definition, which seems to fit the general idea that was being talked about.
First things first. DataPortability is a brand… its a kind of un-organisation (a bit […]

Here is my DataPortabilityAndMe video
John Breslin’s DataPortabilityAndMe Video is also good, and so is Ian Forrester’s DataPortabilityAndMe Video.
Technorati Tags: DataPortabilityAndMe, dataportability, semanticweb, web

Some people have written up about SemanticCamp on their blog posts, here are the ones that I know of (in no particular order):

Daniel Lewis : “SemanticCampLondon - Quick Review“
Yves Raimond: “Yay for SemanticCamp!“
Frances Berriman: “SemanticCamp London“
Jeremy Keith: “Semantopoly“
Tom Heath: “Saturday and Sunday at SemanticCamp“
Benjamin Nowack: “Back from SemanticCamp London“
Andrew Walkingshaw: “Semantic Camp London“
Glenn Jones: “Semantic […]

DataPortability - The Pros
If you were not aware there is a movement going on at the moment called the DataPortability initiative. This initiative has been set up to try to:

show users of web systems (in particular Social Networking systems) that they currently don’t have full control over the information that they put onto systems
assist developers […]

Hello,
I was at Oxford Geek Night 5 last night to announce BarCampOxford stuff, except I kinda messed it up:

(photo taken by Alex Blok of O’Wonder)
The messing up was probably due to a number of reasons:

My co-organiser (Pete Cooper) not being there because of illness, and being told about that a couple of hours before […]

Just a note to say that if you are in the Oxford area on the 6th February (2008) then please, please come to the Oxford Geek Night 5. Its at the Jericho Tavern Pub in Oxford and starts at 7:30pm. It features a bit of socialising, a bit of watching presentations and some fun.
If you […]

A few days ago I mentioned that I was building a “Comparison of Twine and ODS“, well its done. I do have some missing information, stuff that I need to find out about Twine and Weave.
The most important thing to note here is that ODS is the most feature-full and configurable tool out of the […]

Two questions that I get asked every now and then are:

“Why does Social Networking matter?”
“Why does the Semantic Web matter?”

I’ll attempt to answer in as few words as possible, but giving enough meaning.
Why the Social Web matters
The Social Web (or Social Networking) matters because it allows people to communicate where it has not been possible […]