Inertia and momentum. That's what the Semantic Web needs. It needs volume, too. At JavaOne, Henry Story demoed the new Beatnik semantic web browser. Among other things, he fired it up as a client app, then surfed to a website using Firefox and saw the FOAF icon on a web page, then as if by magic, dragged and dropped the icon from the webpage on Firefox to the Beatnik browser.
A column of information on Beatnik was populated with the friend of a friend info for the person in question (I think it was a Henry Story). Looked like Tim Berners-Lee was a friend, so Henry clicked on his name in Beatnik and a new column was populated with Tim's friends names. Henry showed us how he enabled a geolocation feature with map data, so you could look at where friends were based and currently located. This opened up search possibilities for, say, friends who like folk music and guitar bars who were at JavaOne and near the Haight, now.
Now, if you look closely at the source of my posts, you‘ll discover some subtle coding. For example, look at the URL pointing to the image displayed on this post. Then, click the post and see where it takes you. But, how much time and imagination do we have to poke around viewing source of blog posts from lunatics like Swampcast? Why not do it in a predictable way and let our CPU‘s deal with the machine readable code?
Something tells me Kebernet might have a handle on how to do it using Java and GWT...at least easier than by hand.
Alice‘s cleartext
Charlie is the attacker
Bob signs and encrypts
That‘s Henry and Michael discussing the finer points. Looks like a conspiracy to me:
Stay tuned!
