Nice video shows how hidden structured data from the Drupal content management system can lead to semantic search

(Cross-posted at johnbreslin.com/blog.) Via Drupal creator Dries Buytaert‘s post entitled RDFa and Drupal and Stéphane Corlosquet‘s post about RDFa and Drupal examples and use cases, there is a really cool video that demonstrates how the structured data that is available in many Drupal deployments (but is difficult to leverage due to HTML representations) can be [...]

boards.ie SIOC Data Competition moves start date to 1st September

Signups are now being accepted for the boards.ie SIOC Data Competition, and data sets will be made available to verified accounts for download from the 1st September 2008. The new closing date for the competition is the 31st October 2008. The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway is running a unique competition from [...]

Measure your digital status with QDOS

Garlik, a UK company that focuses on personal information control, have recently launched the QDOS site (pronounced “kudos”, and no, it’s nothing to do with the old operating systems of the same name) for measuring your “digital status” or estimated online rating. According to the creators: With QDOS, 45 million UK adults now have a [...]

Newstalk: Government to use social networking websites to highlight dangers of drugs following Waterford house party

From Ireland’s Newstalk radio news today: The Government’s planning on using Facebook and Bebo to try to warn people of the dangers of illegal drugs. The news comes as two people remain in a critical condition in hospital, and more than a dozen others were treated after a 21st birthday party in Waterford. The Minister [...]

Will OpenSocial enable social network portability?

What does OpenSocial offer in the way of being able to transfer your social network profile and contacts across networks? It’s the question that has been on many lips, from Tim O’Reilly to Tantek Celik, but a hint that this may in fact be possible recently appeared in the OpenSocial documentation for hosting applications with [...]

Seesmic pre-alpha release

(Sorry for the lack of updates recently. I was attending some conferences for the past two weeks, and I will post links to my reports soon.) As originally rumoured on Scobleizer and announced on TechCrunch recently, Loic Le Meur‘s newest startup called “Seesmic” is a microvlogging service in the style of sites like Twitter (such [...]

Eco Treadsetters: Yokohama Tyre Corp. gets ‘traction’ with Pringo SNS

In the niche SNS area, Yokohama Tyre Corporation recently implemented the Pringo white-label SNS solution for their “online presence and green marketing initiative” called Eco Treadsetters. LA-based marketing agency PCGCampbell built the site using Pringo so that Yokohama consumers across the US could communicate with each other, create and navigate custom profiles, form sub-communities, and [...]

Nooooooo… I want my Chumby!

(I got my invite today to buy a Chumby, but apparently they don’t do shipping outside the US.) Here’s an extract from the Wikipedia definition if you haven’t already heard about them: Chumby is a consumer product created by Chumby Industries slated to go on sale in November of 2007. It is designed as an [...]

Twine in invite-only beta

At the 2007 Web 2.0 Summit today, Radar Networks are officially announcing the invite-only beta version of Twine, a new service that uses the power of Semantic Web to enable an intelligent way of sharing, organising and finding information. During today’s 4 PM panel (that also features Powerset’s Barney Pell, Metaweb’s Daniel Hillis and Web [...]

ThinkWeb20: a ratings directory for Web 2.0 sites

There has been some blog comment ‘promotional marketing’ going on for a new directory specifically for Web 2.0 sites called “Think Web 2.0″ (due to the language used on the site, I believe it may be from France, but the WHOIS shows a private registration). The site allows users to submit sites to the directory, [...]