Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.
(Via Swissmiss)
Writing Archive
HTML5 – and why should we all care?
Sweet! Flash enthusiasts might not 100% agree to all contra Flash aspects – but overall, nice job/ summary.
See large version on littlepixr’s Flickr.
(via swissmiss)
Google’s Goggles (labs) – impressive…
…actually: scarily impressive!!
Google Goggles is a visual search application, available on phones that run Android 1.6+.
As simple as:
Use pictures to search the web.
Google did it again: Google Wave Rocks!
This is truly amazingly hot stuff! … and – again – incredibly well engineered!! Honestly, I can’t wait to get my hands on Google Wave!
Actually I should say: Weaving and Surfing Waves! :-)
Google Wave is a new tool for communication and collaboration on the web, coming later this year. Watch the demo video below, sign up for updates and learn more about how to develop with Google Wave.
(Source: Google Wave Preview)
Resources
- Google Wave Preview
- waveprotocol.org – the homepage for the Google Wave Federation Protocol
- Google Wave API
Update: Meanwhile I managed to “play” at least a little bit with the Wave Sandbox – using the 2nd test account of a generous colleague (thx M.!) – while still waiting for my Wave Developer Account request to be processed.
Pretty impressed by the Wave UI but also wondering what the transformation management strategy of Google will look like when Wave hits the average users, as Wave clearly requires quite some rethinking…
Why does the Semantic Web matter: a Video Presentation in 5 Minutes
Well, simply because …
…a revolution is happening in the structure of the web itself. It’s gentle and it’s powerful, it’s like tai-chi: you hardly know that is happening, but when it hits, it has a massive impact.
(by Tom Llube, explaining the Semantic Web at the Davos economic forum.)
(via victorgodot.com)
Yes, that’s what the semantic web is about.
Why Open Web Standards matter: The Watery Web
Couldn’t agree more to the essence of the following great metaphor that I stumbled upon while reading the post Deconstructing Rich Internet Applications by Matthew Gertner:
“Think of the web, of the Internet itself, as water. Proprietary platforms based on the web are ice cubes. They can, for a time, suspend themselves above the web at large. But over time, they only ever melt into the water. And maybe they make it better when they do.“
(Via : Anil Dash: Blackbird, Rainman, Facebook and the Watery Web.)
Introduction to the Semantic Web
I found the following short (only 5 minutes) introduction to why the Semantic Web is important on the RDFa Wiki: very well done!
So in case I failed in spreading the word about Semantic Web to YOU – go and check out this video.
In case you are curious about RDFa: you might want to check out the following video as well. It teaches the basics of RDFa (in 8 minutes) – but, is aimed more at advanced web designers.
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