Serendipity on the Web
I’ve been catching up on all my reading these last couple of weeks and I particularly liked “From X-Rays to Silly Putty via Uranus: Serendipity and its Role in Web Search”. It’s by Paul André from Southampton University together with Jaime Teevan and Susan Dumais from Microsoft Research. Louis Pasteur once famously said: “In the fields [...]

3 little books for managers
Having been a manager myself, and of course having been managed many times as well, I have come up with a list of books that pass on some important information and messages. The best managers inspire people, help them grow into their professions or bloom into another and they remain calm when the sea turns [...]

NY Times RDF
The New York Times has announced that it has made available RDF documents for us to use. They use 30,000 tags to power their Times Topics Pages and they intend to make them all available. They’ve also created a Google groups community for people to give feedback and share their experience with the data. The Linked [...]

7 Semantic web FireFox extensions
I’ve been using some add-ons for FireFox that enable me to investigate semantic mark-upon any given page if there is any on there. It’s good because it means I can begin to see which sites are all out on Semantic web and which ones aren’t yet. I’m definitely seeing a move towards more of [...]

SMORE: link up your data
Finally semantic web formats are becoming more mainstream, although many of us in the SEO world are considered slightly odd and confusing for adopting them. We are not alone, search engines have adopted both RDFa and Microformats so it’s not so crazy for web professionals to be paying attention to them. Yahoo has been on [...]