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By: SitePoint » SVG Is The Future Of Application Development

SitePoint » SVG Is The Future Of Application Development — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:30:43 +0000

[...] A marriage of “lickable” graphics with semantic content is precisely what we’ve been after for years now. Interfaces built with the combination of HTML and CSS just aren’t capable of providing fancy GUIs, but as this was never what that technology was designed for, that limitation shouldn’t be a surprise. On the other hand, every application has some data associated with it and if Web “mash-ups” have taught us one thing, it’s that one application’s data is far more useful when combined with another application’s data. Lucky for us, describing data and its relationship with other data is a natural fit for standard Web technologies like XHTML and RDFa. [...]

By: RDFa, Web Development Standards, & SEO - KoMarketing Associates

RDFa, Web Development Standards, & SEO - KoMarketing Associates — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:02:16 +0000

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By: Fahdi’s Personal Blog » Thanks Rasmus Lerdorf, you made my day

Fahdi’s Personal Blog » Thanks Rasmus Lerdorf, you made my day — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:45:04 +0000

[...] rich search you also get enhanced search results. I have blogged about this previously so take a look. It is really cool stuff and I will be discussing it in much more detail over the course of the [...]

By: SitePoint Blogs » Rasmus Lerdorf - PHP frameworks? Think again.

SitePoint Blogs » Rasmus Lerdorf - PHP frameworks? Think again. — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:11:00 +0000

By: AppzDrive.com » Blog Archive » RDFa and Yahoo SearchMonkey

AppzDrive.com » Blog Archive » RDFa and Yahoo SearchMonkey — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:27:10 +0000

[...] Why RDFa is the only Web scaleable metadata format for next-generation search engines — David Peterson, sitepoint Blog. [...]

By: Nodalities » Blog Archive » This Week’s Semantic Web

Nodalities » Blog Archive » This Week’s Semantic Web — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:07:40 +0000

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By: More semantics in Yahoo searches courtesy of Microformats :: Coding and Dreaming

More semantics in Yahoo searches courtesy of Microformats :: Coding and Dreaming — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:03:25 +0000

[...] really have time at the moment to get into a full-on Microformats chit-chat, I did however find this article on SitePoint authored by David Peterson that goes into some depth as to why it might be better to [...]

By: Scott Brinker

Scott Brinker — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:45:21 +0000

Excellent points on RDFa vs. microformats. I find the arguments on scalability and mixability particularly compelling, as it clearly provides much more flexibility to site owners to tailor their semantic web presence.

Thanks for the comment on my blog — folks who read my post on marketing implications [1] of this move by Yahoo! will find it very interesting.

[1] http://www.chiefmartec.com/2008/03/seo-semantic-we.html

By: david.seth.p

david.seth.p — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 13:07:56 +0000

Philip – I can think of one other problem.. no one’s worried about it right now, but what happens when metaspam comes?

There are a lot of people thinking about this; here is someone inside Yahoo itself [1].

[1] http://dubinko.info/blog/2008/03/13/the-lowercase-semantic-web-goes-mainstream/

By: david.seth.p

david.seth.p — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:03:58 +0000

Daniel O’Connor – Boo hoo! When it’s as easy as it is with GRDDL, I’m really, really not fussed.

Imagine: I make a new microformat, and I take the time to make a profileTransformation – this problem is lessened dramatically.

It is not *just me* saying this. Yahoo will only support 5 microformats, Firefox 3 [1] will also only support 5 microformats.

The fundamental problem with microformats is that there is no standard model so no standard way to extract them from pages. There is no way around it. And when big players with a lot of resources put their support only behind a small subset it really makes it clear that microformats don’t work on the scale of the global linked Web.

[1] http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Using_microformats