Comments on: POWDER – A More Personal, Trustworthy Web

By: Антон

Антон — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 10:22:42 +0000

Недвижимость в деталях…

При этом самая убогая однокомнатная стоит уже 140 тысяч (SitePoint POWDER – A More Personal, Trustworthy Web)….

By: martin

martin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:30:33 +0000

Looks very interesting indeed – even to connect to somebody in a social network protocol sense (stygma) – for the majority of ppl, is to have met them. If I can make trivial connections without the social attachment of having to maintain or manage the realtionship, or even pass a very human credibility check – for one off collaborations based on similar interests of content – kabam, now that’s a connected web :-)

By: Mark Hammonds

Mark Hammonds — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:29:20 +0000

David,

Great article on POWDER. Prior to reading it I hadn’t even heard
of RDFa, but now I’m very excited about both of these
technologies as they seem to make a truly semantic web imminently
achievable.

In addition to your article, I also read the RDFa Primer from the
W3C, but I’m still having a bit of trouble understanding how
POWDER and RDFa work together. Is POWDER just another vocabulary
set that RDFa can use, much like dc and feof? Or is it something
completely different?

I apologize in advance for my ignorance of microformats, but
would greatly appreciate any enlightenment you can offer!

Best,
Mark H.

By: david.seth.p

david.seth.p — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:16:15 +0000

@meitar I see this giving SEO people a whole playground. Instead of using structured, semantic HTML and possibly some dodgy tricks, web sites can start to emit structured data. They don’t have to open up the piggy bank, but just a little structured metadata will go a long way.

By: meitar

meitar — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:00:37 +0000

This sounds very much like a move to compete with the recent launch of Ask.com’s “river of rich media” search results, where Ask.com gives you TV listings when you search for “Martha Stewart” (for example) because the search engine knows that “Martha Stewart” is a person and that she has a TV show with event times.

Or perhaps Ask.com’s recent “massive search improvements” a response to Yahoo!’s initiative? Ars Technica recently posted a fascinating piece about that.

Either way, it sounds like Semantic Web and SEO advocates are destined to spend additional time in a love-hate relationship thanks to brewing perfect storm in the search engine world. I think that’s a good thing. What’s a little love without a little hate?