FOAF vs. vCards- February 10, 2004 Tantek elik wonders what FOAF gets you over plain old vCards, an ages old technology that is already implemented in most e-mail clients, address books and cellphones and is still doing its job: (...) the biggest irony I see about FOAF is its name, which stands for "Friend of a Friend", and yet the technology has nothing to do with "friends". Like Jonas said, it's simply vCard recast in RDF, except for the "knows" relationship, which itself is quite meaningless (quite ironic for a Semantic Web.http://www.netalive.org/semantics/archives/2004/02/foaf_vs_vcards.html Progress update on Marusha, the semantic DJ- February 10, 2004 And another weekend I should have spent learning was just wasted for Marusha. Here comes a new screenshot for your viewing pleasure: I ran into a number of serious scaling issues on Friday. Adding the 16 million tracks from freedb.org to the parser's database really was the straw that broke the camel's back. Lesson learnt: There are types of queries that a relational database will never be able to run in acceptable time. Don't expect another update for a week or more - the exams will keep...http://www.netalive.org/semantics/archives/2004/02/progress_update.html Marusha is alive and kicking- February 5, 2004 In all seriousness, working on Marusha was one of the weirdest things I've ever done. But after two days of browsing, crawling and crosslinking the data that's out there, a first operational version is finally here. Marusha is currently processing 43,000 statements over the 3,900 songs I own. And it works well enough to be slightly scary at times. Expect more updates soon.http://www.netalive.org/semantics/archives/2004/02/marusha_is_aliv.html Marusha: Using semantic web concepts to create your own private DJ- February 3, 2004 With exams hovering over my head, I'm trying to save as much time as possible for my new pet project, Marusha. I'm sick of browsing my huge MP3 collection for songs I'd like to listen to. I've always envied how the people on Star Trek could walk into their apartment and tell the computer to "play something with Spanish guitars". In a sense this is what I'm attempting to do with Marusha. A local, intelligent MP3 server that keeps suggesting new songs to my playlist and learns from my decisions.http://www.netalive.org/semantics/archives/2004/02/marusha_using_s.html Mazzocchi on the Pedantic Web- February 3, 2004 Stefano Mazzocchi in a message to the Apache Community List: Moreover, in light in my semantic web involvement, I'm getting more and more unconfortable with RDF (see my semantic web fight club pictures in boston in the gallery at http:www.betaversion.orgstefano) and I'm more and more heading myself into the concept of 'data emergence' where you don't go around bothering people to markup their data as you like it, but you make an effort to collect their data and make a sense out of it.http://www.netalive.org/semantics/archives/2004/02/mazzocchi_on_th.html |