Posted by Randy on 21st October 2009
What is OpenCalais, and what is this semantic web stuff all about? Sure I watched the video on their site, and read through the documentation. Somehow this all will make web content in general, and these blog posts in particular, easier to find and link with other relevant information. Which all sounds good, but I want to see it in action. So I installed their Tagaroo WordPress plug-in.
The most immediate change is the addtion of the tagaroo tag area, which suggest tags based on the post content. It is pretty cool too, as it dynamically updates and suggest new tags as you add content. It also has a Flickr image suggestion bar, which isn’t working at the moment, but also doesn’t hold any interest for me — I don’t see how random Flickr image additions enhance this content. I went back to a recently published post and added in all of the suggest semantic tags. When looking at the page mark-up I don’t see any indication of tagaroo/opencalais’ presence. Maybe it is posting information back to the OpenCalais servers? I did need to register for an API key. I’ll play with it a little more, but if it helps make this content more semantic, then why not?
How Does Calais Work? | OpenCalais
We want to make all the world’s content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or the Giant Global Graph – we call our piece of it Calais.
Oracle Database integrates OpenCalais | OpenCalais
Tight integration empowers Oracle Spatial 11g Release 2 users to deploy production-strength semantic solutions with unprecedented speed.
wordpress | OpenCalais
Tagaroo provides automated tag generation and image location for WordPress bloggers. We like Tagaroo so much that we gave him his own website. If you’re a WordPress blogger and would like to integrate Calais functionality directly within your blogging life then hop on over to Tagaroo.
Tagaroo » Make blogging better!
Tagaroo is designed to make your WordPress blog better for you, better for your readers and more accessible to search engines. As you’re writing, Tagaroo analyzes the text in your post and suggests intelligent tags for the things and events you’re writing about.
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Posted by Randy on 12th October 2009
PBS and NPR have teamed up with local public stations to offer the Forum Network — a library of lectures on a wide range of topics. They have some interesting content, and overall the site looks nice. And there is a lecture that I would like to listen to, on my mobile device (Blackberry or iPod) while commuting on the train. But I can’t figure out how to do it. I try the download link, which promises to provide an MP3 — it actually delivers a file in an flv format, which is tough to play — VLC did the trick, but what a pain. I tried to access the site through the Blackberry mobile browser — the player won’t load, and the site it pretty tough to navigate — a mobile style sheet would be nice. They offer an RSS podcast feed, but it is so general I have little confidence that it would supply the specific lecture I want.
These days, IMHO, with this type of resource you START with a mobile strategy — and then fill in the traditional computer-based-browser delivery as phase 2. The end result will be a more flexible and robust application, that better meets the needs of a diverse audience. I bet it would also be a cheaper and easier development cycle — the mobile approach forces more focus on function and essential features, so by the time you get to the traditional delivery you’ll realize you don’t need all the extra window dressing these media-heavy sites always seem to provide.
Jake Shapiro – Open Content and Public Broadcasting: Future Business Models | Free Lecture | Forum Network from PBS and NPR
Open Content and Public Broadcasting: Future Business Models, September 20, 2006, Jake Shapiro Executive Director PRX, Berkman Center Fellow
About the Forum Network | Forum Network | Free Online Lectures from PBS and NPR
The Forum Network online library features thousands of lectures by some of the world’s foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers and community leaders, available to citizens of the world for free.
VLC v1.0.2 (open source)
VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
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