Archive for August, 2007

SWSE

SWSE
Semantic Web Search Engine SWSE, pronounced “swizzy”. Cool name ;)  I think it is different from Swoogle. Lets try.

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New book on the “Social Semantic Web”

 New book on the “Social Semantic Web”

It would  be great to have such a book. I think everyone agrees that the social web and the Semantic Web should converge. The Social Semantic Web is emerging out though there are several challenges ahead. All the best ;-)

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BlueBlog: Conference Tips for Startups: Where to go and what to do once you get there

BlueBlog: Conference Tips for Startups: Where to go and what to do once you get there

Nice tips. May be useful to me if I want to launch a Web 2.0 or 3.0 (or whatever) startup :)

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Injecting Facebook Data into the Semantic Data Web

Injecting Facebook Data into the Semantic Data Web

So Facebook will be producing Semantic Web data. I think it is a good initiative. Huge sites like this should start standardizing  their data now by using Semantic Web principles. If big players get involved, the Semantic Web vision may not be too far.

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Nepal’s Mahabir Pun receives Ramon Magsaysay Award

eKantipur.com - Nepal’s No.1 News Portal
Nepal’s Mahabir Pun receives Ramon Magsaysay Award for his innovative application of wireless internet technology to connect his remote village in Nepal to the global connected village. The story is really inspiring. This also proves the potential of the Internet and the Web in connecting people from the entire world and heading for progess. By connecting to this network even remote places in an underdeveloped country like Nepal can do business with the world. It is difficult to build roads and infrastructure in such places. But when we connect it to the Internet, it is instantly connected to the whole world, and there are whole lot of things that can be done on the Web. The network has really made the world a “Small World”.

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