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RDF

Threadneedle and RSS

The problem with a developer being around during the design phase of an application is that the developer tends to pull things back to an implementation viewpoint – we can’t help ourselves. However, a discussion about ThreadNeedle and RSS is, I feel, important at this time. Why am I not creating ThreadNeedle as a new […]

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Specs

Web Services Working Group

I’m extremely pleased to see the formation of a new working group at the W3C. It will be responsible for generating some meaning of the chaos that is Web Services. I may not be an adherent of the “Standards at all cost” club, but we do need to have standardization in three specific areas: Protocols Syntax Semantics Syntax is […]

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Web

A Common Interface

When people say something I want to respond to, I respond to it. And other people are, hopefully, responding to me if I say something interesting. When I respond to what others write, it is a compliment. It means that what was said definitely got my interest, regardless of whether I agree with what was […]

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Web

Future of the Web

Recovered from the Wayback Machine When people say something I want to respond to, I respond to it. And other people are, hopefully, responding to me if I say something interesting. When I respond to what others write, it is a compliment. It means that what was said definitely got my interest, regardless of whether […]

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Legal, Laws, and Regs RDF

RDF patent dispute

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Over at the RDF interest online forum, at least two developers of implementations based on RDF have received a legal mailing from a firm representing Unified Data Technologies Ltd (UDTL), implying a possible patent infringement due to the use of RDF/RSS. The RDF working group is consulting with the W3C […]