Archives for Microcontent

The Pattern of Social Technology Evolution

Posted on February 28, 2004 by Nova in Business, Technology, Web/Tech | 10 Comments

Here is my strategic outlook on the evolution of online technologies: past, present and future. Please see the table below. Commentary follows the table…

	Content	Communication	Collaboration	Community	Commerce
1980’s The Net	Desktop Publishing	Phone, Fax, Email	Database Applications	BBS’s & On-line Services	Phone, Fax, Early EDI
1990’s The Web	Web Publishing & Web Sites	PIM’s, E-mail & IM, Phone, Fax	Groupware, KM, and Intranets	Web Portals	Web Stores & Marketplaces
2000’s The Metaweb	Weblogs & RSS (“Microcontent” and “Personal Publishing”)	E-Mail, Webmail, IM, VOIP, Video Conferencing & Web Conferencing	Wikis, Decentralized Collaboration & Semantic Webs	Social Networks & “Friendsware”	XML Web Services & Web Services Exchanges
2010’s The Semantic Web	K-logs, Lifelogs & Personal Portals Microcontent becomes primary enterprise KM medium.

Semantic Web Officially Approved by W3C

Posted on February 11, 2004 by Nova in Technology, Web/Tech | Leave a comment

Huge news for the Semantic Web — the W3C has officially approved the RDF and OWL specs.

FABL: A New Programming Language Written in native RDF

Posted on February 10, 2004 by Nova in Technology, Web/Tech | 1 Comment

Jerry Michalski has just submitted a link to FABL, a new programming language for the Semantic Web, that is entirely written in native RDF… very interesting… What do you think of this?