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Akamai’s State of the Art – Internet

Keibi’s Knowledge Center

You can thank me later. If you know or bump into another interesting resource center, please let me know!

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/06/finally-a-web-based-pdf-viewer-that-does-not-suck-issuu/

Very useful for the Revista and other heavy, yet eye-catchy, documents.

There’s iPaper too –this one allows AdSense in the doc, how cool is that.

Check it out – USAID and the NYT both purchased “beef recall” as a keyword, seizing an amazing opportunity to turn in lots of visits to their websites based on a piece of news.

Around these parts (read: yuppie Washington, DC), the trend for small nonprofits is to take Drupal and run with it. Tonight at our Netsquared meeting (newly hosted at Google DC) people pretty much obsessed about it and how it could be more aptly leveraged on behalf of Oneworld.net.

The thing is, while Drupal is all well and good, I’ve seen some great work with Joomla out there. Part of me is curious whether the reason Drupal is so big around here is simply because the community of people who know anything about tech started with it. And it consequently took on a life of its own from there.

The debate rages.

Ok… not quite rages, but at least it’s a good question. The answer as to which is better seems to be something to the effect of “it depends…”

Anyone “out there” have experience or strong feelings about either?

When it comes to nonprofits, the social sector, using technology and the like, it’s simply incredible that either tool is available for free to a small or young organization to build with. In many ways it’s Joomla and Drupal that form the heart of the hypothetical “on demand nonprofit” that can be supplemented with free operations-oriented tools from the likes of Salesforce and Google – which have been all the fashion of late.

Going back to Oneworld.net (a robust and growing organization/website to be sure) as an example; they are able to receive about 80,000 visits a month and aggregate news worldwide while implementing many social networking features. All with a staff of 4 who mostly don’t do tech. As they grow from here, they can do much more with other free tools and aggregated content on top of their Drupal base.

They probably could have done roughly the same things with Joomla, though. And thus it seems, the question remains.

Whatever the right answer for an organization, it’s important they choose what they will be built on wisely.
But how do you make that choice?

Let me jump down to the last:

11. Semantic Web will leverage the “community” to add structure and this will use some techniques from first generation Social Networking. But it is very unlikely that Semantic Web will emerge from the walled gardens of current social networking sites. The winners will know how to motivate community to provide structure and will provide the tools that make the structuring so easy that nobody knows they are doing anything so boring as structuring. That is the big lesson from Web 2.0 that will be applied in the Semantic Web.

Here’s the complete list. Enjoy!

Thus microformats are developed in line with “plain old semantic HTML” (POSH) practices and principles, that is, as valid semantic extensions to HTML. Semantic HTML by itself enables sharing open content with headings, paragraphs, and lists, etc. Microformats build upon that foundation, reusing rather than reinventing (i.e. XOXO reuses HTML for lists and nested lists for outlines, rather than inventing new tags or vocabulary), and extending only for commonly published semantics beyond HTML, such as contact information, events, reviews, episodic content, etc.

Here: http://microformats.org/

Here’s a cool introductory paper to the semantic web + AI http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin/homepage/publications/airedux.pdf

And here’s a very good introduction to the OWL language:

http://www.ibiblio.org/hhalpin/homepage/publications/airedux.pdf

Does anybody know who or what is the place researching on AI and semantic web right now?