Thanks for your much more eloquent posting, but I was pleased to hear about this - whether or not Sloncek was very coherent, that he'd re-surfaced was news to me. I'm happy this is on Slashdot, whether you like the subsequent discussion or not. You clearly don't care enough to use your own username, anyway, so crawl back into your hole...
If anyone else is a little uncomfortable about the web app (if not to say 'Web 2.0') consolidation going on at the moment, especially wrt Yahoo, they may be interested to know about an alternative to Flickr.
It's called iMob and is run by the folks from Seattle Wireless.
It's not polished like Flickr, and I don't know how much usage it gets, but I figure that more people using it is only going to encourage further development of the site.
As for a non-corporate alternative to del.icio.us, that's less clear.
CiteULike is nice for academic papers, but Annotea Ubimarks might be the answer (plus they're nicely semantic web flavoured).
I suddenly stopped getting mod points too, and I can't figure out why.
Me too, it had better be nothing to do with pointing out what wastes of space BB and CZ are...
Still, I don't know why I should care - this place has really just descended into noise, and I honestly can't think of anything new I've learned here all year.
I wish there were a better (non Apple-specific) word, but blogcast isn't it - the implied semantics are all wrong. 'Syndicated audio' is more like it, but it's not catchy...
If they indeed do have/get some kind of monopoly in this market and start to abuse it they should also be held accountible according to the law, nobody is disputing that, so what's your point?
That they're already demonstrating that kind of behaviour (with the customers they have locked in with iPods), so that if they managed to build a monopoly (on music downloads) abuse would be inevitable.
In fact I believe any company that grows to be a monopoly, in a capitalist system, will act this way. But we sit back and passively create these monopolies and ask for it to be 'put right' after the fact.
Now I can see the advantage in moving to one telco, or moving to one hardware standard, or moving to one operating system (all monopolies that had to be broken), but I don't see why the sheep are all out buying (specifically) iPods (rather than MP3 Players) this Christmas...
This is the ulitmate did you even RTFA story. Looks like the editor and the submitter fell for it too.
This is the real point - the article may be interesting, but the Slashdot 'process' doesn't even understand how or why.
One mindless ignorant summary, with no editorial standards applied, after another. And those of us with our own small areas of insight to share just give up, after our carefully written stories are repeatedly turned down in favour of 'zOMG, New Minor Version of Firefox Released' and 'Microsoft Have Patent On Breathing'
I got spam-frittered the other day - they used the old 'spam, spam, spam, egg, chips and spam' attack, luckily I was phishing on the back of a trojan horse on my pharm - still, I was pretty phreaked. You know what I mean?
The other thing is that some people claim "dupe!" to things that were posted a month or two ago. Funny thing about the technology industry is how fast things change, so while the basic article subject might be a dupe there are likely new developments that are worth discussing.
Only if the person writing the summary, or the *cough choke* editor, hasn't made this explicit by saying, 'As we've discussed before [link], [IT company] has announced [some spaffy vapourware]... but now it has [whole new layers of vapour]. Post away, ye mindless...'
Well, since the article is a dupe, I might as well dupe a comment:
[Google Base, imho,] precisely is not Semantic Web!
There are no common ontologies (I can just add whatever concepts and attributes I like without any agreement or documentation) and no means for exposure (like RDF) of the marked-up data - it's all internal to their database and hidden behind an interface that doesn't go far beyond keyword search...
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Thanks for your much more eloquent posting, but I was pleased to hear about this - whether or not Sloncek was very coherent, that he'd re-surfaced was news to me. I'm happy this is on Slashdot, whether you like the subsequent discussion or not. You clearly don't care enough to use your own username, anyway, so crawl back into your hole...
If anyone else is a little uncomfortable about the web app (if not to say 'Web 2.0') consolidation going on at the moment, especially wrt Yahoo, they may be interested to know about an alternative to Flickr.
It's called iMob and is run by the folks from Seattle Wireless.
It's not polished like Flickr, and I don't know how much usage it gets, but I figure that more people using it is only going to encourage further development of the site.
As for a non-corporate alternative to del.icio.us, that's less clear. CiteULike is nice for academic papers, but Annotea Ubimarks might be the answer (plus they're nicely semantic web flavoured).
Just don't get him started on KDE or 'ad hominem attacks'
Stellar, frustratingly and, if there were such a word lickably. Seriously, these are our editors?
I wonder when we'll get that on xemacs...
Has this been kicked off the front page?
To mask the fact that three stories in a row were accepted from this spammer?
Still, I don't know why I should care - this place has really just descended into noise, and I honestly can't think of anything new I've learned here all year.
Well I lol'd
You're reading a movie review on a geek site on a Sunday!
I wish there were a better (non Apple-specific) word, but blogcast isn't it - the implied semantics are all wrong. 'Syndicated audio' is more like it, but it's not catchy...
In fact I believe any company that grows to be a monopoly, in a capitalist system, will act this way. But we sit back and passively create these monopolies and ask for it to be 'put right' after the fact.
Now I can see the advantage in moving to one telco, or moving to one hardware standard, or moving to one operating system (all monopolies that had to be broken), but I don't see why the sheep are all out buying (specifically) iPods (rather than MP3 Players) this Christmas...
One mindless ignorant summary, with no editorial standards applied, after another. And those of us with our own small areas of insight to share just give up, after our carefully written stories are repeatedly turned down in favour of 'zOMG, New Minor Version of Firefox Released' and 'Microsoft Have Patent On Breathing'
If Christmas sales move iPods even closer to giving them a monopoly, then the shoe will be on the other foot...
(See above already...)
Either way I agree - Real should have picked a more novel name...
I got spam-frittered the other day - they used the old 'spam, spam, spam, egg, chips and spam' attack, luckily I was phishing on the back of a trojan horse on my pharm - still, I was pretty phreaked. You know what I mean?
Someone should tell Tim - our efforts so have have been far more successful than anyone realised...
Dupe comments and dupe moderation too...