evo42 communications Ltd. is using Adobe Flex, AMFPHP, Drupal, OpenCalais, SeeqPod, some magic & a Code Monkey to code a application that uses the 1d barcode information on audio CDs to get the MP3s of that album from a website or webservice. [this is a proposal for a paid article by sitepoint.com sponsored by Adobe]
more info in some days… need to talk to sitepoint again…
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In a revolutionary move, Obama’s administration is set to utilise next generation web technologies to bring an unprecedented level of transparency to government. In this case it will shed light on how the roughly US $800 billion dollar economic stimulus will be spent. The recently launched recovery.gov website (powered by nothing other then Drupal) brought with it the promise that citizens would be able to view where the money was going and how it was going to be spent.
To enable the citizen masher to do their wizardry, the administration will be opening up a veritable candy store of goodies: Semantic Web, RDF, Linked Data, SPARQL, RDFa, SIOC, ATOM, RESTful APIs, JSON, Widgets, Wikis, XForms, P2P Networks. Wow. They only forgot the lions and tigers and bears oh my… This is an unbelievable stack of technology. I didn’t think the government even knew what an RSS feed was :)
For more information read the full article on sitepoint.com.
Image by PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE via FlickrCulture!? Linked Data?! Ok, why not! Detailed information will be soon available on http://linked-culture.net.
Linked Culture will provide Linked Data sets from user generated content found on websites like last.fm, tupalo.com, shnitzl.org, qype.com and a lot of alikes. Also editorial content from publishing companies — for example like SIMsKultur Online — and other providers of ebSemantics RDF data.
It’s like what DBpedia is for Wikipedia.
Linked Culture data will include at the beginning content from 50+ websites related to Venues, Events, Reviews, Locations, Ratings, Music, Movies in English and German.
All data will include Linked Data to DBpedia, Freebase, GeoNames, WorldFactBook, WordNet, Musicbrainz and others — owl:sameAs.
Like with Zemanta it is a breeze to enrich the content of your blog posts not only semantically and like OpenCalais want to make all the world’s content more accessible, interoperable and valuable we aim to provide the most comprehensive Linked Data set for Venues/Locations, Events/Menues and Reviews/Ratings worldwide.
An example:
Susi Sorglos, a girl in Vienna, 27 years old. She’s from Berlin. Now studying some nice stuff in the beautiful blue Danube city in Austria.
She wants to meet some friends from University. They don’t know where to go. No problem. Ask the net. As a local in Berlin it was easy to find insider information about the city, now as a stranger in a new place it’s harder to know about what’s going on.
From friends they have a recommendation for the “Arena Wien”. What’s next? What’s going on there? What do our friends know about this venue? What are the friends of our friends thinking about the events there? How to get there by public transport?
A lot of questions.
Ok, how can Linked Culture help?
Here we go:
There is information about Arena Wien available on a lot of websites. Which one to consult? Ask Google? Ask Yahoo!? Ask Lycos? Ask A9? Ask ask.com?!?
You know you want to go to Arena Wien in Vienna. Google told you: arena.co.at
So. Let’s go. But wait: Results 1 - 10 from about 372.000 for arena wien. sh*t.
Would be nice to find all *relevant* information in one place — or use SPARQL to explore ;)
With Linked Culture you will find relevant information/reviews/events for Arena Wien, the event location in Vienna, Austria. For example Linked Data from these sites:
Susi Sorglos also likes going to the cinema. She loves Twitter, too.
Wouldn’t it be nice to find new friends on Twitter? From the same region. Who likes the same movies or suggestes new ones?
How to achieve this? We are going to extract Linked Data from Twitter and match it with the Linked Culture cloud. First proof of concepts are available with Benjamin Nowack’s #smesher.
The Linked Data information about current playing movies (= events) and the cinemas (= venues) is provided from Google Movie and Yahoo! Trailer database.
Afterwards they could go to a nice Restaurant. You know. They found it on tupalo.com ;)
Happy semantic end for Susi Sorglos & her friends.
Available countries at the beginning
Upcoming Linked Culture events
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I’m taking a trip to San Jose between June 15th and June 19th to the Semantic Technology Conference and visiting http://ricohinnovations.com because of #qrcode stuff and #iCandy in Menlo Park.
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One-stop-shop for professional services supporting your Social Semantic Web Strategy
The Semantic Web Company (SWC), based in Vienna, provides companies, institutions and organizations with professional services related to the Semantic Web, semantic technologies and Social Software.
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A QR Code is a matrix code (or two-dimensional bar code) created by Japanese corporation Denso-Wave in 1994. The “QR” is derived from “Quick Response“, as the creator intended the code to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed. QR Codes are common in Japan where they are currently the most popular type of two dimensional code.
http://www.denso-wave.com/qrcode/index-e.html
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Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is a free extension of MediaWiki – the wiki-system powering Wikipedia – that helps to search, organise, tag, browse, evaluate, and share the wiki’s content. While traditional wikis contain only texts which computers can neither understand nor evaluate, SMW adds semantic annotations that bring the power of the Semantic Web to the wiki.
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/
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WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
http://wordpress.org/
OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications across multiple websites. Built from standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps with OpenSocial that access a social network’s friends and update feeds. By using a common API, developers can extend the reach of their applications more quickly, yielding more functionality for users. For more details about the API, review the Technical Resources.
http://opensocial.org/
