PUBLIC MARKS with tag taxonomie

How do people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications of those differences on the design of forms, ontologies, etc. for the Web?

I just like unique identifiers because they make it easy (possible) to connect lots of little pieces in order to create new things, so I figured I would share.

classification of HTTP-based APIs. The classification achieves an explicit differentiation between the various kinds of uses of HTTP and provides a foundation to analyse and describe the system properties induced.

Web App Taxonomy

with the publication—after 44 years of work—of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. At almost 4,000 pages and about 800,000 meanings

The New York Times includes a large amount of topical metadata with each article it publishes. These daily dumps plot the relationships, and geographies, of each article and are archived as RDF, XHTML and SVG maps.

Releasing the Times thesaurus is consistent with our TimesOpen strategy. We want to facilitate access to slices of our data for those who want to include Times content in their applications.

good to separate out machine tags and display them after displaying “regular” tags. That started me thinking about how best to display machine tags.

A revolutionary idea is one which is very simple, easy to use, and yet extremely powerful. Then I started trying to use sites which implemented tag clouds. I now despise the tag cloud, and dismiss sites which use them. Why? Because they do not provide an interface into the information I the user care about.

Weinberger has not done his homework and his book shows it. He repeatedly starts with bad assumptions, so the book crumbles into a pile of anecdote and opinion.