MobileMe design flaw

I’m an Apple Fan­boy, a switcher and a believer, but now I’ve had a nasty encounter with a flaw in the MobileMe ser­vice that is there by design. I’ve just been told that the engi­neers are aware of the issue and are work­ing to solve it. Read more…

Tags: Apple, semantic web

The value of privacy in an interconnected world

One of the blog posts that was on my to-do list was one about the value of pri­vacy in the inter­con­nected world (hence the apt title of this blog post). I thought long and hard about what I wated to write and research to con­vince you that pri­vacy is under­go­ing a major trans­for­ma­tion at the moment. And then I found Nat Tork­ing­ton’s pre­sen­ta­tion called ‘Web meets World: Pri­vacy and the Future of the Cloud’. And that is exactly what I wanted to tell you! So please take some time to go through this excel­lent pre­sen­ta­tion (make it full-screen so you can read the notes, which con­tain the text of his presentation).

Tags: privacy, semantic web

Quit the web 2.0/web 3.0 crap already!

Sorry for the strong title of this post, but that’s how I cur­rently feel about the whole web 2.0/web 3.0 hype. Peo­ple who are shout­ing about, say­ing that some­thing is very ‘Web 2.0′ (or worse: web 3.0) make my skin crawl. Worse, it’s spread­ing like a virus, now every­thing needs to be ‘two point oh’. Stop it! You’re all act­ing silly, and you don’t know what you’re talk­ing about!

Let me explain to you my per­sonal posi­tion. Read more…

Tags: semantic web, web 2.0, web 3.0

The sense and nonsense of Twitter

You prob­a­bly know about Twit­ter, the so-called microblog­ging net­work. If you haven’t heard about it, don’t worry, you’re not miss­ing some­thing vital –I think. But I’m defi­nately not sure, and that is basi­cally what this post is about.

I joined Twit­ter on july 18 2008, so at the writ­ing of this post, I’ve tweeted for 3 months. I joined because I wanted to try out the pop­u­lar Twit­terific app for my iPhone 3G. I started fol­low­ing a few peo­ple I know of, as I had no idea which ones of my friends were a mem­ber of Twit­ter. I fol­lowed the tweets made by peo­ple like Molly Holtzschlag, Dan Ceder­holm, Jef­frey Zeld­man, Jeremy Keith, Veerle Pieters, Dan Rubin, Derek Feath­er­stone. Peo­ple who I have never met, but whose work I admire.

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Tags: semantic web, social networking

informatie moet stromen: semantisch web

NB: Dit artikel heb ik geschreven voor het pro­fes­sion­alis­er­ingsnetwerk IKKI, en is in zijn oor­spronke­lijke vorm terug te vin­den op de web­site van IKKI.

IKKI is het zoveelse netwerk waar ik lid van ben, en waar ik een profiel heb staan.
Mijn werk­er­var­ing en andere CV infor­matie staat ook op monsterboard.nl, werk.nl, werkenbijdeoverheid.nl, linkedin.com en in de ken­nis­bank op het werk. Mijn netwerk heb ik ook aangegeven bij hyves.nl, linkedin.com, twitter.com, facebook.com, last.fm, pownce.com… en vast ook wel op andere plekken.
Leuk, die sociale netwerken. Van de over­heid (waar ik werk) verwachten –nee eisen– we dat onze gegevens een­ma­lig gevraagd wor­den, en meer­voudig gebruikt wor­den. Waarom vullen we dan overal onze gegevens weer opnieuw in? Het zijn toch onze gegevens? En ik heb het toch al ergens inge­vuld?
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Tags: FOAF, RDF, semantic web, social networking, web 2.0