semantic weltbild 2.0

Amazon.de started a service where you can rent DVDs. The idea is - similar to other existing online DVD rentals - that you pay about 10€ per month and can have one DVD at home all times. So, they send you a DVD, you keep it, sometimes you send it back, get the next one.

Now, cool: amazon, one of the biggest web shops has DVD rental. So I would expect that I can rent now all those nice DVDs they have in the shop. It would be perfect: in Kaiserslautern there is no specialised DVD rental service and we cannot get all the interesting movies (for example, the top 100 of IMDB cannot be retrieved in Kaiserslautern).
If amazon rented everything, it would improve something.

But no. Search for all the good titles - you can't rent them.
A few examples:

Texas Chainsaw Massacer - DVD at amazon in three different versions, no rental
Hotel Rwanda - DVD at amazon shop, award winning movie. IMDB place 47. no rental
Shichinin no samurai - not at amazon.de at all (hm)
Animal House - one of the most successfull movies ever, part of american heritage, sold in amazon shop but no rental

This sucks. I only signed up there to get "Animal House" but they don't rent it.

So what will happen? These online DVD rentals will steal income from local rentals, so expect that your local stores will close or get a more limited program. All online DVD rentals probably have the same blockbusting entertainment. I hope that someone points me to a good alternative online DVD rental, where I can get above DVDs.

Go support your local weirdo video rental, where you can meet fellow weirdos and can have interesting conversations.

leobard - 26. Mar, 21:44

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Thursday, 23. March 2006

thegreatescape

http://www.lwk.dk/KIngPong/kingPong_content.html

play pong in real life.

I would suggest to play this thing on Stiftsplatz in Kaiserslautern, sometime after May1.

leobard - 23. Mar, 16:01

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Wednesday, 22. March 2006

museum of web 2.0 hypes

http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/beta/

has a decent list of web 2.0 apps that are in "beta" status. Includes all services I am on. If you want to enter your e-mail address and your friends to another x services, this is the place to go.

Look also in the weblog, where the author writes some interesting lists of alphas, etc.

leobard - 22. Mar, 12:33

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Lars Zapf (guest) - 22. Mar, 15:47

hey my old buddy aka ZK,

look also at:
http://www.sacredcowdung.com/archives/2006/03/all_things_web.html

This list is more complete, but less fancy. ;-)

Cheers from Jena
CU @ BM2oo6

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Friday, 17. March 2006

web 2.0 contra-revolutionists

Checkout http://isolatr.com/, who are bad bad contra-revolutionists of the web 2.0 revolution. They clearly missed the picture, or perhaps they are already web 3.0 or web 2.1 or something arcane.

via Martin who read spreeblick

leobard - 17. Mar, 17:10

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Wednesday, 15. March 2006

RDF/A Embedding RDF in HTML

A draft has been published of RDF/A.

This is a really simple way to embed RDF into html. Example:

<html>
    <head>
        <title>Jo Lambda's Home Page</title>
    </head>
<body>
<p>
 Hello. This is <span property="foaf:name">Jo Lambda</span>'s
home page.
 <h2>Work</h2>
 If you want to contact me at work, you can
 either <a rel="foaf:mbox" href="mailto:jo.lambda@example.org">email
 me</a>, or call <span property="foaf:phone">+1 777 888 9999</span>.
 </p>
</body>
</html>

from W3C:
2006-03-14: The HTML Working Group and the Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group jointly have published the First Public Working Draft of the RDF/A Primer 1.0. Produced by the groups' RDF in XHTML Task Force, the draft is a companion to the XHTML 2.0 specification. This document introduces syntax for expressing RDF metadata within XHTML and explains the use of the XHTML metainformation modules. Read about the HTML Activity and the Semantic Web.

leobard - 15. Mar, 16:30

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