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Webinale 07: met OpenLaszlo and Raju Bitter

Attending the webinale 07, the German business conference on web technology. Today, I saw many interesting things, one pitched out, a technology that existed for many years, and now, given semantic web 2.0, gains value.

Its OpenLaszlo, a framework to program user interfaces. I met Raju Bitter, the community manager of Laszlo, a kind of Laszlo evangelist.

OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user interface capabilities of desktop client software.

OpenLaszlo programs are written in XML and JavaScript and transparently compiled to Flash and, with OpenLaszlo 4, DHTML. The OpenLaszlo APIs provide animation, layout, data binding, server communication, and declarative UI. An OpenLaszlo application can be as short as a single source file, or factored into multiple files that define reusable classes and libraries.

OpenLaszlo is "write once, run everywhere." An OpenLaszlo application developed on one machine will run on all leading Web browsers on all leading desktop operating systems.

The interesting things for us Semantic Web people is:

The guis are described in an XML language, similar to XUL or HTML ... or similar to Fresnel (aha!)
They run the XML guis in an Laszlo Interpreter ... like Adenine/Haystack
They GUIs are rendered either in DHTML or flash
The whole data model is XML ... why not RDF/XML

My assumption is that the framework takes, like any framework, some time to learn and train your developers, some investment, etc... but when I look at user interfaces like Jibberjims FoafNaut, I would guess they could also be hackeed in Laszlo, and better extended....

leobard - 23. May, 02:45

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raju (guest) - 23. May, 03:25

Was a pleasure to meet you

Hey Leo, it was so interesting to talk to you and Benjamin today! The whole semantic web technology stuff has been something I've been interested in for such many years. Good to see that bright, young people like you are so involved with the W3C's activity.

Frank (guest) - 23. May, 18:58

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What was your favorite Web 2.0 application and why? You can discuss this with people who would like to try these new apps! Submit your favorites at http://www.listio.com!

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Friday, 18. May 2007

Joost is public

Joost is there, I got invites. As a personal favor to Libby and Dirk-Willem, I am happy to post their advertisment material:

You can also watch the promo video, that says it tells everything about Joos:

Promotion video

What's Joost, Quicktime (9.79 MB)

My personal Experience:

They got many wakeboarding videos, what else do I need.

leobard - 18. May, 12:03

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Fer Neonized (guest) - 21. May, 03:24

Invites!!

What should I do to earn one of these? My email is neonizedmagazine__AT__gmail.com
Thank you for all in advance!

thomas (guest) - 21. May, 19:32

i'll take one!

it is winn ing ham @ gmail ya know without all the spaces ;p

leobard - 24. May, 20:13

you got me

when you had this link to rdf:about on your homepage :-)

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Wednesday, 16. May 2007

Talkin With Talis - Nice collections of Podcasts about the Semantic Web

Talis, the company that recently hired Danny Ayers, has a fine and excellent collection of assorted Podcasts of interviews with Semantic Web aficiandos. The quality of the interviews is low, they are recorded via Skype. Nethertheless, you will hear many people remembering many stories about the semantic web.

here are the podcasts:
http://talk.talis.com/

for the impatient, feed your iPods this munchy url:
http://talk.talis.com/index.xml

leobard - 16. May, 22:00

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New Book: Beyond the Desktop Metaphor - Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments

Mary Czerwinsky and Victor Kaptelinin have edited a book about future desktop metaphors.
More you can find out via

Here is what they say themselves, copy-pasted from the first chapter:

The objective of this book is to present and discuss new approaches to designing next-generation digital work environments. Currently the most pervasive computer systems, such as Microsoft Windows and Mac OS, are based on the desktop metaphor. For many users and designers, these are the only digital work environments they have ever known. It is all too easy to assume that the desktop metaphor will always determine our experience of computer systems. The present book challenges this assumption. Its point of departure is an understanding that desktop systems as we know them may well represent a temporary—if hugely successful—phase in the development of interactive environments. Future systems may further develop, modify, or even abandon the metaphor.

I can only add: for me, the Semantic Desktop is only the first step needed towards cyberspace! Lets make new metaphors! (as blogged before one two three times)

If you like Semantic Desktop, think about buying this book. For me, the reasons are threefold:

First, I chatted with Mary Czerwinsky over a cup of coffe in Kaiserslautern, back in January 2005 and she said she is preparing a book on future desktop metaphors - aha! Nifty I am, I added a todo to my organizer to remind me a year later if the book is there - it was not, but I moved the todo to remind me in another year...
Second, I recently tried to find out more about Richard Boardman, who is my secret hero for completing a PhD (btw: how could anyone ever ever finish a PhD?), and he blogged about the book, because he is in it. Reading his blog, it hit me: that is the book.
Third, because my clever Diploma Thesis student Danish Nadeem has found the book and recommended it to me. That was another reminder saying: you should buy this book NOW

So, I had a todo-item in my organizer saying "buy the future desktop metaphors book from Mary", which I today, after 17 months, can close. Three cheers to Mary Czerwinsky and Victor Kaptelinin for making it! Thanks for Danish to remind me.

leobard - 16. May, 21:13

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tyuityu (guest) - 28. Jul, 12:06

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buy the future desktop metaphors book from Mary

leobard - 8. Aug, 09:27

I did

after I blogged this.

Now you have to buy "Keeping found things found" from William Jones, it looks sexy and is by a pro.

John (guest) - 6. Sep, 15:00

book

The screw as we know it was invented in the 5th century BC, I think it is time we modernize a perfectly working piece of kit based on a well understood metaphor just because is 2008.

Come on people, wake up! there is nothing bad with the current desktop metaphor/concept, what is wrong is the massive clutter KDE 3.5 has in some areas, or the stupid over-simplicity of Gnome in others.

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Friday, 11. May 2007

See me speak at webinale 2007

See me speak at webinale 2007,

Where I give a talk about Semantic Desktop and how it connects to web 2.0 services and why the personal information model is the key to personalization.

leobard - 11. May, 08:51

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Stephan (guest) - 14. May, 14:08

check out Frank Westphal

well done Leo! try to talk to Frank Westphal
he does some very interesting stuff called
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Monday, 16. April 2007

4th Semantic Desktop Workshop in Berlin wrapup

Last weekend we had the fourth Semantic Desktop Hands-On Workshop, this time again in Berlin. There were about 25 participants from the whole world, people from various open source Semantic Web projects, employees of companies, interested friends, professional consultants, and semantic web evangelists. All were practioners, all anticipate using the semantic web.

Nothing could possibly go wrong, and it turned out to be a great success. We had three days of intensive discussions, code hacking, demos, talks, talks, talks, and a special social event on each day. At the end, everybody was just exhausted and we had a wrapup session in the Bebop-Bar, discussing about the future of the Semantic Web until 03:00.

Here is a small video I hacked together using photos from our semantic desktop hack flickr pool.

And here more pictures from this pool:

leobard - 16. Apr, 19:01

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Richard Cyganiak (guest) - 16. Apr, 21:06

Hey Leo, thanks for making the video, that's what it was like!

jccq - 17. Apr, 12:23

Ubercool! :o)

The vidio is soo damn cool!
Thanks leo!
It really make sense to have such meetings when people, like us, spend the year being very careful at everybody's work and releases and so they immediately can start discussions at the highest level and in the informal setting of one such workshop.
Very useful to somehow "see further"
Giovanni

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W.O. Fleischer (guest) - 18. Apr, 10:25

Thanks ...

Dear Leo, dear Hanne - many thanks for inspiring and organizing this wonderful Semantic Hack 2007 in Berlin. For me, it is absolutely amazing to be a witness how semantic workers are laying the ground for a world better understandable and communicable. What really gives me a thrill, is the open possibility for everyone to get personally involved in this promising global experiment.

Arne Handt (guest) - 18. Apr, 21:47

Hanne?

Who's Hanne?

W.O. Fleischer (guest) - 18. Apr, 22:26

Genau!

Sorry, Hanne ist natürlich ein Mashup von Arne und Handt!

leobard - 16. May, 08:51

Hanne,

you should have known :-)))))

thx to Wolfgang Fleischer and Giovanni Tummarello for the feedback! I think we did exactly the right thing with this workshop.

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Monday, 9. April 2007

Roadmap for the Web 3.0

Matthew Magain blogged the roadmap for the Web 3.0:

this is a follow-up to my thoughts about the semantic web 2.0

Kudos to Michael Sintek for pointing me to this roadmap.

leobard - 9. Apr, 17:31

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George Maney (guest) - 11. Apr, 02:53

Get the Miracles out of the Map

There are many miracles on this map. Semantic databases, semantic search, SaaS, (SOA), and such require very high levels of Semantic Web information quality and information safety to be more that trivially useful. This just isn't going to happen any time soon.
Note that Internet document web is information unsafe. Even so, it works great. The Internet data web is different. Any workable, worthwhile Internet data web must be intrinsically information safe.
All Internet data web architectures so far start with metaphysical information modeling architectures. Today all mainstream information modeling is metaphysical. Entity-relationship and object-oriented are the predominant forms. RDF and all alternatives are just alternative flavors of metaphysical pattern modeling.
Metaphysical modeling is intrinsically low quality and thus intrinsically unsafe. This is readily demonstrable. So metaphysical information modeling mashup interoperability, insurability, and immortality cannot be modeled or managed. This is a killer. It eliminates nearly all customer value potential in data web model mashups.
Today's best institutional data processing operations are a sanity check. Today these are severely limited in scope and scale by workable information safety and quality limits. Model mashups within and among software packages requires ruinously expensive recurrent reverse engineering. Most high value mashups are impractical or infeasible. Those mashups that are done often suffer from reliability problems.
Any workable data web build-out will, in effect, be a huge worldwide data center. This will be millions of times larger than the largest data center operations today. This will involve myriad thousands of independent modeling contexts and myriad millions of models. This simply isn't going to fly with any metaphysical information modeling approach.
Today alternative mechanistic subject modeling methods are limited to the applied science automation software world. These scale without limit and provide fully manageable information safety and quality. Any workable Internet data web must and will ultimately these alterative methods.
Today these mature methods are unknown in the mainstream software world. There is no commodity infrastructure support for this sort of modeling. Moreover, this sort of modeling is incompatible with the huge legacy of SQL RDB data maintained today.
So for the foreseeable future the Internet data web will be limited to a relatively small range of tactical applications that can tolerate information unsafely. These will provide some trivial value. The mother lode of Internet data web innovation value, amounting to at least a trillion dollars in financial market capitalization, will remain far out of reach.

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Video Lectures still online

Davor from the Center for knowledge transfer in information technologies/Jozef Stefan Institute wrote an e-mail, pointing to the videos of the ISWC and ESWC conferences. This institution recorded all talks at these conferences and put them online, a valuable resource if you are interested in Semantic Web.

Here is their message:
The videos are online a few months now and we believe that you would be interested in seeing them. They are published on our new video-educational web portal which has more than 1900 educational videos, including various tutorials, workshops, interviews. We hope you will enjoy in your lecture and will browse our portal...

your videography: http://videolectures.net/leo_sauermann/
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iswc06 conference: http://videolectures.net/iswc06
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leobard - 9. Apr, 16:47

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heraldic logos

Marian Bantjes blogged a year ago about the art of heraldic banner design. First of all: I want such a banner, darn that I don't carry my shield with me every day. Perhaps the back of my Laptop will also do. Second, this aint no bad way of annotation.

"...Corporate logos are most often completely meaningless, or they try to portray something quite complex without having a language to express it.

http://www.underconsideration.com/speakup/archives/002570.html

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"Designing logos would be an act of science: careful symbology applied in, yes, a creative and pleasing manner, that tells the tale of mergers, takeovers and change of business. At least then it would all mean something. Anyone could look at a logo and read its history. Logo changes would indicate what had changed. And it wouldn’t matter if the CEO did or didn’t like green; wanted or didn’t want a dog; loved or hated the shape. Then at last, we could look at a new logo and understand, “Ah, a young telecommunications company with sales over $100 million/yr which has merged with a digital company and is transistioning into the entertainment industry. I see.”

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Tuesday, 3. April 2007

Timbl video

Danny Ayers blogged :
If you only watch one video this year, let it be this one: The Semantic Web of Data (streamed, 8mins 24secs)
I can only copy that, apart for my admiration for Tim Berners-Lee, this video has some very nice things to remember. Tim has the vision, he had all the ideas in the first place and he is professional enough to have no problem repeating himself, explaining the semantic web again and again.

http://www.technologyreview.com/video/semantic

The web in the first place was something which solved a particular frustration I had, it scratched an itch that ....we would make life a whole lotta easier. The web of data, Semantic Web, same thing, frustration that I cannot pull that data and pull that other data and connect them. ... How do these publication fit in with these events. ... Where is the nearest coffee place to that friend I want to take out for lunch.

So, he did the right thing: he solved a problem he had. Usually you would say that you must not use yourself as your reference customer, but it seems that there are exceptions... :-)

The video was done by the technology review, an interview. It only features Tim, no commentary nor questions.

leobard - 3. Apr, 23:45