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So, if only we could express these relationships, such as my social graph, in a way that is above the level of documents, then we would get re-use. That’s just what the graph does for us. We have the technology — it is Semantic Web technology, starting with RDF OWL and SPARQL. Not magic bullets, but the tools which allow us to break free of the document layer.
maybe the time for the semweb is finally ripe.
when Microsoft talks about compatibility they’re largely talking about intranet sites inside corporations, which are often maintained poorly or not at all, so anything that’s broken by a browser change will remain broken forever. And it’s easy to see how the needs of large corporate customers can come to dominate the thinking of a software organization
this is why microsoft utterly fails on the web: they are internally divided, provide bogus arguments against the evolution of the web because it would hurt their cash cows.
Web pages comprise 48% of printouts on home printers; word processing documents run a distant second–the reverse of just a few years ago.
who are all these morons who waste paper with trivial printouts?
pretty sure this does not matter. what has web3d done for you recently?
there is an opportunity for someone to create a new browser engine and possibly win. Here’s what they could do:
Target 8 cores or more
Leverage the work of the WHATWG on documenting HTML parsing, DOM APIs, etc
Use a new programming language
what you would have to do if you started fresh in browser land.
a XULRunner based browser that hosts web applications without the normal browser UI. Based on a concept called Site Specific Browsers. An SSB is an application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusively with a single web application.
The low adoption barriers to web applications mean that no traditional packaged software company is safe from web-based competition in the near term.
redmond, we have a problem
tomorrow’s pages will make today’s browsers run unacceptably slow (because neither processors nor browsers will become much faster, while page complexity will increase).
how can a single threaded application like web site parsing be made to run efficiently on 10s of cores?
Pulse an inspired way to put a book online: not just a html dump (or worse, pdf), but finely granular posts with proper metadata, making deep linking simple. plus, tag clouds. now to begin assimilating the juicy morsels into my del.icio.us account..
the architecture of the www now informs everything: REST style everywherre, search-centric data stores, languages that scale out instead of up, making information survivable in the face of data loss and dissonance between systems
Gregor J. Rothfuss 