Everything old is new again. Mathew Ingram found evidence that the Semantic Web predates to 1910:
This new research environment would do more than just let users retrieve documents; it would also let them annotate the relationships between one another, “the connections each [document] has with all other [documents], forming from them what might be called the Universal Book.â€
Unfortunately, “The Mundaneum moved into a series of smaller spaces, and eventually took over a parking garage before closing for good in 1934″.
Towards a better Web. Defective Yeti suggests Internet Access Captchas:
And so, a modest proposal: Internet Access Captchas, built right into browsers, designed to greatly reduce the overabundance of youtube commenters, MySpacers, and bloggers.
We can even dial it up and down, from the correct 3-letter spelling of you, to sentences that may contain whom.
Public Service Moment. The periodic table of the SOAPs will help put some order in your WS-Complexity. Includes all the relevant (and non-) specs, the dependencies between them (illuminating), current version number (higher numbers mean something) and the vendors behind them (enough said). (Via Bill de hÓra)
In JSON we trust. So was it really an AJAX exploit or just a media exploit?
The first egregious dishonesty in their paper is that it analyzes client-side Ajax frameworks. This is not where the vulnerability is, nor where it’s fixed. … That’s right, the simplest fix is to always make sure you send an object on the outside, not an array.
Haskell makes it to TechMeme. Or more precisely, a discussion that’s pure software engineering and development practice. It breaks the natural order of things which, as we all know, must flow from tech politics to latest scare to celebrity gossip. Just like the 10 o’clock news. Still, I like it. Way to go, Reg.