Re: Hackers -- Re: Schema.org considered helpful

btw- sorry I had only seen the second video presented by the girl, not the
first presented by you (just seen that one)
watching now, if the answers below are answered by that video, pls ignore
P

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com>wrote:

> Henry
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> thanks for asking, would be of course glad to contribute
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> For me evangelization begins with learning and understanding, then telling
> others what I have learned
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> I must say that I kind of lost track of social semantic web development
> shortly after staring making sense of foaf , although I have been waiting to
> hear whats the latest and how to contribute :-)
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> I see people running around doing different bits and its difficult to keep
> track of what people are up to
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> If I remember correctly we are waiting for a talk by Harry to the
> rescheduled here in Edinburgh on the topic :-)
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> I have looked at the video, and not read the documentation
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>  things I do not understand:
>  what is exactly WEBID for?
> (call me dumb)
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> what is the cryptostick? (any normal flash drive? or a special one?)
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> at the end it shows I can update my status, in what way
> is this webid thing like twitter?
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> We could initially easily do a series of q/a to make webid clearer, when we
> understand what it is and how its supposed to work, we can
> disseminate/evangelise and contribute to development accordingly
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> More offlist
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> P
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> On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net>wrote:
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>> On 18 Jun 2011, at 14:38, Paola Di Maio wrote:
>>
>>  And whatever suggestion could have contributed to clarify issues, was
>> dismissed in the first place. (or buried in pointless speculative arguments
>> about anything that could possibly bring the discussions to tackle the real
>> issues)
>>
>> I could not believe that such large projects were being planned, funded
>> and delivered with such obvious flaws built in (more obvious to some than
>> others perhaps). I am sure i have posted a list of SW systemic flaws
>> somewhere.
>>
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>> I have been working on the Social Web for a while as you know, with the
>> aim of building things that could be immediately useful for millions of
>> people. But of course it does require everyone to pitch in a bit - being
>> social distributed framework. For example we need more people with WebIDs if
>> we are going to be able to build fun services to use those, and so build a
>> linked data based social web.  We need those profiles to be tied together
>> and be easy to link up. None of that is rocket science.
>>
>> I am busy hacking on clerezza.org (an apache incubator project) to show
>> off some cool demos of what one can do with this. But of course we need more
>> people to join us. It would help if the W3C or other organisations provided
>> everyone of its members with a webid, so that we could then add simple
>> authentication to different apps and start collaborating together.
>>
>> What do you think? Is there some way you can help us evangelise this
>> simple yet practical aspect of the semantic web that could help every body?
>>
>> Henry
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>> PS. latest WebID in 8 minutes:
>>   http://bblfish.net/blog/2011/05/25/
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>>   Social Web Architect
>> http://bblfish.net/
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