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Re: I (May) Have a New Platform

Pete — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:43:36 -0000

Or maybe we will look at the users of App Engine like we look HTMl coders that use dreamweaver....

I'll roll my own thanks

Pete
http://localhero.biz/

Re: The Difference Between Wordpress and Facebook

Pete — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:16:00 -0000

I am someone who is buidling a blogging/search platform:

http://localhero.biz/

and has deployed wordpress for several websites on a consulting basis.

I think there are a few issues.

Ultimately open platforms/software will win as they are so much more flexible and you ownnn your own data. I believe wordpress is one of the better platforms but as far as I can tell it is missing alot of features (content versioning, an api, a spider/feed reader, different content formats) which are essential for support of the next generation of products. Its a very good blogging platform but the future is integrating blogging with so much more.

Re: AB Meta

Pete — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:47:16 -0000

Please, please do not use AB Meta. This appears to be yet another proprietary fork.

Please get behind the W3C standard RDFa:

http://rdfa.info/

And if you cant do that use Microformats:

http://microformats.org/

I have already implemented both in the front end and am restructuring the backend to utilise their enormous potentai (look up sparql on google) on my website:

http://localhero.biz/

These formats have enormous potential, are open, and are standards. The same cannot be said for AB meta.

Re: The semantic elephant in the room - Google will settle the "top down vs. bottom up" debate for us

Pete — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:26:37 -0000

Philippe

Most of the development on the web is bootom up and will be regardless of google or even the money involved. There are over a billion people on the we and even if a small percentage of hobbyists are working on bottom up semantic search this dwarfs google. I am currently adding a sparql to my own project that has yet to turn a dime:

http://localhero.biz/

Semantic search kills one of google advantages (accuracy) but it doesn't really have trust or relevance built in so time will tell......