Second talk at an industry panel: York Sure left academia, went to SAP to try to use semantic web in industry. He’s discussing that “business process” stuff that seems to excite business types but that I often can’t understand. But he’s made it pretty clear. Outsourcing means part of your process isn’t owned by you, [...]
I’m at a panel of Industry Talks at the International Semantic Web Conference.
The first presenter is Mark Greaves from Vulcan (Paul Allen’s research lab), who is talking about Halo, an interface to a Semantic Wiki that they are funding (but not building). About blending Semantic web as (1) “enterprise data integration framework” and as (2) [...]
Twine = interest groups + social bookmarking + collaborative filtering + THE SEMANTIC WEB!
(+ Terms of Use which kill any chance of another machine using the content)
A bit of a late discovery, but Twine launched publicly some time last week. The service lets you follow various interest groups (each group has its own feed). [...]
I found a new Firefox Add-on I will never want to be without again today: Mouseless Browsing. The documentation is rather bad (too complicated), but here’s the rundown: with numlock on, press “.” on the numerical keypad to show/hide a unique number next to each link/button/etc. on the current web page. To activate any particular [...]
Andrew Sullivan from the Atlantic on why he blogs. Not by any means a must-read, but a really interesting look at the role of new media in society as we embark upon this blogariffic journey.
I’ve tried Jquery UI 1.6rc2 embedded in a XHTML (note the “X”,).
When trying this simple code:
$(”#hello1″).dialog();
Assuming my xhtml file contains something like:
<div id=”hello1″>Hello</div>
Instead of having my “Hello” embedded in a nice dialog, I encountered the following problem
[Exception... "Cannot modify properties of a WrappedNative" nsresult:
"0x80570034 (NS_ERROR_XPC_CANT_MODIFY_PROP_ON_WN)" location: "JS frame
:: http://localhost:8080/hello.xml :: anonymous :: line 91"
data: no]withinElement()()jquery.js [...]
I got a chance to try Jquery UI lately. It really makes a lot a common ui tasks a breeze (read: 1 line of js and 1 html class in your div) , especially for dialogs:
http://ui.jquery.com/repository/latest/demos/functional/#ui.dialog
I, along with the User Interface Design group, presented a paper at the ACM UIST conference this week. Check it out!
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/projects/inky/uist08-inky.pdf
http://uid.csail.mit.edu/projects/inky/inky-video.mp4
We’ve launched our own blog, where we’ll be posting news items, interesting links, project milestones, and much more. (Assuming David can pressure us to write often enough.)