Reprise Media Reading List: 1/2/2007
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Written By Kate Zimmermann | January 2, 2007 | Share This
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Semantic Mozilla
Mozilla blogger Alex Faaborg says that Microformats in Firefox 3 could turn the browser into an “information broker”. As Alex writes, Microformats are “adding semantics to markup to take it from being machine readable to being machine understandable.” In other words, Microformats define information that you want to be picked up by […]
Semantic Mozilla
Mozilla blogger Alex Faaborg says that Microformats in Firefox 3 could turn the browser into an “information broker”. As Alex writes, Microformats are “adding semantics to markup to take it from being machine readable to being machine understandable.” In other words, Microformats define information that you want to be picked up by related sites, which makes it easier for vertical aggregators to gather relevant information. For example, a post on this blog with a classified ad could be picked up by craigslist, edgio, or other classified aggregators. Another example: See Below.
Browser Import
In the meantime, Chinese browser Maxthon is going global. With 30% of the browser market in China, Maxthon is a tabbed, customizable, free spin-off of Internet Explorer. As Read/Write Web reports, “With its success in China and the brilliant features in Maxthon 2.0, Maxthon is ready for the worldwide market.”
Y2K7?
Google Calculator suffered a mysterious shut-down sometime around midnight on new years. Google Blogoscoped has the story.
Tough Love for Qatar
Wikipedia banned the entire country of Qatar from editing entries, thanks to an overwhelming amount of spam and erroneous edits coming from its residents. Granted, Qatar has all of one IP address for the entire country.
Another GMail Bug
Tech Reads reports, “Using a form of cross scripting, it becomes easy to steal a GMail user’s contact list if they visit a certain type of website.” Apparently the story broke two days ago on Googlified and the bug has since been fixed.
Makeover Story
Both The Wall Street Journal and Disney announced major site makeovers for the new year. The WSJ updated their site to better accommodate new means of online distribution - namely blogs, podcasts, and video logs. Disney.com, on the other hand, is about to unveil a re-design that has taken over a year to complete. The new site promises to better integrate elements from Disney’s other online assets (ESPN.com and ABC.com, among others) while improving navigation and interactivity.
More on Semantic Information Sharing
(From Toothpastefordinner)
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