<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[dichotic noise]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://gridinoc.name/blog]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Laurian]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[http://gridinoc.name/blog/author/admin/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Ubiquity and "The Semantic Web" (part 2)]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[I'll assume that who reads this knows what <a
href="http://labs.mozilla.com/ubiquity/">Ubiquity</a> is, if not <a
href="http://labs.mozilla.com/ubiquity/">check it out</a>, it's awesome.Since Ubiquity can remember edits you do to a page (via edit and save commands), it may also be able to remember what other commands you applied to a piece of content, such that when you revisit that page you'll see a small visual hint (could be similar to <a
href="http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2007/02/04/microformats-part-4-the-user-interface-of-microformat-detection/">Alex Faaborg microformats experiments</a>, or <a
href="http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/can-ubiquity-be-used-only-with-the-mouse/">Aza Raskin's mouse Ubiquity experiments</a>) that would let you re-apply the command.Imagine that you visit a blog post about a party, and the map command is just one click away just because you did it before.Now, imagine that you go to that blog post about a party sent by a friend, and you will see the map command your friend applied it there.Moreover, all these commands applied to snippets of content tell what about the content is; in other words it disambiguate that snippet for a machine, and this kind of mappings could be very useful in the information retrieval and Semantic Web areas; they are annotations made not for the sake of annotations, but made because they solved a problem for a human.Ubiquity could probably do annotation persistence quite easy, while sharing them could be done via <a
href="http://labs.mozilla.com/weave/">Mozilla Weave</a>.That would be great, how about some interoperability right there on that very page, in that very moment? What if Ubiquity would add (upon applying a command) RDFa to the selected snippet with an rdf:type telling what the subject of the command is, or a microformat … and have additional extensions (like <a
href="http://labs.mozilla.com/blog/2006/12/introducing-operator/">Operator</a>) pick that up on that instant and do amazing things?]]></html></oembed>
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