The Semantic Web has been a strong interest of mine over the last two years. When I came across RDF and OWL through a research project at IST back in 2008, a Web Standard no less, I’d somehow been completely oblivious to its existence. If you’ve never heard of the Read more »
Category Archives: The New Web
Wolfram Alpha
… can apparently do differential calculus. But the partial differential doesn’t look quite right. And it can’t quite help me find the answer to a question that plagued my office — What exactly is made when you mix ammonia and chlorine bleach?
A Cloak of Accessibility
If you regularly run your browser with JavaScript support disabled like I do, you’ll occasionally run into a Web site that completely fails to operate, especially among so-called Web 2.0 sites. I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed, but Twitter.com is not the most accessible site on the Web. I Read more »
Designing Web site navigation and information architecture?
Does anyone have any helpful Web sites or suggestions on good books that capture the state-of-the-art of Web site navigation? I’m working on a site with a demonstrably-unusable information architecture, but we can’t seem to agree on what we need to do to fix it.
Fun with Twitter
Stevie told me about Twitter sometime last week, but things have been so hectic I haven’t had a chance to try it until tonight. It’s pretty entertaining so far. Twitter is sort of an RSSoCS – Really Simple Stream of Consciousness Syndication. It’s basically an SMS/IM aware blog or diary, Read more »