Category: data portability

• 13 May 2009

  Rich Snippets

  As everyone knows last night Google announced that they are now supporting RDFa and microformats to add ‘Rich Snippets’ to their search results page. Rich Snippets give users convenient summary information about their search results at a glance. We are currently supporting data about reviews and people. When searching for a product or service, users…
• 17 February 2009

  Linked Data making the web human centric

  The lovable Mr Stephen Fry recently noted [iTunes link] that the challenge isn’t to help people become “computer literate” instead it is to make computers “human literate”. And when you think of the last 25 years, as an industry, we’ve done a pretty good job.  1984 saw Apple launch the Macintosh and with it the world was introduced to the…
• 8 January 2009

  Identity, relationships and why OAuth and OpenID matter

  Twitter hasn’t had a good start to 2009, it was hacked via a phishing scam and then there were concerns that your passwords were up for sale and that’s not a good thing; except there may be a silver lining to Twitter’s cloud because it has also reopened the password anti-pattern debate and the use of OAuth as a solution…