For the last few weeks Ive been reading a lot about the semantic web and web 3.0. Stuff looks complicated and there are many opinions and ideas. This is what I could make out of it. When the microformats become more and more popular specialized search will be there for such items. Everyone will publish contact information in their websites are a Vcard. So Search engines can crawl and index them. Google might add a “Contact...

A microformat is a data formating approach that allows a developer make information that is intended for an end user to be read by software also. An example would be a contact information found in a web page. A developer can use a contact microformat to put that information on the page so that humans and softwares can read it. <div class="vcard"> <div class="fn">Kenney Jacob</div> <div class="org">Mobme...

Semantic web is considered the next big thing on the internet and its also called Web 3.0. Its an extension of the WWW where the web content can be expressed not only in natural language but also in formats that can be read and understood by machines. This will allow better search crawls and organization of information. Tagging which is an essential part of web 2.0 can be considered as a light weight form of Web 3.0 Tags allows...

Sometimes Gmail becomes an addiction. I myself was a Gmail addict. Gmail, built in feed reader and a lot of feeds can eat up all your time. There were times when I used to wake up in the morning and spend the whole day reading mails, replying to them and then reading feeds. Leaving unread feeds in my reader was a very hard thing to do. Feeds are good, but when they start becoming addictive, then its time to delete some of the...