Kris Krois's List: pWeb Lecture: The Social Semantic Web in 2011 / Part 2

• The concept
• The concept of the Social Semantic Web subsumes developments in which social interactions on the Web lead to the creation of explicit and semantically rich knowledge representations. The Social Semantic Web can be seen as a Web of collective knowledge systems, which are able to provide useful information based on human contributions and which get better as more people participate.^[1] The Social Semantic Web combines technologies, strategies and methodologies from the Semantic Web, social software and the Web 2.0.

• The first ever web browser was also an editor, making the web an interactive medium
• web is beginning to develop the kind of collaborative nature that its inventor envisaged from the start
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• Project Xanadu, the original hypertext project, is often misunderstood as an attempt to create the World Wide Web.
• documents may be closely compared side by side and closely annotated; where it is possible to see the origins of every quotation; and in which there is a valid copyright system-- a literary, legal and business arrangement-- for frictionless, non-negotiated quotation at any time and in any amount.  The Web trivialized this original Xanadu model, vastly but incorrectly simplifying these problems to a world of fragile ever-breaking one-way links, with no recognition of change or copyright, and no support for multiple versions or principled re-use.
• detailed controversy and detailed collaboration
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• Dialogartige Interaktionen sind mit der Software möglich.
• Demnach ist ein Satz wie "Wann ist der Geburtstag meiner Frau?" ebenso möglich wie "Wecke mich morgen um 7 Uhr".
• die Suchmaschine Wolfram Alpha ist ebenso verfügbar, um direkte Fragen wie "Was sind 18 Prozent von 19 Dollar?" zu beantworten. Siri lernt außerdem Beziehungen: "Michael Müller ist ein Bruder."

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• Permanet sharing of your experience alters the experience itself, because you always also think about the public perception, you optimize your action in the light of this. This has subtle and severe consequences. In her article “Facebook’s new sharing is anything but ‘frictionless’” Laura June  on thisismynext.com compares the new “frictionless” sharing features of facebook with the concept of the Panopticon by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham. The basic idea of it is that the awareness of being observed all the time alters behavior and leads to conformity.

• Freebase is an open, Creative Commons licensed repository of structured data of almost 22 million entities. 

  An entity is a single person, place, or thing. Freebase connects entities together as a graph. 
• licensed repository

• Freebase has information about approximately 20 million Topics or Entities at the time of writing. Each one has a unique Id, which can help distinguish multiple entities which have similar names, such as Henry Ford the industrialist vs Henry Ford the footballer.  

  Most of our topics are associated with one or more types (such as people, places, books, films, etc) and may have additional properties like "date of birth" for a person or latitude and longitude for a location. These types and properties and related concepts are called Schema. 

  Anyone can contribute data to Freebase, and you can also build your own schema in a Base if Freebase does not yet have schema for a subject you're interested in. 

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• Finding Your Feed URL
• http://example.com/?feed=rss http://example.com/?feed=rss2 http://example.com/?feed=rdf http://example.com/?feed=atom

• Import and display Feeds in your blog

• Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.

• Using Yahoo Pipes you can combine RSS feeds into one feed.