If you are new to Semantic Web please read for a more extensive description the wikipedia semantic entry, also check the standards that may state the semantic web at W3C.

Technology leaders predict that its usage will define it, just like the web 2.0 claimed its stake on the world and altogether its name and meaning. Semantic stands for “the meaning of” and its preview and predictions about its complexity makes the statement somehow fall short. Read the rest of this article »

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21% of the most linked blogs listed under Technorati’s top 100 show their subscribers awesomely styled feed candy. While no one really knows where feeds & RSS are heading but their significance is certain. The feed system is critical to usability and as an online strategy for developing readers loyalty. After profiling many blogs here are some particularly well-designed feed subscription displays that invite interaction.

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Footers are becoming an essential strategy to engage visitors. Leaders in the industry are moving toward implementing effective footer features and creating a place for presenting, displaying and branding to their audiences in a very personal way by providing intuitive nature.

On the search for effective integrated footers we collected a few that are amazing for creating engagement to produce internal traffic and brand awareness. We present you an alphabetical order list of 15 Footers with viable integration.

1. Department of Spanish and Portuguese

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The Internet is reaching our own backyards. where to start when comes to find information about the neighborhood? In this post we present 15 Useful services that features geographical content. Read the rest of this article »

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Yample is a simple way to Share and Discover what´s Important to you in your area!

During the course of 2007 Yample have featured different tools to make the Geo tagging service a fun place to share information about geographical areas, it’s has been an amazing journey full of surprises some good some bad. After tuning the Service into a more friendly and presentable approach many moves have been made to make it geographical related only, what this mean? Yample will only accept submissions from sites and blogs that feature geographical content. Read the rest of this article »

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WebUrbanist, a cool site with high demand from its readers for high quality content. Weburbanist features urban design, culture, architecture and alternative art, the challenge was not as easy as it sound.

When I first talked with one of the guys at Weburbanist the Blog was averaging over 1k feed subscribers, and because the great content its features the site is continuously featured on the Digg front, del.icio.us popular’s, slashdot main, bringing to an audience that average several thousands per day, the challenge was to bring a design that features the content in a very presentable way with an elegant, modern and minimalist look and keeping in mind power of viral.

After not even a month of the Weburbanist theme being officially release, due to high demand from it’s audience, we are working together on a new theme for public release. Stay tuned…

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We all remember the days when we first experienced the web 2.0, and the amazing beginning of the internet’s social era. Nowadays there’s a lot of expectation of what and when the next generation will be.

Some clues and events makes eminent to think that the next generation of applications and services are around the corner, a compatible HTML, strong and bold CSS standards, smarter and more intelligent XML is leading the way to a more accomplished semantic web.

Evolution, Plaxo has always been an exponent of vanguardist technology, now with a more polished version Plaxo lets you keep track of what you and your pals are doing online. Stumble Upon, is another practical example of the future of the internet and its intuitive service is proof of that.

Lingua Franca, after several trials on getting a more compatible HTML, a more extensive and smart its been on development from enhancement on its basic tags could also include mark up properties like titles, bodies or articles, categories; and probably a geographical approach.

Applications, The evolution of widgets and API are probably some of the biggest accomplishments of the web 2.0, however not only a more polished version the next generation may bring but a bolder presence like the emerging comments services, Open ID and Citizen Journalism exposed to new levels. All of these application makes the meaning social an easier task and putting users in the spotlight what better way to accomplish it.

Geography, ever since craigslist launched it’s free service and the service got to the stardom, no new accomplishments have being granted to Hyper-Local. Now we are experience new services. To see other examples of geography integrated to the web please check The geographical web among us.

Information, Feeds and RSS are taking a new approach about the semantic importance of a new way to deliver and share information, even a new breed of mixed services was brought by web 2.0 and we know them as Mash-Ups. Now these hybrid services are start getting exposed to bigger things and represent full services Hulu, streamy, twine are just examples of what the next generation might bring us, exciting indeed.

After a few years of online banking, video and TV streaming online, messaging systems for online and mobile, conversational media and social networks, the question is What the next generation of the internet might be?

The new breed of applications where anyone will group their online and offline life, access to interact with unlimited information, a more physical approach where all the services of our offline life will meet, where artificial intuition will allow us not to think to discover what’s next. We started to notice the signs with astonishment and realizing that the evolution of the web is imminent. Please share your thoughts and opinions on what the next step of the web is, also leave links to relevant information about it.

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Inspiration not always come wrapped like a Holiday Gift, the search for imaginary and inspirational material is always a challenge that every designer as well developers always are on the look.

More interest is the fact that sometimes to look for inspirational resources where most of us look for, its an over burned idea. “Think outside the box” well… another overused phrase. The same principles apply to design and web development.

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For a few months I have try to use Blogger as my base platform for Blogging, Its a very convenient platform if you are in a budget, for several reasons, the customization and integration process is superb with respect to any other free platform out there that I have tried, but still a little bit confusing when comes to integrate custom script into the core code of the platform.

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The bookmarlet that creates magic with a snap (one click). I do enjoy very much Tumblr I even have an active blog Collective interaction which I’m using it pretty much to bookmark interesting stuff about anything that I find informative and fun, however about 1 month ago I step over a site that features a plugin for Wordpress I’m very impressed with the functionality and how easy this plugin makes the Blogging interaction.

Some of the more attractive features of the Plugin:

• Bookmarklet Access - Use it from any web page
• Selected Text - By highlighting text on a web page and selecting the bookmarklet, the highlighted text will populate the post box making it that much faster to blog.
• Image Selection - The images on a page will automatically populate the image box. Clicking on an image in the pop-up window will put that image into your blog post.
• YouTube Integration - If you are viewing a video on YouTube and click on the bookmarklet, the embed code for that video will automatically be inserted into your blog post.
• Ability to turn on and off WYSIWYG Editor
• Ability to set default category per QuickPost Type.

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