Archive for October, 2005

I hate TinyURL’s

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

You’ve probably seen these things… Instead of some ugly 5 long line link to an article that you have to cut and paste out of an email in 3 separate steps, you get something clean like http://tinyurl.com/9lcad. Nice idea, bad execution. The problem of course, is that when I get one of these links I [...]

Semantic Vs. Automatic

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

Today while watching a webcast of a talk at Berkeley by Google’s Sergey Brin, I heard him say something that was… well… interesting. In response to a question about the future of the semantic web and ideas like tagging, Brin said the following: I think that tagging and semantics are great, as long as the [...]