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Thursday, November 13, 2003  Dave Winer | ENT 1.0 | Paolo Valdemarin   Categories to Topics Results from Paolo's first attempts at gluing into Dave Winer's new categories stuff. Categories to topics. For the last 24 hours we have been parsing Dave's new category items from his RSS feed within our k-collector w4 test server. We have decided to split the category nesting and to match each category level to what we consider a topic. While topics should be unique and absolute within a cloud, nesting is subjective and can be defined both by the author and by the reader. As an example, in Dave's taxonomy you can find: - Politics     - Presidential Election of 2004         - Dean Campaign         - Clark Campaign         - ... If Howard Dean would have his own taxonomy, it might contain something like: - Howard     - Presidential Election of 2004         - Politics         - Budget         - Ideas         - ... Same topics, different nesting according to the different points of view. After splitting Dave's categories we match them against our OPML topicRoll to see if any of our active users has already used that topic and we archive Dave's posts according to the matches we foun (guess what? a lot of categories Dave has been using already exist on our server: it's a small world ;-). For example you can see here a post by Dave about Google which has been archived under the Search Engines topic thanks to Dave's category. Topics on this test server require a classification (Person, Thing, Company or Who, What, Where) so we cannot automatically create new topics from a feed using categories as we currently do with ENT feeds. But anyway it's a quite interesting first step. [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] 10:16:41 PM     - Let me hear from you []  Dave Winer | Knowledge Management | New kinds of Aggregators | Scripting News   Terminology disconnect One of the most exicting things to happen in a long time to to watch Dave Winer discover topics, knowledge management and categorization.  And like any true visionary, entrepreneur software guy - Dave is putting his enlightenment where his mouth is - into his code. But at this point - I think it's fair to say that the word 'category' is being over-used, or shall I say politely 'mis-used', abused, mis-construed and all sorts of other 'buses. First the word category was used to mean 'separate blog channel'. That's still how it's used in Radio Userland (Dave's former company.)  Now Dave is using the word category to mean 'topics' IMHO.  Regardless of the semantics (and NO I don't mean semantic web) - the usage of terms is pretty important for us all to get into sync. And stay in sync. Take Paolo's W4/k-collector product - or Phil Pearson's Topic Exchange.  Both use the term 'topics' to mean - exactly what Dave calls a category.  I think Dave means category - in a broader sense of a directory - with a drilled down specific topic within a category. And I shouldn't have to say that all this revolves around the general area of what's known as Knowledge Management or KM.  If you can automatically categorize email, IM, message boards or blog posts then..... [insert here any number of rants, raves and elugisms.] Maybe the terms category and topics can live side by side.  A category could be thought of as a directory of topics.  Simple enough.  Anyway here's Dave's report on all the 'categories' he used last week........... Reminder, here are the categories of the last week's posts. [Scripting News] 9:27:37 AM     - Let me hear from you []  DigitalID World   nTags redux We used the nTag systems at DigitalID World.  It was cool, but there was a LOT that was wrong with it. Smart Badges For Better Meetings. In an article to appear on November 15, the New Scientist tells us that the 500 attendants of the last Pop!Tech conference were carrying intelligent badges to put around their necks. EurekAlert! has released a preview of this article, "Hello, will you be my friend?" These nTAGs, distributed by the nTAG Interactive company, contained personal details about their wearers. And as the nTags can communicate with each other via infrared links, they are able to send alerts when they see a good match between two owners. This doesn't come up cheap: expect $40 to $100 per badge per day, depending on the event. More details and references are contained in this overview which also includes pictures. [Smart Mobs] 9:07:23 AM     - Let me hear from you []  media management   Photo management techniques I had the pleasure of meeting Loïc Le Meur at Joi's dinner and we got together last night as well. Loïc (pronounced Loh-eeck) is one of those 'serial entreprenuers' who hits the ground running.  Doc described him as the Robbespierre of French blogging.  Despite years of being told so, American software companies still don't seem to grok that selling their software in Europe (and Asia for that matter) is more than just localizing the on-screen text. Anyway Loïc is going to rip the EU to shreds. Here's his post on scalability of photo albums - my response below....... Dealing with thousands of pictures in iphoto. My "switching" has been very well, now my 8 years son and my wife also have macs and they love them. The only issue we have is with our 6000 digital pictures. The mac gets really slow when iphoto loads them (even the 1.8GHZ G5 I just got woah). So the solution is probably to create different photo galleries (I do not know the iphoto word in english, the French is "phototheque") and save them on cds or dvds but it is not convenient as you do not have all your photos nearby. Apple will probably improve that soon. Any thoughts of you having the same problems with large photo galleries ? Thanks [Loïc Le Meur's WebLog] Ah yes - welcome to the world of photo management, digital lifestyle aggregators and scalability. Many have attempted to solve this challenge (as I often tell Paolo - nothing is a problem, just a challenge.)  I'd say the best solution right now is to have a dedicated media server machine - on-line - all the time, connected to your Home LAN.  This way they're always there, everyone can get to thema nd use them, but there's nothing to bog down your main machine. There are lots of more detailed, technical solutions - including indexing all your photos with the dreaded M word (meta-data), and (one of my favoties) embedding hot zones into the photos (ala Greg Elin's Fotonotes) - but in general you really need formal photo management software. Products like Canto's Cumulus were invented for just this purpose.  Adobe has a much more lame product - called Album. 8:57:51 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Digital Identity | SourceID   v 2 of the Liberty Alliance spec frozen For nerds that care - the v 2 of the Liberty Alliance spec includes support for controlling individual attributes of one's digital identity. That's important.  Now we just need the SourceID to support it. Liberty Alliance Phase 2 Specs Finalized. Another mound of specs I should be reading but can't find the time to do so.  Here is the link to a ZIP file (3.01MB) containing everything. - via Scott Loftesness. [Don Park's Daily Habit] 8:37:51 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Dina Mehta | Flemming Funch | Julian Elve   They're partying in London Bloggers at Balzac. Had the hugely enjoyable experience of lunch with Dina Mehta, Flemming Funch and Julie Solheim-Roe. I can report another positive example of the transfer of blog-affinity into enjoyable real-life conversations - we ploughed straight in to a whole range of topics, including: Do the bloggers we gravitate to have similar values? The importance of "abundance" thinking in stimulating the open sharing of ideas The way in which young Indians are completely immersed in SMS and IM, email isn't relevant Online journals and the growing emotional openness of young men Different approaches to blog writing Blog writing as meditation Paradigm shifts in the way people inter-relate, including the growth of EBay based businesses How do we get senior generalist managers to engage with online /community software in large organisations? In summary - a hugely enjoyable and stimulating couple of hours![Synesthesia] Dina is a dynamite networker and empowering mega-force.  She's been traveling around the world - spreading the gospel and getting very real with everybody.  It was GREAT to meet her in person. 8:36:05 AM     - Let me hear from you []  Jason Calacanis   SocialSoftware.WeblogsInc.com features RSS feeds now.... Jason Calacanis' Social Software Blog finally has RSS feeds (in every flavor BTW.)  I'm just not sure when he making this available.  Now I can track all the muck raking and some serious investigative journalism.  I'm sure Jason's not afraid about digging through garbage cans and being above it all to the point where he wouldn't just 'bitch slap' Jonathan Abrams to make a point. Now i just wonder if Jason will ever call me back and follow through on his offer to have me write for him? Friendster Backlash in full effect. NotFriendster.com launched today providing Social Networking Community Alternatives who runs this thing? How long till they are sued by Friendster? This site has been published to serve as a comprehensive list of alternatives to Friendster. We will attempt to keep this list as current as possible. If you know of a social network not listed here, please e-mail us at info@notfriendster.com with the name and URL and we will add it to this list. Ringo (www.ringo.com) Everyone's Connected (www.everyonesconnected.com) Tribe (www.tribe.net) Peepsnation (www.peepsnation.com) Friends of Friends (www.friendsoffriends.com) These are a couple of spoof sites that have sprung up recently: Fiendster (www.fiendster.com) Introvertster (www.gregstorey.com/airbag/introvertster) Here are a few business networking communities. Some of these have developed some degree of socializing. Ryze (www.ryze.com) INWYK (www.itsnotwhatyouknow.com) Linked In (www.linkedin.com) [The Social Software Weblog] 12:04:11 AM     - Let me hear from you []