Monday, September 20, 2010

Annotations Overview | dev.twitter.com

Annotations Overview | dev.twitter.com: "Annotation Guidelines

The goal of Annotations are to bring more structured data to tweets to allow for better discovery of data and richer interactions. We aim to borrow heavily from, and use when possible, existing standards like RDFa, Microformats, Open Graph Protocol, AB Meta and Activitystrea.ms. Annotations will be a community-driven effort, but we aim to offer some initial guidance to hopefully create a critical mass of data that benefits users and developers. We want to lean towards loose-typing and minimal requirements while balancing that with enough structure to determine some semantics about the content or expression."

Sunday, September 19, 2010

What Twitter Annotations Mean

What Twitter Annotations Mean: "Imagination will make the sky the limit for this publishing platform used easily by more than 100 million people around the world. But a shortage of forethought, planning and agreed-upon standards may bring that platform's aspirations back down to earth quickly in the future. Time will tell."

Mao, King Kong, and the Future of the Book - Triple Canopy

Mao, King Kong, and the Future of the Book - Triple Canopy

if:book: the sea change is coming...

if:book: the sea change is coming...: "conversations aren't linear, which is why when we talk about a book 'including the conversation it engenders' it seems that we're going to need more than two dimensions to represent and encourage a complex asynchronous conversation among many people."

Where eBooks SHOULD Be – The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds � Mac Create Blog

Where eBooks SHOULD Be – The Horse That Leaps Through Clouds � Mac Create Blog: "It’s frustrating to think that a book that has this much extra material can’t include that material in the eBook version and that a reader has to sit with a browser window open at the same time."