At the timing of the user’s location are sent to the server, Kiseki sends you a recommended shop/restaurant/event info to your phone and those info will be shown on your stand-by screen.

• A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it.
• A Level 2 platform's apps run elsewhere, but inject functionality into the platform via a plug-in API -- this is how Facebook does it. Most likely, a Level 2 platform's apps also call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services.
• A Level 3 platform's apps run inside the platform itself -- the platform provides the "runtime environment" within which the app's code runs.

[...] I believe that in the long run, all credible large-scale Internet companies will provide Level 3 platforms.

Based on the Semantic method RDF, Content Labels are files that contain powerful metadata that enable search engines and browsers to provide more trust in search results.

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Why Content Labels are useful
Visual badges provided by organisations such as Segala, VeriSign, GeoTrust and TRUSTe have limitied benefit. This is mainly because you only know when a Web site has a visual trustmark when you’ve already landed on it. Content Labels on the other hand are detectable by search engines and browsers which means users can find out which sites have Trustmarks without having to visit them. Furthermore, users can filter out anything that doesn’t contain a Content Label.

Content Labels act in a similar fashion to SSL Certificates. However, SSL Certificates are restricted to making claims about an entire Web site and they’re only used for security and identification purposes. Content Labels can be used to make assertions about an entire domain, or specific URIs. Furthermore, they can be used to make conformance claims to any standard or code of conduct.

Web4 is what I'm really waiting for. And it's entirely possible that Web4 will get here before the semantic web even though Web 3 makes it work a lot better.

We start with this:

• Ubiquity
• Identity
• Connection

We need ubiquity to build Web4, because it is about activity, not just data, and most human activity takes place offline.

We need identity to build Web4, because the deliverable is based on who you are and what you do and what you need.

And we need connection to build Web4, because you're nothing without the rest of us.

Web4 is about making connections, about serendipity and about the network taking initiative.

The current spec 1.1 will be deprecated in favor of the upcoming 2.0, which will feature YADIS service discovery, security enhancements, anonymous logging capability and XRI (i-name i-number).

[...] OpenID advocates have tried to attract Yahoo and Google for support, but this does not sound feasible because of the business models established on their proprietary single sign-on mechanisms. Wikipedia, however, is expected to support OpenID soon - thanks to a patch created for WikiMedia, the open source wiki software powering the encyclopedia giant.

[...] Even though the system is completely decentralized, OpenID still raises privacy concerns. Some people don't want to have a central place that binds all their accounts. Another criticism is whether the system is fully de-centralized? As always, this space is vulnerable to one provider eventually dominating it. So any disequilibria may put the neutrality of the system under question.

User-centric identity starts with the individual, and his or her needs and relationships with other people, companies and organizations. This is and extremely active and growing conversation involving many converging development efforts -- by open source communities, by vendors large and small, and by customers of all sizes. They are working towards a powerful vision of a web-wide distributed identity meta-system. At the heart of this conversation is a community of amazing people, a shared lexicon and some core principles 'the laws of identity' put forward by Kim Cameron of Microsoft. Kaliya will give an overview of the identity landscape focusing on the core elements that have lead to the current developments and help orient those who want to implement the emerging open standards into Web 2.0 tools.

Fiske's theory is based on the conclusion that all human relationships are built from four types of interactions: communal sharing, equality matching, authority ranking, and market pricing. In Fiske's theory, these four building blocks (which he calls "relationship models") result in the entire range of the very complex and diverse social life of humans.

“Are you my friend? Yes or no?” This question, while fundamentally odd, is a key component of social network sites. [...]I will argue that the established Friending norms evolved out of a need to resolve the social tensions that emerged due to technological limitations. At the same time, I will argue that Friending supports pre-existing social norms yet because the architecture of social network sites is fundamentally different than the architecture of unmediated social spaces, these sites introduce an environment that is quite unlike that with which we are accustomed.