Tag Management | Tag Deployment | Ensighten Enterprise Solutions. Building the Annotated XML Specification. September 12, 1998 The design of XML 1.0 stretched over 20 months ending in February 1998, with input from a couple of hundred of the world's best experts in the area of markup, publishing, and Web design. The result of that work, the XML 1.0 Specification, is a highly condensed document that contains little or no information about how it came to read the way it does. Even before the release of XML 1.0, it became obvious that some parts of the spec were self-explanatory, while others were causing headaches for its users.
The Annotated XML Specification addresses both of these problems. It supplements the basic specification, first with historical background and explanation of how things came to be the way they are, and second with detailed explanations of the portions of the spec that have proved difficult. Commercially, it has been a success; in its first month on the Web, it had over 100,000 page views from over 26,000 unique Internet addresses.
[cs/0508082] The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems. Elgan: Why bookmarking is obsolete. Opinion June 19, 2010 07:00 AM ET Computerworld - Since the Web first came online in 1991, it has grown and improved beyond anyone's predictions. Unlike the gray background, mono-spaced text and ugly graphics on the Web in those early years, today's Web is rich with video, interactive applications and other useful and distracting goodies. But even after all these years, the way we find, navigate and save content on the Web works pretty much like it always did.
But now there's a conspicuously innovative new option. The service is functionally similar in some ways to social bookmarking sites, but its core function is "curation," which Wikipedia defines as the "selection, preservation, maintenance, and collection and archiving of digital assets. " Described by one blogger as a social bookmarking tool based on "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," Pearltrees looks a bit like Google's "Wonder Wheel," but it isn't used the same way. The Pearltrees interface is appealing and intuitive to use. MOAT: Meaning Of A Tag | moat-project.org.
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