Alex Faaborg illustrates one of the best uses of the Semantic Web. Mozilla Firefox 3 might identify microformats and associating them with specific applications. As an example, how about if you can export a contact from the HTML page to an application. [Continue]
Software is complex, for a variety of reasons - the domain problem, the plethora of unknown factors and the developmental process. One of the jobs of the software community is to simplify the outcome of all this for the common man. However, recently we have become real good at killing the simplicity! [Continue]
We are seeing novel uses of markup languages, like publishing, syndication and even for desktop applications. Think about HTML, XML if you are uncomfortable with the markup languages phrase. There are different categories of markups - presentational (HTML), procedural (Tex, PostScript) and descriptive (XML). [Continue]