The Stream

I recently discovered The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project, which is based on the idea of creating a machine-readable social networks. Thus, using FOAF RDF, one can describe oneself, things one does, creates, people one knows, etc. I like this idea, so I have decided to create my own FOAF file and make it publicly available.

Totally awesome!

Well, look at this: JS/UIX, a UNIX-like OS for web-browsers, written entirely in JavaScript. My jaw has hit the floor. Incredible!

There is a theory, called Six degrees of separation, that anyone on the planet can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries. Based on this theory, there is a party game, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, which requires a group of players to connect any film actor to Kevin Bacon in as few links as possible. I have noticed that a more general Six Degrees of ..., has recently become very popular at the Internet Movie Database. I once even participated in this game. Finally, check out the Oracle.

Google

New stuff: Personalized Search, Video Search, and Google Earth. Unfortunately, the last two are currently only available for MSucks Windows (in other words: useless to me). Moreover, Google Maps has hugely expanded the areas of the world that it covers with satellite imagery.