danbri points to Skype’s slightly fluffy RDF implementation. RDF is not hard to get right so long as you grok it. The first step in grokking RDF is to realise it is not XML even though it occasionally looks like XML. Go read this. Anyway, good on Skype for trying. If they reified it or gave it some proper URIs and put time-stamps on there, it’d be a really useful resource for historical data analysis (ie. you could poll a person you are interested in every five minutes, store the results in a triple store and query it).
Techdirt reports on a rather unfortunate breach of freedom of speech. Apparently, citizens discussing local council business on a forum is not allowed any more.
Slashdot is reporting that the EU is keeping the pressure up on Microsoft after it’s stunt with the OOXML format and their attempts to turn it into a standard.
iPlayer on Mac by end of 2008 says the Beeb. Meh. We’ve got all the core functionality already on this thing called the Internet, and it has the advantage of no DRM.
