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AJAX Articles/Tutorials - XForms

Web 2.0 - Web 2.0 Tools - Interactive Examples - Web 2.0 Articles/Websites - Web 2.0 Projects - Semantic Web Information Management - RSS - Wiki Sites and Tools - Communities - My Blogs and Social Networks

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Home Page

Peter Hale Home - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale

AJAX/web 2.0 - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/#web2.0Ajax

Usability Survey

I'm developing a survey on usability, I don't think it's quite right yet, but I would still welcome anyone using it to leave feedback on my research topic (or about the survey) - Click Here to take part in a usability survey, and support my PhD research, for anyone who does not want to remain anonymous, I would be pleased to take an interest in their research.

The survey compares these interfaces -

Taxonomy - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/ELearning/ELearningDemonstration1.htm.

Diagrammatic - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/ELearning/ELearningDemonstration2.htm.

And asks for further advice on end-user programming.

I'm interested in feedback from anyone, whatever their level of IT skills.

Create polls and vote for free. dPolls.com

Survey Results - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/EndUserProgramming.htm#SurveyResults - http://www.toluna.com/polls/37921/Do_You_Think_End-User_Programming_can_be_made_possible?.

Ajax and Web 2.0 research

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) is an overall name for techniques to create highly interactive web pages. http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~cjwallac/apps/ajax/index.html has more information and links about these techniques. Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) techniques for creation of highly interactive web pages may assist computer literate end-users in programming tasks on the web http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/10/ajax_on_the_enterprise.html, with the use of web development environments such as Ruby on rails http://www.rubyonrails.org/, and Writely (now part of Google) https://www.google.com/accounts/ and similar web based office technology such as the Google Spreadsheet. This type of Rich Internet Application technology research is very useful for providing an environment for end-user programming. XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a programming language, not just a language for representing information as illustrated by its use in Ajax and rich internet applications, and many products including Adobe Flex2, OpenLaszlo Open Source environment, and Tersus Open Source Visual Programming Platform. This technology is generally called Web 2.0 because of the intention to provide much greater interactivity than previously found in web pages.

These AJAX and web 2.0 techniques can be used for visual programming of internet applications.

Recent, present and future research can enable the use of Semantic Web technologies, (developed from HTML by Tim Berners-Lee and others - 'Weaving the Web' (Berners-Lee and Fischetti, 1997), to enable End User Programming. This fusion of research and technologies is illustrated by Henry Liebermans' book (2000), which has explanations of both areas of research. Examples of this fusion include Protégé (Stanford University, 2006), (Jena, 2006), (TopBraid Composer, 2006), and (OpenCyc, 2006) and (Masters and Güngördü, 2003). (Isenhour et al., 2001) undertook a project to enable user interaction over the web. A related development is that of Web 2.0, explained in (JISC, 2007), this examines the implications of Web 2.0 technologies for education. This report explains the power of networks and how important it is for educational establishments to make proper use of them. The JISC report explains how the technologies used are enabling user-centred web applications, and the use of the web as a development platform. It continues "As a Web 2.0 concept, this idea of opening up goes beyond the open source software idea of opening up code to developers, to opening up content production to all users and exposing data for re-use and combination". Mayo and Steinberg (2007) authored a cabinet office report for the UK Government recommending government partners with other providers to make use of User generated content and enable provision of information that helps achieve public policy objectives. Visual development environments based on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML), (Bruchez, 2006) and (Cagle, 2006) aim to reproduce on the web, the functionality provided by office tools such as Excel (which is often used as an End User Programming Environment more information on this is available on my Visualisation and Interaction page. This technology that Ajax is part of is generally called Web 2.0 because of the intention to provide much greater interactivity than previously found in web pages.

The Semantic Web and Web 2.0 techniques can be combined with programming by example research, and visual programming developed from the research of Sutherland (1963), Papert (1999), Kay (2003), and many others. This should enable users to experience a much more meaningful interaction with computers. A Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) report (JISC, 2007) explains how Semantic Web and Web 2.0 are related as Tim Berners-Lee's intention in the early development of Semantic Web technologies was for pages to be interactive. The JISC report talks of Web 2.0 trends towards the 'End of the software release cycle, Lightweight programming models, Software above the level of a single device, and Rich user experiences.'

In the University of the West of England UWE Online project Information is defined using XML (eXtensible Markup Language) and searched using XQuery (World Wide Web Consortium, 2006i). XForms (Bruchez, 2006) is an important enabling technology for creation of interactive web pages to allow users to populate the ontology. Related technologies that are important in enabling user driven content provision are Semantic Web technologies, AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) (Bruchez, 2006) and (Cagle, 2006), and Web 2.0 (JISC, 2007). The JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) report makes the point that tagging by web users can generate some understanding and agreement about terms and an improved search facility even without a formal ontology, or as a way to assist in the development an improvement of an ontology. Al-Khalifa and Davis (2006) and Schmitz (2006) use this approach of user tagging combined with centralised ontology development. These are the reasons for translating and uploading models to the web for this research. Cayzer (2004) also discusses the role of relating ontologies, and that of tagging.

XML for Visualisation and Interaction

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) is an overall name for techniques to create highly interactive web pages. Ajax techniques for creation of interactive web pages assist computer literate end-users in programming tasks on the web by enabling the use of web development environments and web based office technology such as the Google Spreadsheet (Google, 2007), Ruby on Rails (2007) and Writely (now part of Google). Ajax is explained in Whats Ajax? (2007) and by Cagle (2006). This type of Rich Internet Application technology research is very useful for providing an environment for end-user programming. This can make office applications available over the web using just a web browser. This technology is generally called Web 2.0 because of the intention to provide much greater interactivity than previously found in web pages. XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is a programming language, not just a language for representing information as illustrated by its use in Ajax and rich internet applications, and many products including Adobe Flex2 (2006). Quint and Vatton (2004) and (2005) describe tools available for creating and editing XML documents including Amaya (2007). XML as a programming language is covered in chapter 7, and AspectXML research into use of XML as a programming language is explained (Peterson, 2005).

References

Adobe Flex2, 2006. Adobe Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/.

Al-Khalifa, H. S., Davis, H. C., 2006. Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds: How To Semantically Annotate Web Resource Using Folksonomies. In: Proceedings of IADIS Web Applications and Research (WAR2006). - http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13158/

Amaya, 2007. Welcome to Amaya - W3C's Editor/Browser http://www.w3.org/Amaya/.

Berners-Lee, T., Fischetti, M., 1997. Weaving the Web. Harper San Francisco; Paperback: ISBN:006251587X.

Bruchez, E, 2006. XForms: an Alternative to Ajax?. In: XTech 2006: Building Web 2.0 16-19 May 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Cagle, K., 2006. AJAX on the Enterprise. In: AJAXWorld conference & Expo, October 4, 2006 - http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/10/ajax_on_the_enterprise.html.

Cagle, K., Whats Ajax?, 2007. A Primer on the Ajax Phenomenon http://ajaxpatterns.org/wiki/index.php?title=Whats_Ajax%3f.

Cayzer, S., 2004. Semantic Blogging and Decentralized knowledge Management. Communications of the ACM. Vol. 47, No. 12, Dec 2004, pp. 47-52. ACM Press.

Google, 2007. Create and share your work online Google Spreadsheets.

Isenhour, P. L, Rosson, M. B., Carroll, J. M., 2001. Supporting interactive collaboration on the Web with CORK, Interacting with Computers, 13 pp 655-676.

Jena, 2006. Jena - A Semantic Web Framework for Java http://jena.sourceforge.net/.

JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee). Technology and Standards Watch. 2007. What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf.

Kay, A., 2003. ETech 2003 Presentation. In: ETech O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Westin Santa Clara April 22-25 2003 http://www.lisarein.com/alankay/tour.html - Lisa Rein's Tour Of Alan Kay's presentation.

Lieberman, H., 2000. Your Wish is My Command: Giving Users the Power to Instruct their Software, Morgan Kaufmann.

Masters, J., Güngördü, Z., 2003. Structured Knowledge Source Integration: A Progress Report. In: Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multiagent Systems, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 2003 http://www.cyc.com/doc/white_papers/kimas2003.pdf.

Mayo, E., Steinberg, T., 2007. The Power of Information. In: UK Government Cabinet Office Report http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/publications/reports/power_information/power_information.pdf?id=3965 - The government's response.

OpenCyc, 2006. General knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine http://opencyc.org/.

Papert, S., 1999. What is Logo? And Who Needs it? An essay. In: LCSI's book, Logo Philosophy and Implementation. http://www.microworlds.com/company/philosophy.pdf.

Peterson, M. D. AspectXML - Article - http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2005/09/part_3_assets_atom_feeds_and_a.html - [Part 3] Assets, Atom Feeds, and AspectXML - The Triple Threat of Web Development? - O'Reilly XML.com - M. David Peterson - Part 1 - Part 2.

Quint, V., Vatton, I., 2004. Techniques for Authoring Complex XML Documents, In: DocEng 2004 - ACM Symposium on Document Engineering Milwaukee October 28-30 http://wam.inrialpes.fr/publications/2004/DocEng2004VQIV.html.

Quint, V., Vatton, I., 2005. Towards Active Web Clients, In: DocEng 2005 - ACM Symposium on Document Engineering Bristol United Kingdom 2-4 November 2005 http://wam.inrialpes.fr/publications/2004/DocEng2004VQIV.html.

Ruby on Rails, 2007. Web development that doesn't hurt http://www.rubyonrails.org/.

Schmitz, P., 2006. Inducing ontology from Flickr tags. In: WWW2006 Conference, Edinburgh, UK. May 22-26, 2006 - http://www.semanticmetadata.net/hosted/taggingws-www2006-files/22.pdf.

Stanford University, 2006. Welcome to protégé http://protege.stanford.edu/.

Sutherland, I., 1963. GUIdebook - Graphical User Interface Gallery - Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system. Reprinted from proceedings of the AFIPS Spring Joint Computer Conference, Detroit, Michigan, May 21-23, 1963, pp. 329-346 http://www.guidebookgallery.org/articles/sketchpadamanmachinegraphicalcommunicationsystem.

TopBraid Composer, 2006. The Complete Semantic Modeling Toolset http://www.topbraidcomposer.com/.

Modelling

Periodic table of Visualization Methods - http://www.visual-literacy.org/periodic_table/periodic_table.html - Visual-Literacy.org has published this great Periodic Table of methods of visualisation. This displays around 100 diagram types, with examples and a multi-faceted classification by: - simple to complex - data/information/concept/strategy/metaphor/compound - process/structure - detail/overview - divergence/convergence - The web page uses a Javascript library to display an example of a diagram type when you mouse-over its box. A neat trick but perhaps not very accessible, so I took the liberty of massaging this table to create a full listing of all the diagram types in alphabetical order. This format is more convenient for my purpose when teaching, and is a nice example of XML-scraping using XQuery.

Periodic table of Visualization Methods - UWE Blog - http://dsa2006.blogspot.com/2007/02/periodic-table-of-visualisations.html - UWE Blog post - This blog supports the group of students taking Data, Schemas and Applications UFIEKG-20-3, a module taught in the Information Systems School at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK - Visual-Literacy.org has published this great Periodic Table of methods of visualisation. This displays around 100 diagram types, with examples and a multi-faceted classification by: - simple to complex - data/information/concept/strategy/metaphor/compound - process/structure - detail/overview - divergence/convergence - The web page uses a Javascript library to display an example of a diagram type when you mouse-over its box. A neat trick but perhaps not very accessible, so I took the liberty of massaging this table to create a full listing of all the diagram types in alphabetical order. This format is more convenient for my purpose when teaching, and is a nice example of XML-scraping using XQuery.

Rpad is an interactive open source, web-based analysis program - http://www.rpad.org/Rpad/flickercalc.Rpad - Wind Turbine Flicker Calculation.

User Driven Programming explanation - Created with writely.com.

XML.Com - http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2006/04/05/prototype-javascript-ajax.html - Prototype: Easing AJAX's Pain - Climate Change.

Rich Internet Applications

ActiveRDF - http://activerdf.org/ - putting the semantic web on rails - ActiveRDF is a library for accessing RDF data from Ruby programs.

Building RIA with OpenLaszlo - http://www.ddj.com/dept/lightlang/193200193 - Dr Dobb's Portal - Mike Riley interviews Jim Grandy, Director of OpenLaszlo - October 10, 2006.

Flash and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) Article - Visual Editor for SVG? (Scalable Vector Graphics) - Peter Hale - Article from my Blog.

Flex 2 Example Application - A Demonstration application built on Flex 2 - Adobe Demonstration.

Flex 2 Example Demo - Flex Demo.

Flex 2: Rich Internet Applications in a Flash! - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/flex-2-internet-applications - By Josh Tynjala.

Flex 2 - UWE Example Built Using Sitepoint Tutorial - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/AMRCMembers/bin/AMRCMembers.html - Member Profile Viewer/Editor.

Groovy - http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/Home - An agile dynamic language for the Java Platform with many features that are inspired by languages like Python, Ruby and Smalltalk, making them available to Java developers using a Java-like syntax.

Morfik - WebOS AppsBuilder - http://www.morfik.com/ - specialized IDE for building web-based applications.

Tersus Open Source Visual Programming Platform - http://www.tersus.org/ - Create web applications by drawing flow diagrams instead of writing code.

Rich Internet Application Creation

Adobe Air - http://www.adobe.com/products/air/ - The Adobe AIR runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems.

Adobe Apollo - Apollo - From Adobe Labs - Apollo is a cross-OS runtime that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, Ajax) to build and deploy desktop RIA's (Rich Internet Applications.

Adobe Flex 2 - Review - Review: A Look Under The Hood At Adobe Flex 2 - By Mario Morejon, CRN Test Center.

Adobe Integrated Runtime: More Than Just Hot AIR - http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/03/28/adobe-air-more-than-just-hot-air/ - Sitepoint - Tech Times - by Matthew Magain - With its 1.0 release appearing just last month, Adobe AIR still falls into the "shiny and new" category, but feels remarkably mature. AIR is much, much more than a single-site browser-it's a cross-platform runtime environment, and the differences between the two are significant. In fact, AIR's extensive API means it has more in common with Java than it does with Mozilla Prism. - March 28th, 2008.

An Introduction to Groovy and Grails - http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/10/introduction-groovy-grails.html - In this article I will look at the Web development capabilities of Groovy and then move on to the Grails framework. I will develop a sample Grails Web application and look at the various features of the framework - Harshad Oak - 25th October 2006.

Announcing the release of the first "WPF/E" CTP - http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/12/04/announcing-the-release-of-the-first-wpf-e-ctp.aspx - A rich graphics engine that can be used on any HTML page and which adds browser support for vector graphics, animation, and declarative XAML UI markup.

Build a Web 2.0 Voting Widget with Flex: Part I - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/voting-widget-flex-3-part-1 - By Jack Herrington - There are few things that people like to do more than give their opinion about a subject of interest to them-especially on the Web. This can be very useful for engaging your site's visitors, measuring their interest in a topic, or just allowing them to express themselves. Web 2.0, and the advent of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), allow for the installation of polling widgets on your web site, making it easier than ever to take the pulse of your community. - There are several different technologies you could use to build an interactive voting widget, but the end user needs to be considered carefully. For instance, you could use Ajax—but this approach can introduce issues with client-side compatibility. You could use Applets, but that's not a popular choice at the moment-too many web surfers disable the Java VM in their browsers. - July 23rd 2008.

Flapjax - http://www.flapjax-lang.org/ - What is Flapjax? - Flapjax is a new programming language designed around the demands of modern, client-based Web applications.

Flex 2: Rich Internet Applications in a Flash! - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/flex-2-internet-applications - By Josh Tynjala.

Flex 2 - UWE Example Built Using Sitepoint Tutorial - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/AMRCMembers/bin/AMRCMembers.html - Member Profile Viewer/Editor.

Hackety Hack - http://hacketyhack.net/ - In this century, you may have dozens of programming languages lurking on your machine. But how to use them?? A fundamental secret! Well, no more. We cannot stand for that. Hackety Hack will not stand to have you in the dark!!

IBM - AJAX Toolkit Framework - http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/ajaxtk - A technology that assists in constructing Eclipse framework support for AJAX Toolkits and provides enhanced DHTML/Javascript IDE features for AJAX developers. (This is an ETTK technology.)

Microsoft - Silverlight - http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/default01.aspx - Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of Microsoft .NET-based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.

Mozilla Prism - http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/ - Personal computing is currently in a state of transition. While traditionally users have interacted mostly with desktop applications, more and more of them are using web applications. But the latter often fit awkwardly into the document-centric interface of web browsers. And they are surrounded with controls-like back and forward buttons and a location bar - that have nothing to do with interacting with the application itself.

Mozilla Prism: Stuck In The Middle With UI - http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/03/25/mozilla-prism-stuck-in-the-middle-with-ui/ - Sitepoint - Tech Times - by Matthew Magain - A web application like GMail, Google Calendar, Zoho, Buzzword, Tada List, Basecamp - pretty much anything that is Ajax-heavy and doesn't fit the traditional browser document model - is a good candidate for turning into a Prism application. - March 25th, 2008.

OpenLaszlo - http://www.openlaszlo.org/ - OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user interface capabilities of desktop client software.

Pylon Screencasts - http://www.inklesspen.com/pylons/ - This is a series of screencasts that addresses the process of building a webapp in Pylons. It's all in realtime: no fast-forwarding here, and I try to explain everything that could be confusing.

Rails 1.2: Release Candidate 1 - http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/2006/11/23/rails-1-2-release-candidate-1 - David November 23, 2006.

Softies on Rails - http://www.softiesonrails.com - Ruby on Rails for .NET Developers.

The coming RIA wars: A roundup of the Web's new face - http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=65 - ZD Net - Dion Hinchcliffe - September 11th, 2006 - Leveraging the convergence of IT and the next generation of the Web - A host of powerful new methods for rapidly creating compelling browser-based software (aka Rich Internet Applications) have recently come to market, or are rapidly heading there.

xforms vs. ruby - a rebuttal (sort of) - http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/03/xforms_vs_ruby_a_rebuttal_sort.html - O'Reilly XML.com - Kurt Cagle - Adriaan de Jonge's article Xforms vs. Ruby on Rails has created quite a stir in both the XML and Ruby communities, and for good reason. He asked a fairly important question - are XForms an also-ran technology that Ruby has managed to supplant? - March 30, 2007.

ZK - Ajax but no JavaScript - http://www.potix.com/.

ZK - Painting with Zero Kode: A real-time web page designer based on ZK, Part I - http://www.potix.com/smalltalks/zerokode1/zerokode1.html.

Drag and Drop Programming Information and Examples

In 'Position Paper for Dagstuhl 2007 EUSE Workshop' Mary Beth Rosson of Pennsylvania State University explains their development of a drag and drop interface for web based visual programming.

A simple illustration of the techniques we can use to further this research area is a demonstrator we completed for meta-programming of XML (eXtensible Markup Language) based drag and drop trees (example shown below), this example was created with AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML), a Java applet or Python are other options we investigated. The code acts as a translator between the XML representation of the trees and interactive graphical representations. This allows open standards platform independent end-user programming. The example is based on the Scand dhtmlxTree and this makes it possible to enable many other programming actions such as adding and deleting nodes, and to create other controls. Repenning (2007) argues that visual programming languages using drag and drop mechanisms as a programming approach make it virtually impossible to create syntactic errors, allowing for concentration on the semantics".

Further Information on Drag and Drop Programming - http://userdrivenmodelling.blogspot.com/2007/08/drag-and-drop-programming.html.

PIXEL Programming Interaction with XML Environments and Languages - http://userdrivenmodelling.blogspot.com/2007/08/pixel-programming-interaction-with-xml.html.

References

Repenning, A., 2007. End-User Design. In: End-User Software Engineering Dagstuhl Seminar. - http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/frontdoor.php?source_opus=1099.

Rosson, M. B., A., 2007. Position paper for EUSE 2007 at Dagstuhl. In: End-User Software Engineering Dagstuhl Seminar. - http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/frontdoor.php?source_opus=1094.

Internal Examples

Components Drag and Drop Example - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Ajax/components.html - Based on Example from Scand dhtmlxTree.

Further Information

Dagstuhl Seminar Post 2 - End-User Software Engineering - Part 2 - http://userdrivenmodelling.blogspot.com/2007/07/dagstuhl-seminar-end-user-software_26.html.

Drag and Drop Programming - Example and Information - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Ajax/ajax.htm#DragandDropProgramming.

Drag and Drop Programming - Post - http://userdrivenmodelling.blogspot.com/2007/08/drag-and-drop-programming.html.

Drag and Drop Visual Programming - Post - http://userdrivenmodelling.blogspot.com/2008/05/drag-and-drop-visual-programming.html - Yahoo Pipes provides for drag and drop editing of visual components that can combine, sort, and filter RSS data sources in order to automate web application development.

End User Programming - Example Interfaces - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/EndUserProgramming.htm#ExampleInterfaces.

Programming with XML - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/XML/XML.htm#ProgrammingwithXML.

Yahoo Pipes RSS Feed for Web 2.0 - http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=3e30625ebd44f24ff969ae5eef724425 - Code Explanataion/Tutorial Freshblog - Blogger Hacks, Categories, Tips & Tricks - http://blogfresh.blogspot.com/2007/03/pipes-json-and-code-for-your-website.html.

External Examples

Anatomy of a Drag and Drop - http://www.snook.ca/archives/javascript/anatomy_of_a_drag_and_drop/ - The mechanics of a drag and drop are pretty interesting and most library implementations do similar things, albeit to various extents. - November 17th 2006.

dhtmlgoodies.com - http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/scripts/drag-drop-folder-tree/drag-drop-folder-tree.html - Drag and Drop Tree.

dhtmlxTree - AJAX powered DHTML JavaScript Tree component with rich API - http://www.scbr.com/docs/products/dhtmlxTree/ - dhtmlxTree (DHTML extensions Tree) is a feature rich JavaScript tree menu that allows you to effortlessly create attractive and fast-loading hierarchical interfaces with cross-browser compatibility, AJAX support, in-line node editing and drag-n-drop capabilities.

Direct Manipulation Using JavaScript and CSS - http://tool-man.org/examples/ - Direct manipulation, particularly drag and drop, is under utilized in desktop applications and is almost non-existant in web applications. That's in the process of changing.

Drag and Drop Example - http://www.cyberdummy.co.uk/test/dd.php - tom westcott - Cyberdummy - (PHP, MySQL, Javascript, AJAX)

Drag Drop Shopping Cart - http://www.cyberdummy.co.uk/2005/12/28/drag-drop-shopping-cart-php/ - PHP tom westcott - Cyberdummy - (PHP, MySQL, Javascript, AJAX)

Multi List Drag and Drop - http://www.cyberdummy.co.uk/2005/07/13/multi-list-drag-and-drop/ - PHP tom westcott - Cyberdummy - (PHP, MySQL, Javascript, AJAX)

Sample code using drag & Drop with a tree - http://lists.wxwidgets.org/archive/wxPython-users/msg11332.html - Drag and Drop contributed by Sam Anderson, reposted by Dirk Krause.

Java Trees and Drag and Drop - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Java.htm#JavaTreesandDragandDrop.

Visualisation and Interaction

Google Maps Mashup Example - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/ajaxGoogleMapsMashup.html - Based on Example from Peter Laird, BEA Systems.

Scientific Visualisation - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PublicScience.htm#UWEExamples.

Backpack - http://www.backpackit.com/ - Organizer - To-dos, notes, ideas.

BBC Technology News - Have Your Say map: Broadband speed test - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/7426337.stm - The map below shows results from a broadband speed test on the BBC News Website.

Bluetooth helps Facebook friends - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6949473.stm - A team of UK researchers is combining the power of social network Facebook with communications tool Bluetooth to learn more about human interactions. BBC Technology news - 16 August 2007.

Could Facebook Become The Next Microsoft? - http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/19/could-facebook-become-the-next-microsoft/ - TechCrunch - July 19 2007.

Developing with the Facebook Platform and PHP - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/developing-facebook-platform - At the end of May this year, the Facebook team announced major changes to the package's developer tools, known as the Facebook Platform. Although the platform itself had been available for several months prior to this release, a host of new features were announced at f8, the Facebook developer event in San Francisco. - David Mytton - July 11th 2007.

DSA2006 - http://dsa2006.blogspot.com/ - This blog supports the group of students taking Data, Schemas and Applications UFIEKG-20-3, a module taught in the Information Systems School at the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK.

Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ - Facebook Platform - http://developers.facebook.com/ - Everything you need to get started building a Facebook application.

Facebook Launches Facebook Platform; They are the Anti-MySpace - Techcrunch - http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/24/facebook-launches-facebook-platform-they-are-the-anti-myspace/ - Michael Arrington - May 24 2007.

Facing up to Facebook - http://www.scenta.co.uk/home/1702018/facing-up-to-facebook.htm - Facebook isn't the world's biggest social networking website, but it already has 30 million users and is signing up 150,000 new ones every day. And, for once, they are almost all real people, operating under their real names. - Scenta - Source Guardian.

Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/ - Photo Sharing.

Google Earth - http://earth.google.com/ - Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.

Google Earth... for Astronomy - http://www.universetoday.com/2007/08/22/google-earth-for-astronomy/ - All right, this is the coolest thing ever. You know Google Earth, that cool software application that lets you explore satellite photography of the whole planet. Well, some clever Google engineers have flipped the software inside out, letting you explore the Universe with a similar interface - Universe Today - August 22nd, 2007.

Google Earth given celestial view - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6955787.stm - The constellations of Andromeda, Hydra and Vulpecula are now just a mouse click away for amateur star-gazers, following the launch of Google Sky - By Jonathan Fildes Science and technology reporter, BBC News - 22 August 2007.

Google Earth - KML - http://earth.google.com/kml/ - A 3D interface to the planet.

Google Maps - http://maps.google.com/.

Google maps shows the way forward - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4640893.stm - Bill Thompson - Friday, 1 July 2005.

Google Maps are Going to Get Better After Today's Satellite Launch - Universe Today - after today's launch of DigitalGlobe's WorldView-1, the resolution is going to get even better. In fact, it's going to have the highest resolution permitted by the US government to be installed on a commercial satellite - half a metre (20 inches). - September 18th, 2007.

Google Mars - Google Mars - .

Google Mars - BBC article - BBC Technology News - Google Mars - Google has expanded its online mapping services, offering ordinary users the chance to explore the surface of an alien planet for the very first time - 14 March 2006.

Google Moon - http://moon.google.com/ - Welcome to Google Moon.

Google Moon Gets a Big Update - Universe Today - When Google Moon was released last year, it was a bit of a joke. Google Earth, but for the Moon. Zoom in far enough and the familiar lunar craters were replaced with swiss cheese. The time for silliness is over, Google Moon has gotten an update, and they're making it a serious learning tool this time around - September 18th, 2007.

Mashups Tag Search: science - http://www.programmableweb.com/tag/science/1 - Programmable Web.

Mashups Tag Search: visualization - http://www.programmableweb.com/tag/visualization/1 - Programmable Web.

MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/.

Netvibes - http://www.netvibes.com/.

Periodic Table: built with Flash, XML, webMathematica - http://www.galaxygoo.org/biochem/PeriodicTable.htm - GalaxyGoo - This project demonstrates the combination of Flash(MX), XML, and webMathematica. - In the flash application, cells for each element are dynamically generated and arranged on the stage. Basic information about each element (the atomic number, element symbol, and element name) is passed to the flash application from an XML document, and displayed. - by Kristin Henry and Brian Higgins.

Replace Facebook Using Open Social Tools - http://howto.wired.com/wiredhowtos/index.cgi?page_name=replace_facebook_using_open_social_tools;action=display;category=Live - Wired - With a little savvy, anyone can create a page that hosts all of the essential stuff one would find on a Facebook profile that can be set up with the same plug-and-play ease. You'll have to store all of your photos, videos, and contacts elsewhere, but at least you'll be able to get to your stuff.

Slap in the Facebook: It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up - http://www.wired.com/software/webservices/news/2007/08/open_social_net?currentPage=1 - Wired - Scott Gilbertson - Damn the Facebooks and the MySpaces. The last time we checked, there was this thing called the internet that had 6 billion users. It's time to take our personal data out of Mr. McGregor's little gardens and put it back where it belongs -- free and open on the open web. Social networks like Facebook and MySpace are taking the web by storm because they make it easy to manage your personal data and keep in touch with people you know. But to get value out, you have to put something in -- photos, contacts, appointments, lists of your interests and your blog musings. Therein lies the rub. When entering data into Facebook, you're sending it on a one-way trip. Want to show somebody a video or a picture you posted to your profile? Unless they also have an account, they can't see it. Your pictures, videos and everything else is stranded in a walled garden, cut off from the rest of the web. - 6th August 2007.

Social site Facebook buys Parakey - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6907895.stm - BBC Technology News - Social networking site Facebook has bought internet start-up, Parakey, run by two of the co-creators of the popular web browser, Mozilla Firefox. - 20 July 2007.

Students' Facebook bank protest - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6966550.stm - A student protest against higher bank charges, organised on the Facebook website, is threatening to embarrass the HSBC bank into reversing its plans. - BBC Education - 28 August 2007.

Universe Today - article - Searching For Crater Chains on the Earth - Google Earthed used in this search.

Visualisation Page - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Visualisation.htm.

Where 2.0 Conference - http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where2007/ - The third annual O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference brings together the people, projects, and issues building the new technological foundations and creating value in the location industry. There's no better place to meet the people behind the mash-ups and platforms, and the folks looking ahead to the future of geospace. - San Jose - California - May 29-30.

Wherefore art thou, SVG? - http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/09/wherefore_art_thou_svg.html - O'Reilly XML.com - Kurt Cagle - September 10, 2006.

YouTube-style Embeddable Maps - http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2007/08/youtube-style-embeddable-maps_21.html - Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 6:46 AM - Posted by Jess Lee, Product Manager, Google Maps - Today we're excited to announce a new feature on Google Maps that allows you to add maps to your blog or website just by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML. And once you embed the map, it has all the same functionality of the Google Maps you know and love; it's clickable, draggable, and zoomable.

Mobile Phone Related

BBC news dot.life - Twitter microblogs to success - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6929134.stm - Rory Cellan-Jones - 19 Apr 08 - A blog about technology from BBC News - Suddenly everyone is talking Twitter. Just as Facebook hit the mainstream a year ago, so the short message social network has become the media flavour of this month - to such an extent you can even find me talking about it on the Today programme.

BBC Technology news - Adobe opens up Flash on mobiles - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7379575.stm - Adobe has announced a plan to try to get its Flash player installed on more mobile devices and set-top boxes. - Dubbed Open Screen the initiative lifts restrictions on how its multimedia handling software can be used. - Adobe will stop charging licencing fees for mobile versions of Flash and plans to publish information about the inner workings of the code. - In taking this step Adobe hopes to repeat on mobiles the success its Flash technology has enjoyed on the web. - 2 May 2008.

BBC Technology news - How Twitter makes it real - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7287536.stm - Bill Thompson is impressed by the sense of being there offered by Twitter - Unlike many of my friends and colleagues I wasn't able to make it to Austin, Texas for this year's SXSW interactive, the four-day technology conference and festival that is currently firing the imagination of the technology world. - 10 March 2008.

BBC Technology news - Hyper-connected generation rises - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6637865.stm - Internet services such as Twitter, Jaiku and Kyte TV are giving rise to a "hyper-connected" generation. Darren Waters - 9 May 2007.

BBC Technology news - Microsoft targets the mobile web - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7276907.stm - Microsoft has launched a bid to capture a segment of the growing market for rich web content on mobile phones. - The software firm has signed a deal with handset manufacturer Nokia to bring its Silverlight platform to millions of mobile phones. - 4 March 2008.

BBC Technology news - Q&A: Google's Android - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7080758.stm - Google has launched an open operating system for mobile phones, called Android. It has also formed an Open Handset Alliance with 33 partners, promising "better, cheaper" mobile phones. 6 November 2007.

BBC Technology news - The mobile web takes off - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7219518.stm - By Dan Simmons Reporter, BBC Click - It is estimated that just one in five people with phones that are able to connect to the net actually do. But the iPhone, however, is having a profound effect on the willingness of its users to go online. - The Apple iPhone's touch controls make navigation on its large screen fairly straightforward. The device has helped turn that internet statistic on its head. - 1 February 2008.

BBC Technology news - The whole of the net in your hand - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7017866.stm - For a long time using the net via your mobile phone has been an exercise in frustration. - Mark Ward - 1 October 2007.

BBC Technology news - Twitter microblogs to success - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6929134.stm - They started with nothing 18 months ago but now the founders of Twitter have made their start-up the talk of the town. - 3 August 2007.

BBC Technology news - Yahoo chief opens the mobile web - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7176077.stm - Jonathan Fildes Technology reporter, BBC News, Las Vegas - Yahoo chief Jerry Yang has revealed the firm's future ambitions for an open and mobile web. - 8 January 2008.

Socialight - http://socialight.com/ - Discover great places on your mobile as you walk around!

Twitter - http://twitter.com/ - A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone.

Yahoo! Go 2.0 - http://mobile.yahoo.com/go.

User Interface Libaries

AJAX user interface libraries are available with cross browser support -

Dojo - Dojo Toolkit

Google - http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ - Google Web Toolkit - Build AJAX apps in the Java language.

JQuery - http://jquery.com/

Prototype - http://prototype.conio.net/

Rails 1.2: Release Candidate 1 - http://weblog.rubyonrails.com/2006/11/23/rails-1-2-release-candidate-1 - November 23, 2006.

Rico - JavaScript for Rich Internet Applications

Sarissa - cross-browser ECMAScript library for client side XML manipulation.

Script.aculo.us - Welcome to script.aculo.us!

SproutCore - http://www.sproutcore.com/ - SproutCore is designed to make desktop-like apps for the web.

What's New in Prototype 1.5? - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/01/24/whats-new-in-prototype-15.html - Scott Raymond - January 24, 2007.

Yahoo - Yahoo! User Interface Libary

Zimbra - Zimbra Ajax Toolkit Download

Ajax Articles/Tutorials

A PHP Guy's Look At Python - http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/09/a-php-guy%e2%80%99s-look-at-python/ - Sitepoint - by Kevin Yank - Against all odds, I found myself with a little spare time this week. Rather than do something sensible like clean the garage or get some exercise, I took the opportunity to learn a new programming language: Python. - Like may SitePoint readers, I cut my teeth on PHP. I’ve become very comfortable with it over the years, warts and all. PHP continues to be a dependable choice, but PHP hasn’t changed a whole lot lately. Meanwhile, the kinds of applications I’ve been working on have been growing dramatically in both size and complexity. - May 9th, 2008.

Accessible JavaScript: Beyond the Mouse - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/accessible-javascript - Sitepoint - James Edwards - December 13th 2006.

Adrian Holovaty on Mashups and Microformats - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/holovaty-mashups-microformats - By Matthew Magain - October 11th 2007.

Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications - http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php - Jesse James Garrett - February 18, 2005.

Ajax and REST, Part 1 - Advantages of the Ajax/REST architectural style for immersive Web applications - The more that server-side Web applications become immersive by following rich-application models and delivering personalized content, the more their architectures violate Representational State Transfer (REST), the Web's architectural style. These violations can decrease application scalability and increase system complexity. By achieving harmony with REST, Ajax architecture lets immersive Web applications eliminate these negative effects and enjoy REST's desirable properties. - Bill Higgins - Rational, IBM

Ajax and REST, Part 2 - Meeting the challenges of Ajax software development - Ajax has begun to explode in popularity. Old Web frameworks are retrofitting themselves to support Ajax, new pure-Ajax frameworks are under development, and many organizations are considering Ajax adoption or are already building Ajax applications. But for all the excitement, relatively few organizations have deployed Ajax applications successfully. This article, the second in a two-part series, will help you decide if you should use Ajax in real IT applications, and it aims to improve your chances of success with Ajax development. - Bill Higgins - Rational, IBM.

AJAX: Dawn of a new developer - http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2005/jw-1017-ajax.html?page=2 - The latest tools and technologies for AJAX developers - Dave Johnson, JavaWorld.com, 17 October 2005.

Ajax for Java developers: Ajax with Direct Web Remoting - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ajax3/ - IBM - Data serialization doesn't get any easier than this! - Philip McCarthy Software development consultant, Independent 08 Nov 2005.

Ajax info - http://www.ajaxinfo.com/ - Creating the Business Case for Ajax.

AJAX on the Enterprise - http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/10/ajax_on_the_enterprise.html - October 6, 2006.

AJAX & Record Locking - Multiuser web applications have their own challenges - http://www.ddj.com/dept/lightlang/192700218 - Dr Dobb's Portal - David Perelman-Hall - September 08, 2006.

AJAX: Usable Interactivity with Remote Scripting - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/remote-scripting-ajax - Sitepoint - Cameron Adams - July 13th 2005.

AJAXCoded - http://www.ajaxcoded.com/ - Asynchronous JavaScripting and XML. Reviews, Ramblings and Samples.

AJAX gives software a fresh look - CNet News - Martin LaMonica.

AJAX Matters - http://www.ajaxmatters.com/ - AJAX Matters is an informational site about AJAX (short for "Advanced Javascripting and XML" or "Asynchronous JavaScripting and XML") and how these technologies are applied to web development.

AJAX - The Future of the Web - Ezine Articles - Diarmuid Ryan.

Ajaxian - http://www.ajaxian.com/.

AjaxPatterns.org - http://ajaxpatterns.org - AjaxPatterns.org began as a collection of design patterns, which formed the basis of the book, Ajax Design Patterns, and grew into a publicly editable wiki on anything and everything Ajax.

AJAXWorld Conference & Expo Covered by More Than 50 Journalists and Analysts - http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/317350.htm - The first international AJAXWorld Conference & Expo, which took place on October 2 - 4, 2006, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.

AjaxWorld Keynote with Jesse James Garrett - http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2006/10/03/ajaxworld-keynote-with-jesse-james-garrett/ - Jesse James Garrett - October 3rd, 2006.

All Aboard AJAX, HTML Canvas, and the Supertrain - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/01/18/ajax-html-canvas-ruby.html - Dave Hoover - January 18, 2006.

An Introduction to AJAX - http://www.sitepoint.com/videos/videoajaxintro1/ - From the origins of AJAX to current real world examples, this introductory video tutorial will make an AJAX expert out of you in no time!

Avoiding Evil JavaScript - http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/viewissue.php?id=3&issue=158 - Kevin Yank - users that don't have JavaScript-enabled browsers - users that browse without using a mouse - users that browse using a screen reader.

Back to the Future with AJAX - The Pros and Cons of Replacing Desktop Applications with Web Applications - Dr Dobb's Portal - Yoram Meriaz.

BBC Technology News - Have Your Say map: Broadband speed test - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/7426337.stm - The map below shows results from a broadband speed test on the BBC News Website.

Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/build-your-own-ajax-web-apps - By Matthew Eernisse June 28th 2006.

Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications - http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/1/31/build-your-own-ruby-on-rails-web-applications - Free Chapters - By January 31, 2007 - January 31, 2007.

Client Side Coding : JavaScript & AJAX Tutorials - http://www.sitepoint.com/subcat/javascript - Sitepoint.

Cyber Dummy - http://www.cyberdummy.co.uk - tom westcott - Cyberdummy - (PHP, MySQL, Javascript, AJAX)

Dashboard: Developers Face Ajax Compatibility Crisis - http://www.ddj.com/dept/lightlang/193100600 - Dr Dobb's Portal - Although the desire to jump on Web 2.0/Ajax technologies is great, vendors and developers - Nelson King - October 1, 2006.

Debug Your Rails App With ruby-debug - Debug Your Rails App With ruby-debug - One of the best things about the Ruby on Rails framework is that it's undergoing constant change -- it's continually being improved and tweaked. - Patrick Lenz - October 1st 2007.

dhtmlgoodies.com - http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com - A library of DHTML and Ajax scripts.

Direct Web Remoting - http://getahead.org/dwr - Getahead - DWR allows Javascript in a browser to interact with Java on a server and helps you manipulate web pages with the results. DWR is Easy Ajax for Java.

Do Sync Calls Freeze Browsers? - http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/01/do_sync_calls_freeze_browsers.html O'Reilly XML.com - January 28, 2007 - Mark Pruett.

Easy Ajax with jQuery - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/ajax-jquery - Ajax is changing web applications, giving them a responsiveness that's unheard of beyond the desktop. But behind all the hype, there's not much to Ajax -- (X)HTML, JavaScript, and XML are nothing new, and in this tutorial, I'll show you how to simplify the process of adding Ajax to your application even further with the help of jQuery, a popular JavaScript library - Akash Mehta - May 7th 2007.

ExplorerCanvas: Interactive Web Apps - http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2006/05/10/explorercanvas-interactive-web-apps.html - O'Reilly XML.com - Dave Hoover - May 10 2006.

Flex 2: Rich Internet Applications in a Flash! - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/flex-2-internet-applications - By Josh Tynjala.

Get On Track with Ruby on Rails - SitePoint - Daniel Bogan - Blog.

Google is not the leader in Ajax applications - O'Reilly XML.com - Hari K. Gottipati - August 23, 2006.

Google Web Toolkit - Ajax Magazine - http://ajax.phpmagazine.net/2006/05/google_web_toolkit_making_ajax.html - Google Web Toolkit, Making AJAX development easier.

Google Web Toolkit - XML.com - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/07/12/google-web-toolkit-ajax-java-ant-xml.html - Google Web Toolkit - Bruce Perry.

Guide to Using AJAX and XMLHttpRequest from WebPasties - http://www.webpasties.com/xmlHttpRequest/ - XMLHTTPRequest Tutorial by Bill Bercik - 2005.

Hacking Election Maps with XML and MapServer - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/05/31/electionmaps.html - O'Reilly XML.Com - Simon St. Laurent - May 31, 2005.

Hacking Maps with the Google Maps API - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/08/10/google-maps.html - O'Reilly XML.Com - Hari Gottipati - August 10, 2005.

IBM developerWorks Interviews: Rod Smith - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/podcast/dwi/cm-int062806.html - IBM vice president of Emerging Internet Technologies on the business of watching, encouraging, and leveraging new technologies.

IBM QED Wiki - IBM eyes programming for the masses - By Martin LaMonica - CNET News.com.

In Today's World of AJAX and Flex, Is XML Past Its Prime? - http://xml.sys-con.com/read/316504.htm - XML Journal - Is XML Overrated? - Andrew Powell - Feb. 9, 2007.

Introducing Ajax and OpenAjax - http://www.openajax.org/whitepapers/Introducing%20Ajax%20and%20OpenAjax.html - Standardizing Ajax Development - The OpenAjax Alliance has assembled a set of white papers as a guide to help Web developers and IT managers understand and evaluate Ajax, define a successful Ajax strategy, and become familiar the important role OpenAjax plays in the development of the Ajax market.

Introducing E4X - http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/1720 - O'Reilly Xml.com - Kurt Cagle - ECMAscript for XML (more colloquially known as E4X) has had comparatively limited success of adoption in the face of the power of JSON, I suspect partially because of a general ambivalence that the JavaScript community has towards working with XML, but more so because there is comparatively little out there describing how best to take advantage of the features that E4X offers. - November 30, 2007.

Is Ajax Here to Stay? - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/10/05/ajax-web-20-soa.html - Jordan Frank - October 05, 2005.

Is Ajax Our Future? - http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/is-ajax-our-future.html - Rich Tehrani.

Is Your JavaScript Library Standards Compliant? - http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/09/is-your-javascript-library-standards-compliant/ - by Kevin Yank - One of the things JavaScript libraries like jQuery, Dojo, and YUI can do for you is add support for features in the latest Web standards long before they are built into browsers. But are some libraries going too far? - For the developers of JavaScript libraries, there is a temptation to extend the features of the standard, and build something even better! A good example of this is the CSS selector queries that first made jQuery famous, but which are now available in most JavaScript libraries. - May 9th, 2008.

JavaScript - http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Online/webdesign/javascript.html - tutorials - Information Technology Systems & Services - University of Minnesota Duluth.

JavaScript in Screen Readers - http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/viewissue.php?id=3&issue=163#6 - Sitepoint - April 26th, 2007.

JQuery and XML - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/10/10/jquery-and-xml.html - O'Reilly XML.com - Whether you're an admirer of AJAX, or one who can't stand all the hype, if you're a web developer you must admit that it's proven very useful in driving explosive competition among JavaScript utility libraries. And the embarrassment of riches keeps on growing. jQuery emerged a couple of years ago to great acclaim for its performance, elegant design, and handy features, and now it's one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks. - Uche Ogbuji - October 15, 2007.

JQuery - The Web Designer's Fix-all Tool - http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/viewissue.php?id=5&issue=23#5.

JSON.Com - JavaScript Object Notation - http://www.json.com.

Kurt Cagle - Understanding XML.

Learn Ruby on Rails: the Ultimate Beginner's Tutorial - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/learn-ruby-on-rails - By Patrick Lenz - January 31st 2007.

Leveraging the "Global SOA" with Web 2.0 - http://www.soaeosconference.sys-con.com/read/174718.htm - AJAXWorld News Desk Feb. 22, 2006.

Life After Ajax? http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/06/29/deviant.html - Micah Dubinko - June 29, 2005.

Live From AJAX World - Report 1 - http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/10/ajax_world_first_report.html - O'Reilly XML.com - Kurt Cagle - October 3, 2006.

Making XML in a Rails App - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/01/17/making-xml-in-a-rails-app-xml-builder.html - Deepak Vohra - January 17, 2007.

Mastering Ajax Part 1 - Introduction to Ajax - IBM - Brett McLaughlin.

Mastering Ajax Part 2 - Make asynchronous requests with JavaScript and Ajax - IBM - Brett McLaughlin.

Mix and Mash - http://www.btplc.com/Innovation/Innovation/mash/index.htm - Mash-up refers to the unauthorised combination of vocals from one song with the backing music of another - usually from a completely different genre.

Mozilla Developer Center - http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX - Tutorials and articles.

No future for AJAX? - http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=464501 - Many predictions here and there all over the web are stating that we're going towards a web that will be mostly based on RIAs. So of course the platforms technology for these RIAs is very important! - Mar 9, 2007.

Object-oriented JavaScript - http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2006/06/07/object-oriented-javascript.html - XML.Com - Greg Brown.

Online Ajax "desktops" try to change the rules of the game - Dion Hinchcliffe.

Prototype: Easing AJAX's Pain - http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2006/04/05/prototype-javascript-ajax.html - XML.Com - Bruce Perry.

Rest 101: Part 3 - RESTful Design - http://www.softiesonrails.com/2007/4/10/rest-101-part-3-just-call-me-the-repo-man - Softies on Rails.

RESTful Dispatching in Rails - http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2006/04/19/rest-on-rails.html - XML.com - Dan Kubb.

Review: Is Google Still The Ajax King? - InformationWeek - By Preston Gralla and Barbara Krasnoff - TechWeb Aug 23, 2006.

Rolling with Ruby on Rails Part 1 - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html - O'Reilly Databases - Curt Hibbs.

Rolling with Ruby on Rails Part 2 - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/03/03/rails.html - O'Reilly Databases - Curt Hibbs.

RSS and AJAX: A Simple News Reader - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/09/13/rss-and-ajax-a-simple-news-reader.html - O'Reilly XML.com - Paul Sobocinski - September 13, 2006.

RSS and AJAX: Peter Hale Example based based on this tutorial - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/RDF/rssajax.htm - RSS Viewer.

Seattle Movie Finder: An AJAX- and REST-Powered Virtual Earth Mashup - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/03/01/seattle-movie-finder-AJAX-REST-virtual-earth-mashup.html - O'Reilly XML.com - Dare Obasanjo - March 01, 2006.

Serve JavaScript Frameworks Faster with the Google AJAX Library - http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/28/serve-javascript-frameworks-faster-with-the-google-ajax-libraries-api/ - by Andrew Tetlaw - Google has announced an extension to their Google AJAX APIs service: the AJAX Library APIs. They’ve assembled a collection of the most common JavaScript libraries and made them available on their content delivery network. - A common criticism leveled at JavaScript framework libraries is that the same code is downloaded from all the sites that use them, wasting bandwidth and creating duplicate files in the browser's local cache. - May 28th, 2008.

Set Up Ruby on Rails for Windows - http://www.sitepoint.com/videos/videoinstallrails1/ - Video - Start your Rails development career off on the right foot: avoid the pitfalls of installation on Windows.

Simply JavaScript: The Three Layers of the Web - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/simply-javascript - Sitepoint - You can do a lot without JavaScript. Using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML -- throughout this article, we'll refer to HTML and XHTML as just HTML. - By Kevin Yank - June 27th 2007.

Sitepoint - http://www.sitepoint.com/ - Tutorials, Articles, and books.

Sitepoint - Simply JavaScript - http://www.sitepoint.com/books/ - JavaScript - Alex Walker - Example click to turn page - Everything you need to learn JavaScript from scratch! - Kevin Yank & Cameron Adams.

Social networking: Threat or opportunity - David Evans - 22 Jan 2008 - IT-enabled change has a long and glorious history of disruption, of which social networking is but the latest sub-chapter. What can we learn from our previous experiences?

SproutCore: JavaScript Applications - http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/06/25/sproutcore-javascript-applications/ - SitePoint - by Andrew Tetlaw - Revealed by Apple at the recent WWDC as the basis of the MobileMe web applications, is the newest member of the JavaScript framework fraternity: SproutCore. I’m pretty sure that if I told you SproutCore was yet another JavaScript framework for creating rich browser application interfaces, you’d prefer to scrub your eyeballs with steel wool than keep reading. Don't head off just yet though, because SproutCore is quite different from other frameworks and worth taking a look at. - SproutCore is an open source framework for creating desktop-style applications that run in the browser using only HTML, CSS and JavaScript. You first create your application within a local development environment and then use the SproutCore build tools to compile the application in to a set of static files you can place on your web server. The term ‘thick client’ has been coined by SproutCore’s lead developer, Charles Jolley, to describe SproutCore’s approach. SproutCore applications are totally independent of any server-side technology. The whole application runs in the browser; the only interaction with the server is to save or load data via Ajax. - June 25th, 2008.

TechTarget Application Development Media - Ajax all the buzz at Eclipse conference.

The Absolute Moron's Guide to Capistrano - http://www.softiesonrails.com/2007/4/5/the-absolute-moron-s-guide-to-capistrano - Softies on RailsR.

The Ajax Experience - http://ajaxexperience.techtarget.com/east/index.html?Offer=AEdvph102 - October 24-26 2007 - Boston - The Ajax Experience will help you take your Ajax skills to the next level - From newbie to expert, TAE features content appropriate for all levels of Ajax knowledge.

The Future of AJAX is. . .XML? - http://xml.sys-con.com/read/307584.htm - Kurt Cagle - XML Journal - Kurt Cagle To Speak at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East in New York City - Jan. 12, 2007.

The JavaScript Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks - http://www.sitepoint.com/books/jsant1/ - Free Preview - James Edwards & Cameron Adams.

The Man in blue - http://www.themaninblue.com/ - Ajax and Web 2.0 information.

The XSLDataGrid: XSLT Rocks Ajax - O'Reilly XML.com - Lindsey Simon - August 23 2006.

Use AJAX and PHP to Build your Mailing List - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/use-ajax-php-build-mailing-list - Sitepoint - Aarron Walter - November 1st 2006.

Using AJAX in your Web Application - http://www.sitepoint.com/videos/videoajax1/ - Learning AJAX has never been easier! In this 3-part video series, SitePoint's Kevin Yank shows you how you can enhance the usability and functionality of your web applications with AJAX.

What I Didn't Know About XHR - http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/10/what_i_didnt_know_about_xhr.html - Mark Pruett - October 15, 2006.

Whats Ajax? - http://ajaxpatterns.org/Whats_Ajax - A Primer on the Ajax Phenomenon.

What's New in Prototype 1.5? - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/01/24/whats-new-in-prototype-15.html - Scott Raymond - January 24, 2007.

Whip Up a Yahoo! Mashup Using PHP - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/yahoo-mashup-php - So, you want to create your own mashup? Great! Mashups -- web applications that grab information from different external sources and mix it together in new and exciting ways -- are fun to build, popular with users, and oh-so-very Web 2.0. - By Akash Mehta - August 22nd 2007.

Why Accessibility? Because It's Our Job! - http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/10/16/why-accessibility-because-its-our-job/ - by brothercake.

Why Ajax may be the future of Web services - Web Services Tips - Microsoft - Preston Gralla.

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX - Ajax (programming).

XML Journal - http://xml.sys-con.com/ - The World's First and Only Dedicated XML Magazine ! - Ajax Section.

Zimbra - http://www.zimbra.com/blog/archives/2006/04/zimbra_ale-ajax_linking_and_embedding.html - A Pint of ALE - Ajax Linking and Embedding.

XForms Articles/Tutorials

The advantage of XForms is that it creates a dynamic HTML form without having the maintenance headache of maintaining underlying JavaScript or Java code, or really knowing or caring how the HTML is produced. It is also possible to keep testing the XML files, Stylesheets and Schema to ensure they are all working properly together. XForms (Bruchez, 2006) http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/paper/133 is an important enabling technology for creation of interactive web pages to allow users to enter information. XForms separate the content from the presenation.

Capturing Information

One possibility investigated is the use of XForms (Bruchez, 2006)(Dubinko, 2005) based web forms to capture the information required for each node in a tree. The XForms could be made to look like a web page, spreadsheet, or whatever tool the user is most familiar with. This could be used as a way to capture the information from the users for an ontology. An example of this is Orbeon Forms, which is open source software that can store information in an Exist XML database. XForms can be the basis for interactive applications that are easier to maintain than the HTML and JavaScript forms created earlier in this research. XForms can be used for managing information from XML files. It is possible to add, delete and edit any XML file, so this provides a user interface for end users to create XML documents online, which can represent models. The most important consideration for use of XForms for end user programming is to visualise and allow editing of the information structures, rather than depend on the structure being understood from its text representation. The figure shows example wing component information edited using this system.

Wingbox Product Ordering Example - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/FormFaces/Examples/WingBox/index.html.

XML Based Software for capturing information

This application allows for selecting of components and sub components, and calculates the total cost. XForms was also used to manage staff information, so it was particularly easy to reuse XForms from one application, for a different application, by editing the XML and Form. This online editing could be expanded to enable online creation and editing of models. Until recently Protégé was used in this research to perform this task offline, future work will involve construction of an online user interface for model creation software that makes use of XForms and other XML and RDF programming standards. My other interactive examples on this research site demonstrate the kind of calculation and modelling that could now be achieved more easily using XForms (Bruchez, 2006). For these examples, combinations of XML and JavaScript were used that work in a similar way to XForms and enable the same kinds of user interaction. XForms can be used in combination with XQuery (McGovern et al., 2003) to allow for a completely XML based interactive application, as shown below.

Components Example - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/XML/XML.htm#XQuery

Automated Generation of Web Forms

The changes made by the user are fed back to the XML, so users can change information, and thus change the model without ever needing to see the XML code. The reason for investigation of XForms is that a combination of ontology work translated and linked to the XForms XML files, schemas and stylesheets, can enable creation of a web based user interface for modelling and ontology management. This allows for testing of the techniques advocated in my research.

Technologies such as XForms, XQuery, and SPARQL make it possible to provide the sort of collaborative interactivity that Berners-Lee calls 'Intercreativity' in Weaving the Web (Berners-Lee, 1999).

Recent developments in the use of Meta languages for platform independence should make the development of end-user programming quicker and easier. Bishop (2006) explains current problems "The current practice is for GUIs to be specified by creating objects, calling methods to place them in the correct places in a window, and then linking them to code that will process any actions required. If hand-coded, such a process is tedious and error-prone; if a builder or designer program is used, hundreds of lines of code are generated and incorporated into one's program, often labeled 'do not touch'. Either approach violates the software engineering principles of efficiency and maintainability." The author investigates, evaluates and advocates the use of platform independent programming languages. Further research after this thesis will involve investigating the use of Meta languages such as Simkin for modelling and virtual reality, OpenLaszlo for web applications (mentioned in Bishop, 2006), and XForms (Bruchez, 2006) for the interface to modelling tools and other applications that require user interaction.

The figure below illustrates the solution to be created, now the problems that need solving in computing technology have been investigated, and the research that is could provide a solution has been prototyped. This combines the thesis research, and that from the projects of others in End User Programming, the Semantic Web, and Modelling referenced in this research.

Solution for User Driven Programming - Automated Generation of Web Forms - Architecture for User Generated Content Creation

Solution for User Driven Programming - Architecture for User Generated Content Creation

The Translator will automatically create the Schema and Stylesheets from the Ontology, and needs to update this only when the Ontology is changed.
The Editor and Viewing and Tagging Interface can be created automatically from the Schema, Information, and Stylesheets.
In Response to the Actions of the User that result in a request for information, the Translator -
- Makes the request to the Ontology.
- Receives Information back.
- Forwards this to the Information Holder.
- The Editor and Viewing and Tagging interfaces are updated automatically.
The purpose of the Viewing and Tagging is to visualise the information and allow tagging of items to explain the meaning, and add nodes to give further understanding of the item. This additional information could be fed back to the ontology to assist improving it.

The solution involves an ontology and a translator that communicates with the user through XML that is visualised via the web, and the translator communicates with the ontology. This translator therefore provides two way interaction between the editor and the ontology. This provides automated generation of web forms and applications.

This combination of web 2.0 and XML technology behind an adaptable and extensible user interface enables experts who may have no knowledge of Semantic Web or programming to create, manage, use and edit applications. This would enable user-generated Semantic Web information to be produced and so create an incentive for development/linking of further semantic web applications for use by end user modellers/programmers. Such argument and examples are developed further in this section on Semantic Web and Web 2.0 research - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/RDF/RDF.htm#SemanticWebandWeb2Research.

Further Information -

Components Drag and Drop AJAX Example - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Ajax/components.html - Based on Example from Scand dhtmlxTree.

Examples - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/XML/XML.htm#Examples.

Programming with XML - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/XML/XML.htm#ProgrammingwithXML.

RDF Information - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/RDF/RDF.htm.

XML Research Summary - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/XML/XML.htm#XMLResearchSummary.

XQuery Information - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/XML/XML.htm#XQuery.

References

Berners-Lee T, 1999, Weaving the Web, Harper San Francisco, ISBN 0062515861.

Multi-platform user interface construction: a challenge for software engineering-in-the-small - Bishop, J., 2006 - International Conference on Software Engineering, Proceeding of the 28th international conference on Software engineering - SESSION: Software engineering: achievements & challenges: domain-specific challenges 751 - 760 - ISBN:1-59593-375-1.

Bruchez, E, 2006. XForms: an Alternative to Ajax?. In: XTech 2006: Building Web 2.0 16-19 May 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/paper/133.

Dubinko, M., 2005. XForms Essentials, O'Reilly - http://xformsinstitute.com/essentials/ - Author's Official Page for O'Reilly XForms Essentials - Downloadable Book and Examples.

McGovern, J., Cagle, K., Bothner, P., Nagarajan, V., Linn, J., 2003., XQuery Kick Start, Sams 1st edition.

Internal Articles/Examples

Components Example Using XQuery and XForms (FormFaces) Combined - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/FormFaces/Examples/WingBox/index.html - Adapted from research of Chris Wallace.

Wingbox Product Ordering Example - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/FormFaces/Examples/WingBox/index.html - Based on the FormFaces - BookStore example - http://www.formfaces.com/faces/Examples/index.html.

External Articles/Examples

Adriaan de Jonge - http://adriaandej.blogspot.com/ - My perspective on modeling and software development. XForms Tutorial.

AJAX does not compete with XForms ! - http://blogs.nuxeo.com/sections/blogs/eric_barroca/2005_09_05_ajax-does-not-compete - Eric Barroca - I've read and heard several time things like "XForms is not ready, let's use AJAX", "Why use XForms instead of AJAX?", "AJAX is simpler than XForms", "Let's do AJAX now and XForms later", etc. Well I really don't think AJAX should be considered as a competitor of XForms. They don't address same issues and offer same features. They are complementary, not competitors !

Are Server-Side XForms Engines the Future of XForms? - http://www.idealliance.org/proceedings/xtech05/papers/03-08-03/ - Erik Bruchez - XTech 2005 Conference.

Chiba - http://chiba.sourceforge.net/ - Chiba is an Open Source Java Implementation of the W3C XForms standard 'that represents the next generation of forms for the Web'.

CSCI E-153, Web Development Using XML - http://cscie153.dce.harvard.edu/lecture_notes/2006/20061212/handout.html - Harvard University - Division of Continuing Education - ExtensionSchool.

Design tips for interchanging forms - http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/04/design_tips_for_interchanging.html - April 28, 2007 - Rick Jelliffe - As governments and organizations increasingly adopt document standards, such as ODF, for data interchange and to allow non-Microsoft products a better level-playing field, designers of documents and forms will need to alter their approaches so that users can print or display the forms on their particular without concern.

EELS: Embedded E-Learning Solution - http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/whatwedo/projectsaz/project?search=Embedded%20E-Learning%20Solution - The EELS (Embedded E-Learning Solutions) project is a two year software development project funded by the University of Bristol. - The aim of the project is to develop a data entry system for collecting student practical work. Involved in the trial are staff and students within the Schools of Veterinary, Medicine and Dentistry science. - The project has designed and developed the Clinical Experience Recorder, an online web-based system for recording students' clinical clerking cases and allowing tutors to review and assess their students' material.

FormFaces - http://www.formfaces.com/main.html - XForm AJAX Form Tool.

FormFaces - BookStore example - http://www.formfaces.com/faces/Examples/index.html.

FormsPlayer - http://www.formsplayer.com/content/index.html - XForm AJAX Form Tool.

Improving the Web Forms Experience - http://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/10-steven-xformstutorial/ - Steven Pemberton - Steven Pemberton is a researcher at the CWI, The Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, a nationally-funded research centre in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the first non-military Internet site in Europe.

Intalio - http://www.intalio.com/products/index.html - Business Process Management System (BPMS) (Uses Orbeon XForms - automates this).

Kurt Cagle - Understanding XForms:Components - O'Reilly XML.com - June 23 2006.

Kurt Cagle - Understanding XForms:Events and Actions - O'Reilly XML.com - August 2nd 2006.

Migrating to XForms - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/11/01/migrating-to-xforms-php.html - O'Reilly XML.com - Paul Sobocinski - November 01, 2006.

OpenLaszlo - http://www.laszlosystems.com/developers/OpenLaszlo - Developer Zone.

Orbeon - http://www.orbeon.com/ - Orbeon XForms Presentation Server.

Orbeon Blog - http://www.orbeon.com/blog/XForms - XForms Everywhere.

Orbeon Report - Orbeon Report - Doc - PDF.

O'Reilly - XML.com - http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/04/chaos_storms_and_metamagicians.html - Chaos Storms and Metamagicians - April 22, 2007 - XForms, Meta Software - by Kurt Cagle.

O'Reilly - XML.com - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/12/30/xforms.html - Getting Started with XForms - Bob DuCharme - December 30, 2003.

The XForms Portal - http://www.xforms.org/portal/ - W3C XForms represents a significant new technology for creating rich, secure, easy to work with and XML ready web applications. This site is dedicated to building the XForms community, providing a common entry point for people seeking more information or help with XForms development and benefits, and showcasing the best of the best in XForms technology.

W3C - http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/ - XForms 1.0 (Second Edition) - W3C Recommendation 14 March 2006.

Why XForms Matter, Revisited - http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/03/why_xforms_matter_revisited.html - Kurt Cagle - March 19, 2006 - A profound change is likely about to shake up your world if you're a web developer, one that I suspect will make the recent efforts in the AJAX space pale in comparison as far as its effect. Very quietly, over the last few weeks, the Mozilla team has been upgrading their XForms capabilities through the use of an XForms extension.

XForms: an Alternative to Ajax? - http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/paper/133 - Erik Bruchez, Orbeon, Inc - XTech 2006: Building Web 2.0 16-19 May 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - At last year's XTech 2005 conference, we introduced server-side XForms as the most promising way of making XForms a reality on the web in the short-term. In this year's paper, we discuss how the promise of bringing the capabilities of XForms to today's deployed web browsers has materialized with open source Ajax-based implementations.

XForms 1.0 Third Edition Published as a W3C Recommendation. - http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2007-10-30-a.html - W3C has announced the publication of XForms 1.0 (Third Edition) as a W3C Recommendation, signifying that there is significant support for the specification from the Advisory Committee, the W3C Team, W3C Working groups, and the public. - Forms are an important part of the Web, and they continue to be the primary means for enabling interactive Web applications. Web applications and electronic commerce solutions have sparked the demand for better Web forms with richer interactions. XForms 1.0 is the response to this demand, and provides a new platform-independent markup language for online interaction between a person (through an XForms Processor) and another agent, usually remote. - News: Cover Stories - October 30, 2007.

XForms and Internet Applications - http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/ - Stuff to do with producing a new generation of Internet Applications...biased towards XForms!

Xforms@code4lib - http://xforms.code4lib.org/index/wiki - A collaborative environment for talking about and creating metadata editing solutions. We will be using Subversion to share example XForms and to collaboratively develop new solutions.

XForms Example - Form Editor - Created Using FormFaces and eXist.

XForms/eXist - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XForms/eXist - From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection.

XForms Institute - http://xformsinstitute.com/ - Interactive XForms School - XForms Tutorials and Examples.

XForms Institute - XForms Essentials - http://xformsinstitute.com/essentials/ - Author's Official Page for O'Reilly XForms Essentials - Downloadable Book and Examples. - Micah Dubinko.

XForms meets Ajax: Can they get along? - http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid26_gci1174466,00.html - Web Services News: By Rich Seeley, News Writer 21 Mar 2006.

XForms.org - The XForms Community Forum - http://www.xforms.org/ - A forum to discuss the promotion of the of the XForms standard.

XForms Portal - http://www.xforms.org/portal/ - The XForms Portal - Applications for the Twenty First Century.

XForms Thick Clients - http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/1718 - O'Reilly XML.com - By Jack Cox - October 19, 2007 - All designers and developers face the problems of vague requirements, poorly defined data models, and last minute requirement changes. These sad facts of life drive some developers to embrace a document-driven architecture,but this approach usually breaks down when confronted with an environment that includes non-network attached devices that necessitate a thick-client application. This article describes the components and techniques for building a document-driven, thick-client application using XForms that operates on a non-network attached system.

XForms, XML Schema, and ROX - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/08/16/xforms-xml-schema-and-rox.html - Kurt Cagle introduces ROX Server, a RESTful system for deriving XForms from XML Schemas and instance data. - Kurt Cagle - August 17, 2007.

XPath Evaluation in Repeat Templates - Mark Birbeck - Forms Player article.

XTech Conference - Building Rich, Encapsulated Widgets Using XBL, XForms and SVG - Mark Birbeck, x-port.net Ltd.

My XQuery Section - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/XML/XML.htm#XQuery.

Language and Tool Mapping

Web 2.0

Highly interactive web pages that act like programs to provide a user interface can be used to provide an interactive user driven programming environment.

In the Cabinet office report 'The Power of Information' (Mayo and Steinberg) it is recommended that better access to and improved sharing of information can benefit the UK economy. To make this end-user modelling possible we have investigated the mechanisms of Web 2.0 and applications such as Google web spreadsheets (Google, 2007). These applications are increasing in popularity, and can provide modelling capability over the Web, the use of Web 2.0 is examined by (JISC, 2007). Interactivity is the key to human involvement in the Semantic Web, with the person as a programmer.

References

Google, 2007. Create and share your work online https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount.

JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) - What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf - JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) Technology and Standards Watch, Feb. 2007 - Paul Anderson - Within 15 years the Web has grown from a group work tool for scientists at CERN into a global information space with more than a billion users. Currently, it is both returning to its roots as a read/write tool and also entering a new, more social and participatory phase. These trends have led to a feeling that the Web is entering a 'second phase' - a new, 'improved' Web version 2.0. But how justified is this perception?

Mayo, E., Steinberg, T., The Power of Information, 2007 - http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/publications/reports/power_information/power_information.pdf?id=3965 - Cabinet Office - An independent review by - Ed Mayo and Tom Steinberg - June 2007 - The government’s response.

Web 2.0 Tools

Document Editing and Collaboration

37signals - http://www.37signals.com/ - Basecamp - Project management and collaboration - Collaborate with your team and clients. Schedules, tasks, files, messages, and more.

Adobe launches Apollo, its web application runtime for the desktop - http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070319-apollo-takes-flight-as-adobe-lures-web-devs-to-the-desktop.html - Jeremy Reimer - March 19, 2007.

Ajaxwrite - Ajaxwrite (Reads and Writes Word Documents).

First Look: Google Gears - http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/06/08/first-look-google-gears/ - Kevin Yank.

FormFaces - http://www.formfaces.com/main.html - XForm AJAX Form Tool.

FormsPlayer - http://www.formsplayer.com/content/index.html - XForm AJAX Form Tool.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets Tour - http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html - Create basic documents and spreadsheets from scratch.

Google Gears (BETA). - http://gears.google.com/ - Enabling Offline Web Applications.

Google Launches Enterprise Software Solution - The SEO Blog - By Ross Dunn, CEO, StepForth Search Engine Placement Inc. - August 28, 2006.

Google launches web spreadsheet - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5051610.stm - BBC Technology News/Business News.

Google page creator - Google Page Creator (Now owns writely.com).

Google pushes into Office space - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6038364.stm - BBC News Business - Wednesday, 11 October 2006.

Plone - http://plone.org - Plone: A user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System.

Ruby on the Rails - Ruby on the Rails - Open Source environment for creating web pages using Ajax and database back end.

System One - http://www.systemone.at/en/ - System One combines human intelligence and machine power in an intuitive web-based application.

Vyew - Create. Connect. Collaborate. - http://vyew.com/content/ - Vyew provides a virtual space to share information and work together. Get your point across visually. Host live conferences and interact in real-time. Post documents and presentations for review and commenting anytime.

WordPress - WordPress.

Writely.com - User Driven Programming explanation - Created with writely.com.

Zoho - Zoho writer.

Interactive Examples

Chris Wallace's AJAX Examples, explanations and documents - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~cjwallac/apps/ajax/index.html.

Christophe Bru Cost Map Example - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~cbru/fixed.htm.

Flash movie that presents the concepts behind my work - User Driven Modelling Demonstration.

Flex 2 - UWE Example Built Using Sitepoint Tutorial - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/AMRCMembers/bin/AMRCMembers.html - Member Profile Viewer/Editor.

Interactive Flash Example.

Interactive SVG Examples.

RSS and AJAX: Peter Hale Example based based on this tutorial - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/RDF/rssajax.htm - RSS Viewer.

Tag Cloud - Programme Search by Tag Cloud - UWE - Faculty Online Data (FOLD).

Visualisation and Interaction - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/#VisualisationandInteraction - Other Explanations and Examples.

Web 2.0 Articles/Websites

A Web 2.0 Checklist - http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/9233 - O' Reilly - Kurt Cagle - Feb 22 2006.

About microformats - http://microformats.org/about/ - Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.

Adhering To Web Standards To Improve Business - http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/expertarticles/wpn-62-20060620AdheringtoWebStandardstoImproveBusiness.html - WebPro News - Adhering To Web Standards To Improve BusinessYuri Filimonov - 20th June 2006.

Are network effects getting weaker? - http://www.skrenta.com/2007/06/are_network_effects_getting_we.html - I was thinking about how fast Facebook has replaced Linkedin for my valley connections. In a period of about 2 months, it seems like most of my contacts have all deserted linkedin and moved to facebook. - June 21, 2007.

British Computer Society - Cerf's up - Cerf's up - For the first in a series of interviews with key figures in the IT industry for BCS's 50th anniversary, Brian Runciman spoke to Vint Cerf, Google's chief web evangelist.

Bill Thompson - andfinally.com - Bill Thompson

Brian Kelly - UKOLN - http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/b.kelly/ - UK Web Focus.

British Computer Society - Bebo 'top social site' - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.16706 - Social networking website Bebo is the best of its kind, according to Computing Which? magazine. - Research by the publication rated the San Francisco-based website with a score of 79 per cent, five per cent ahead of rival Facebook - 04/01/2008.

British Computer Society - Berners-Lee 'wary' of all web tracking - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.18272 - 17/03/2008 - Senior researcher at MIT and so-called inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has condemned all variations of ecommerce-based web tracking that serves to target certain audiences based on their browsing habits. - His comments follow the debate over an internet ad platform developed by web technology company Phorm, whose clients include such companies as TalkTalk and Carphone Warehouse.

British Computer Society IT Now - One application to rule them all - Dr Beran Necat - September 2006.

British Computer Society - Myspace launches UK games tool - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.19084 - 07/05/2008 - Social networking site Myspace has launched a free UK gaming channel. - The games can be added to users' profiles to display their results. Casual gamers can also chat and compare notes with other people playing the same game.

Building a wall free Digital Tomorrow - http://www.starstryder.com/2008/01/22/building-a-wall-free-digital-tomorrow/ - Star Stryder - Dr. Pamela L. Gay - Jan 22nd, 2008.

CONNECTIONS - The Digital Living Conference and Showcase.

Continuing an Industry Discussion: The Co-Evolution of SOA and Web 2.0 - http://web2.wsj2.com/continuing_an_industry_discussion_the_coevolution_of_soa_and.htm - Dion Hinchcliffe.

Dr Dobb's Portal - Lightweight Languages - http://www.ddj.com/dept/lightlang/.

Facebook dismisses privacy fears - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6990767.stm - Facebook's 40 million users should not worry that personal details will be available to anyone searching the net. - Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent, BBC News - 12 September 2007.

Facebook Grows Old: Goodbye Trendy Demographics - Insider Chatter by Donna Bogatin - July 6 2007.

Facebook Opens Up To Public Search - http://gigaom.com/2007/09/05/facebook-open-to-public-search/ - Written by Om Malik - One of the great features of Facebook was privacy. You could be assured that what was in Facebook remained in Facebook. However, that illusion might be ending soon. - September 5, 2007.

Forbes and the "Real" Marketing Potential of SL - Kotaku.com - It seems like everyone and their grandma is setting up shop in the marketing utopia that is Second Life with uncharted success, but it just can't be that easy. According to Forbes magazine, it's not. And not just for the reasons you think. - June 25, 2007.

Goal Post on Facebook. It's an easy, visual way to set your goals, choose your accountability buddies, and keep track of your progress. Check it out and reach those goals in 2008.

Google Apps No Microsoft Threat Yet - WebProNews - David A. Utter - 2006-08-28.

Google Apps: Should You Switch? - http://www.wired.com/software/softwarereviews/news/2007/02/72781 - Wired Magazine 22 February 2007 - Michael Calore.

Google Docs have a new feature -- Embeddable Presentations. You can now embed slideshows from Google Docs onto a web site, blog, and so on. - http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-features-for-2008.html - New features for 2008! -January 4th 2008.

Google Health launched - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConBlogEntry.442 - Google Health has finally be launched. How it will evolve, and whether it will be as strong a competitor to other personal health records as other Google products are in their relevant spheres remains to be seen. - Google has finally launched 'Google Health' after months of speculation. It is available within their profile to anyone who has a Google/Gmail account. - Peter Murray - 20 May 2008.

Google Makes Calendar Publishable - Webpronews.com - Jason Lee Miller.

Google: NASA should collaborate with public - http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/17/Google-Schmidt-NASA-public-collaborate_1.html - INFOWORLD - By Grant Gross, IDG News Service - January 17, 2008 - Google chairman and CEO cites Google Earth as an example of what can come about when NASA works with agencies outside the government.

Google Summer of Code - http://code.google.com/soc - Accepted student applications for Google Summer of Code have been announced! We accepted over 900 student applicants from a pool of nearly 6,200 applications.

Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies - Forrester Incorporating Charlene Li's Blog - http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/ - Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff - The world is changing. And we're not going to sit by and watch. We're not just going to document what we see. We're seeking to understand what's happening, really understand it. And to help you to deal with it. - In this blog, and the book that will spring from it, we call it this change the Groundswell - a spontaneous movement of people connecting, using online tools, taking charge of their own experience, and getting what they need - information, support, ideas, products, and bargaining power - from each other.

Health 2.0 conference - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConBlogEntry.161 - The Health 2.0 conference takes place in San Francisco this week. The idea of 'user-generated healthcare' is potentially challenging to health care systems around the world - will we in the UK, especially the health informatics community, become engaged with it, or remain tied to monolithic dinosaurs like NHS Connecting for Health? - Peter Murray - 18 Sep 2007.

Health news portals and Web 2.0 - BCS (British Computer Society) - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConBlogEntry.316 - Release Zero Blog - Random jottings from the health informatics ecosphere. - Peter Murray - Part of the ethos of the Web 2.0 meme is user involvement to generate social networks and spaces. One way of doing this is to encourage members of a 'community' to both submit news and vote to promote it. Two health-related sites are using this approach. - 5 Feb 2008.

How Will Microsoft Respond To Online Office Threat - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_office_online_threat.php - West Suffolk College E-Learning News.

IBM developerWorks Interviews: Tim Berners-Lee - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/podcast/dwi/cm-int082206.txt - Tim Berners-Lee Originator of the Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium talks about where we've come, and about the challenges and opportunities ahead recorded 28 September 2006.

I'm forever blowing bubbles - Future of Computing - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.12163 - Wallpaper to suit your mood, clothes connected to the internet and work being fun - it's a vision of the future.... British Computer Society - Robin Mannings - July 2007.

I'm sick of users - The more I write and read about social media, the more frustrated I get with the term "users." - http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/2007/07/im-sick-of-user.html - Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff - Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies - Forrester Incorporating Charlene Li's Blog.

Is the BBC playing fair? - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConBlogEntry.56 - British Computer Society BCS Unqualified Remarks Blog - Examining the issues beyond and between the IT community - The BBC is being challenged by the Open Source Consortium about their launch of the iPlayer service on Windows. Sensible business strategy or evil 'corporateness'? You decide. - David Evans - 24 Jul 2007.

It's All in the [Search] Packaging - http://gigaom.com/2007/09/13/smart/ - The explosion of content on the Internet is making searching for information difficult once again. It is one of the reason we are seeing a sharp increase in the number of companies - vertical search engines and wiki-based collaborations - Om Malik - September 13, 2007.

Metaplace - Online Virtual World Builder - http://www.metaplace.com/.

Metaplace - Online Virtual World Builder My Blog Post - http://userdrivenmodelling.blogspot.com/2007/09/metaplace-online-virtual-world-builder.html.

Microformats: More Meaning from Your Markup - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/microformats-meaning-markup - By Brian Suda - You've probably heard the term "microformat" and assumed it to be part of some Web 2.0 flash-in-the-pan movement. But "microformat" is not just a fancy name or trademark - it's part of a much bigger picture. So, what are microformats? - July 24th 2007.

NASA's New Look - Universe Today - Written by Nancy Atkinson - NASA unveiled a new look for its website over the weekend, and hopes that blogs, interactive features, and a customizable layout will especially appeal to 18-25 year olds. - December 3rd, 2007.

NASA Learning Technologies - NASA - http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/ - Educational Resources - http://learn.arc.nasa.gov/education/education.html - National Aeronautics and Space Administration ... Learning Technologies.

NASA Multimedia - http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/index.html.

NASA MMO - massively multiplayer online learning game - http://ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/mmo/ - NASA Learning Technologies Request for Information: Development of a NASA-based massively multiplayer online learning game - The NASA Learning Technologies (LT) project supports the development of projects that deliver NASA content through innovative applications of technologies to enhance education in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

Nasa to recruit through online games? - British Computer Society (BCS) - The US space agency is considering the idea of developing a massive multiplayer online (MMO) game that would be aimed at teaching pupils how to simulate space missions. - Nasa believes the game could help recruit the next generation of scientists and engineers needed to carry out its "vision for space exploration". - The agency has built what is called CoLab, an island in Second Life virtual reality where people and groups with an interest in space related subjects can meet and perform experiments. - The latest proposal has come from Nasa's Learning Technologies Project Office that supports education projects to promote science and technology. - 21/01/2008.

Office 2.0 - How NESTA is using social tools & web apps - http://blogs.nesta.org.uk/innovation/2007/08/office-20---how.html - In an earlier comment, I mentioned that I'd post about what social tools we are using at NESTA, and the timing seems just right, as I've been invited to speak about this same subject at the Office 2.0 conference next week. In fact, it hadn't clicked just how many ways we've embraced the whole '2.0' way of working until I scanned the list of conference sponsors to find that we're using quite a few of their products/tools - August 30, 2007.

Research identifies web-savvy 'Generation C' - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.10427 - The report by the Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC) for web firm Rackspace Managed Hosting reveals that Generation C, which will be in its middle age by 2020, is more able to communicate with a wide range of people and find common ground with those they might not have encountered before the advent of the web. 12/03/2007.

Sitepoint - http://www.sitepoint.com/ - Tutorials, Articles, and books.

Sitepoint - http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/10/13/web-20-is-about/ - Web 2.0 is about...- by Kevin Yank.

Social network sites - An SME business opportunity - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.8451 - With social networking sites attracting unprecedented levels of traffic and interaction (overtaking even the likes of Google), Fasthosts' Andy McLaughlin explores how small businesses can use this communication channel to create new business opportunities.

Social software and learning - http://www.futurelab.org.uk/research/opening_education/social_software_01.htm - Futeurelab - An Opening Education report from Futurelab By Martin Owen, Lyndsay Grant, Steve Sayers and Keri Facer.

Social technologies can help health says Intellect - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.20165 - British Computer Society (BCS) - 14/07/2008 - The UK technology sector's trade association Intellect has claimed that Web 2.0 has a part to play in the future of the NHS. - Intellect was welcoming the report on health informatics in the NHS when it made the claim. - The association also feels that early engagement with the technology industry is necessary for informatics to be properly implemented and that the industry in the UK can provide the required expertise to create the systems that will support the new informatics proposals, with Web 2.0 featuring.

SPARQL: Web 2.0 Meet the Semantic Web - http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2005/09/sparql_web_20_meet_the_semanti.html - O'Reilly XML.com - Kendall Clark - September 16, 2005.

Techcrunch - http://www.techcrunch.com/.

Techniques for Authoring Complex XML Documents - http://wam.inrialpes.fr/publications/2004/DocEng2004VQIV.html - DocEng 2004 - ACM Symposium on Document Engineering Milwaukee October 28-30 - This paper reviews the main innovations of XML and considers their impact on the editing techniques for structured documents.

The Business Benefits of Web Standards - http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/The_Business_Benefits_of_Web_Standards - Mozilla Development Center.

The Future of the Web: What to Expect in 2008 - http://www.sitepoint.com/article/future-of-the-web-2008 - How will the Web of today evolve into the Web of tomorrow? The way we think of web development -- as HTML pages on a server being accessed by desktop browsers -- is about to change. The way we'll access the Web, the way we replicate and accept data, even the formats in which the data is passed, are all changing. - By Brian Suda.

The Googly way to localised search - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConBlogEntry.260 - British Computer Society (BCS) - Jude Umeh - 30 Nov 2007 - Google has gone one step further towards providing the ultimate search experience by creating a location based search service built on mobile technology (without GPS). If this works out, then surely it won't be long before we can find things we haven't even searched for, right? It is a very Googly thing.

THE-MOON WIKI - http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Introduction - This wiki - The-Moon - is an experiment to collect data about individual features, arranged alphabetically by name. As a wiki anyone (after registering) can add or edit every entry.

The New Wisdom of the Web - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12015774/site/newsweek/page/2/ - MSNBC - Why is everyone so happy in Silicon Valley again? A new wave of start-ups are cashing in on the next stage of the Internet. And this time, it's all about ... you.

The Next Web? - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/03/15/next-web-xhtml2-ajax.html - Simon St Laurent 17 March 2006.

The semantic web is a long time coming - http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/comment/2167688/semantic-web-long-coming - Despite plenty of good intentions, smart text searching still beats the fledgling RDF technology - IT Week, 01 Nov 2006 - Tim Anderson.

The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem - http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000527.html - March 13, 2008 - The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem - A few weeks ago, we began talking about the new Yahoo! Search open platform. Today, we're releasing more details about two important components of the initiative -- the developer platform as well as our support of a number of semantic web standards. - The Data Web in Action - While there has been remarkable progress made toward understanding the semantics of web content, the benefits of a data web have not reached the mainstream consumer. Without a killer semantic web app for consumers, site owners have been reluctant to support standards like RDF, or even microformats. We believe that app can be web search. - By supporting semantic web standards, Yahoo! Search and site owners can bring a far richer and more useful search experience to consumers. For example, by marking up its profile pages with microformats, LinkedIn can allow Yahoo! Search and others to understand the semantic content and the relationships of the many components of its site. With a richer understanding of LinkedIn's structured data included in our index, we will be able to present users with more compelling and useful search results for their site. The benefit to LinkedIn is, of course, increased traffic quality and quantity from sites like Yahoo! Search that utilize its structured data.

Thinking Out Loud: Facebook - http://battellemedia.com/archives/003957.php - As part of my preparation for Web 2, I am going to think out loud and ask for all of your help. This year's program for Web 2 includes an amazing array of leaders, and it'll be my job, along with my co-producer Tim O'Reilly, to engage these folks in conversation worthy of the audience's time. - September 16, 2007.

Thinking XML: The XML decade - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-think38.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01XMLDecade - IBM - Uche Ogbuji, Principal Consultant, Fourthought Inc.14 Nov 2006.

TONIC - http://www.netskills.ac.uk/content/products/online/index.html - Netskills - The Free to Use Internet Course.

Towards Active Web Clients - http://wam.inrialpes.fr/publications/2005/DocEng05-Quint.html - DocEng 2005 - ACM Symposium on Document Engineering - 2-4 November 2005 - Bristol, United Kingdom. - Recent developments of document technologies have strongly impacted the evolution of Web clients over the last fifteen years, but all Web clients have not taken the same advantage of this advance. In particular, mainstream tools have put the emphasis on accessing existing documents to the detriment of a more cooperative usage of the Web. However, in the early days, Web users were able to go beyond browsing and to get more actively involved.

Trade unions defend social network sites - http://www.scenta.co.uk/home/1703819/trade-unions-defend-social-network-sites.htm - TUC claims rights for workers to use Facebook, MySpace and Bebo. - The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has today called for employers to revoke bans of popular social networking websites, which some see as being 'time wasters'. - August 30, 2007.

Translation And Pipelining Applied To End-User Programming - This research involves using Semantic Web technologies to enable end user programming.

TV4U and you and you - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.11778 - British Computer Society - Narichika Hamaguchi - Mass media, television in particular, has historically been produced and distributed by professionals. However, over the past few years, we've seen the emergence of media created by ordinary users in the form of text and video blogs, a development that significantly lowered the threshold for the production and dissemination of video content created by ordinary users - July 2007.

UniverseToday - GoogleNASA - Google and NASA Ames announced today that they'll be forming a new partnership to work together on several space-related projects - December 18th, 2006.

Universe Today - Social Networking Site Bebo Wants to Contact Aliens - Written by Ian O'Neill - Social networking sites are the backbone of "Web 2.0" and now one of the most popular sites, Bebo (popular with a younger demographic), hopes to reach out to extraterrestrial civilizations. Why? Well, the power of social networking sites like Bebo, Facebook and MySpace is that you can keep in touch with friends, make new friends and electronically hang out with people with similar interests. So Bebo will invite its users, celebrities and politicians to post messages that "consider the planet from a fresh perspective" and raise awareness of environmental pressures on Earth. In this day and age of democratically selecting news on the Internet (much like another Web 2.0 phenomenon, social bookmarking; like Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit etc.), rather than letting mainstream media select "what news is important," Bebo users will vote the top 500 messages to be transmitted to a small red dwarf star, Gliese 581 in the hope of communicating what really matters to Bebo users. - July 31st, 2008.

UWE students get podcasts on the brain - http://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/uwenews/article.asp?item=992&year=2007 - Students studying Applied Biology and Psychology at the University of the West of England are reaping the benefits of their lecturer's innovative approach to teaching by downloading a series of lectures on the brain to their phones and iPods which they can then listen to whenever they choose.

VastPark - http://www.vastpark.com/ - VastPark is a virtual content platform that enables you to create and deploy your own 3D virtual world within minutes.

Web 2.0 - Powerpoint Presentation - Chris Wallace - UWE.

Web 2.0 'boom' predicted for firms - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.13126 - BCS British Computer Society - Businesses are set to benefit from the widespread adoption of consumer Web 2.0 technology, according to one expert. Speaking to the Financial Times, Cisco Systems chief executive John Chambers said that the social networking model used by sites such as MySpace and Facebook could be utilised by firms to provide greater communication channels within and between organisations.

Web 2.0 in Science - http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2006/04/web_20_in_science.html - nature.com.

Web 2.0 Meets SmartMobs: Howard Rheingold Views On Web 2.0 - Exclusive Interview - Howard Rheingold Interview - Robin Good - October 4, 2006.

Web 2.0 not understood by some - British Computer Society (BCS) - 6th September 2007 - Many firms have not yet invested in the Web 2.0 movement as a result of failing to comprehend the advantages of doing so, according to new research. - Other reasons given by European businesses for avoiding Web 2.0 included concerns over security and content regulation, the study by BEA Systems revealed.

Web 2.0: people not products - British Computer Society - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.17057 - The social capabilities and dynamics of web 2.0 have created a shift to self-serve, with users expecting to find content easily and complete tasks on their own. Whatever a site's conversion goal, it's now about people rather than products or services, argues Mona Patel, executive director of Human Factors International. - The essence of 2.0 is the web's transformation from a company-centric, information channel to an interactive, online community. Information and tasks that were previously limited to select groups are accessible to everyone. For example, you can book your own travel with tools comparable to those used by professional travel agents or analyse financial markets via systems that were previously only available to traders. - January 2008.

Web 2.0 Summit: - http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=72 - IBM evolves vision of SOA and Web 2.0 - Dion Hinchcliffe - November 7th, 2006.

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&eurl= - This is an interesting video presentation about web 2.0.

Web Directions South - http://www.webdirections.org - Sydney Australia, September 26-29th 2006.

Web Directions South - http://www.webdirections.org/javascript-apis/ - JavaScript APIs & Mashups - Cameron Adams and Kevin Yank - Septemper 26 - 29 2006.

Web Forms 2.0 - http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/ - Working Draft - 12 October 2006.

Web Services Webcast Directory - http://searchwebservices.bitpipe.com/webcasts?asrc= - The SearchWebServices Webcast Directory is your guide to informative Web Services technology webcasts provided by a wide range of IT vendors.

What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf - JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) Technology and Standards Watch, Feb. 2007 - Paul Anderson - Within 15 years the Web has grown from a group work tool for scientists at CERN into a global information space with more than a billion users. Currently, it is both returning to its roots as a read/write tool and also entering a new, more social and participatory phase. These trends have led to a feeling that the Web is entering a 'second phase' - a new, 'improved' Web version 2.0. But how justified is this perception?

When hacks attack - Scenta - http://www.scenta.co.uk/home/1701833/when-hacks-attack.htm - Hackday, hundreds of technologists congregate on the capital and build stuff. The event is sponsored by Yahoo! and the BBC, and this pair have the unenviable task of running the show. - Source Guardian.

WIKIMANIA 2007 - http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - August 3-5 2007 Taipei Taiwan - BBC Digital Planet - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4849402.stm - This week the Digital Planet team investigates how Wikis are going mainstream and we hear the latest developments from EGNOS, the European Commission's experimental positioning system - designed to replace GPS. We also look at the methods used by broadband providers to cope with the increased traffic from online TV and video services. - 7 August 2007.

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything - BCS (British Computer Society Book Review http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.20473 - Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams - Wikipedia defines Web 2.0 as the 'trend in the use of World Wide Web Technology... that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services such as social networking, wikis, blogs and folksonomies.' - As an authoritative analysis of virtual collaboration, as well as a textbook on how industry can harness the power of the internet - especially for R&D - go to this book. The basic premise of Wikinomics mirrors the open source movement. Instead of developing (at great expense) a proprietary product and then incurring the overheads of maintaining and enhancing it, throw it open to the world of developers and let the best material surface for everyone's benefit.

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(web_application_hybrid) - Mashup (web application hybrid).

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 - Web 2.0.

Wikipedia founder outlines search plans - Bristish Computer Society (BCS) - Jimmy Wales, the founder of popular online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, has revealed details of his planned search engine service. - 30th July 2007.

Why a Web 2.0 User Interface Matters - Intalio - http://www.intalio.com/news/bpm-20-blog-post/?post=2006/05/29 - Written by Ismael Ghalimi for IT|Redux - This is the twelfth edition of our weekly BPM 2.0 post. Today, I will try to explain why a web 2.0 user interface matters. Like with any other application, the most difficult part in deploying a business process powered by a BPMS of sorts is in getting active support from end users. For the deployment to succeed, the application has to be actually used by end users, and user interfaces play the most critical role in this.

Why We're Like a Million Monkeys on Treadmills - http://www.micropersuasion.com/2007/07/why-were-like-a.html - The Web 2.0 construction boom is bigger now than it ever was. - Monday, July 16, 2007 - Steve Rubel.

XML Journal - http://xml.sys-con.com/ - The World's First and Only Dedicated XML Magazine ! - Web 2.0 Section.

XSLT Blog - M. David Peterson - http://www.xsltblog.com/archives/2005/08/web_10_20_30_ea.html - Web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, +, Each one exists now, so whats all the fuss? - 11th August 2005.

BBC

Backstage.bbc.co.uk - http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/ - Build what you want using BBC content - backstage.bbc.co.uk is the BBC's developer network to encourage innovation and support new talent. Content feeds are available for people to build with on a non-commercial basis.

BBC Business news - Another search party - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5052054.stm - Cambridge Based Search company director Mike Lynch - Peter Day Presenter, BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service - 6 June 2006.

BBC Business - Coming to your screen: DIY TV - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6365389.stm - Nowadays virtually anyone can set up a TV channel and start broadcasting. It's easy and getting cheaper all the time. - By Josie Milani - BBC Money Programme - 15 February 2007.

BBC Business - Facehooked - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7151690.stm - By Ian Rose - The Money Programme - Facebook seemed to come from nowhere to everywhere in 2007.

BBC Business - From Oxford to Silicon Valley - Part 1 - Viewpoint By Kulveer Taggar Chief executive, Auctomatic. - Kulveer Taggar moved to Silicon Valley in California after graduating from Oxford and working as an investment banker. He explains why California is the place for those with entrepreneurial spirits. - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4.

BBC Business - Google to target software market - BBC News - Business - August 25th 2006.

BBC Click - 'Cheating' the search engines - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6526393.stm - 'Cheating' the search engines By Spencer Kelly - 5 April 2007.

BBC Click - Evolution of the social network - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7318288.stm - By Marc Cieslak Reporter, BBC Click - Recent reports of social networking's demise may be slightly premature. - Sure, some users are completely fed up with receiving friends invites, being "bitten", "poked" and indeed having sheep thrown at them. - And there has been a 5% slowdown in new UK users to the larger social networks, Facebook and MySpace, between December 2007 and January this year. - But Alex Burmaster, an analyst at Nielsen Online which compiled the figures showing the decline, says: "The slow down in social networks is being somewhat exaggerated. It's a natural form of any growth that we see in the online eco-system. - 29 March 2008.

BBC Click - Harnessing the power of 'clouds' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7465386.stm - By Spencer Kelly Click presenter - It is not unusual to find the computer you bought only a couple of years ago cannot handle the very latest software, but there could be an answer to the problem so long as you are connected to the internet. - The cloud is the latest buzzword doing the rounds in the tech world. - In essence it is a simple idea. It refers to data and processing power living online rather than in a beige box under a desk. - As we move towards a world where we are all storing more and more media in digital form - documents, photos, music or videos - moving it into the cloud offers unparalleled flexibility. - 20 June 2008 .

BBC Digital Planet - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4849402.stm - BBC Podcast radio programme.

BBC Digital Planet - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4849402.stm - Google is expanding into many fields such as advertising, mapping and television. But recently, the search giant's head of research, Peter Norvig, also talked about plans to educate children. - 11 September 2007.

BBC dot.life blog - Mapping our lives online - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/03/mapping_our_lives_online.html - Darren Waters 31 Mar 08 - Over the weekend blogger and businessman Loic Le Meur started an interesting conversation about social media and the decentralised way in which personal information was being spread. - He drew a handy map to show the different threads of his digital life.

BBC dot.life blog - My so-called digital life - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/05/my_socalled_digital_life.html - Michael Arrington has an interesting post at the top of TechCrunch right now. - He's predicting that Google is going to launch a product called Friend Connect on Monday. - In essence, he says, Friend Connect is "a set of APIs for Open Social participants to pull profile information from social networks into third party websites". - Open Social is a collection of tools shared by web services - from MySpace, to Orkut and to Linked In - that allows interoperability of elements like gadgets and applications. - Friend Connect is different from using tools like RSS to pull in information to a website or profile page because the data portability will be two way. - Darren Waters - 10 May 08.

BBC dot.life blog - MySpace and BBC - friend or foe? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/01/myspace_and_bbc_friend_or_foe.html - Now here's an interesting thing. On the very day we - in BBC News - are running a rather negative story about MySpace and just how difficult it can be to delete your profile, our colleagues at BBC Worldwide have signed a major deal with the biggest social networking site. A good way of proving a) how impartial we are and b) how no two parts of the BBC know what each other is up to. - The deal with MySpace TV is not the first to see BBC content made available for free on outside websites - there are a number of BBC Youtube channels and there's a deal to show programmes on Bebo. - Rory Cellan-Jones - 24 Jan 08.

BBC dot.life blog - Remoulding Microsoft for the web - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/07/remoulding_microsoft_for_the_w.html - Darren Waters 29 Jul 08, What is Microsoft for? I ask the question, because I think it's one that the company has been asking itself a lot recently. - Is it a software company? Producing an operating system, and tools like Office. - Or is it a hardware company? Producing games consoles and peripherals. - Perhaps it's a web company? Producing an online ecosystem, such as Live Mesh. - Or is it a server company? Producing Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS). - The answer, according to Microsoft, is all four. - 29 Jul 08.

BBC dot.life blog - Talking To Sir Tim - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/03/talking_to_sir_tim.html - Rory Cellan-Jones 17 Mar 08 - He's the greatest technological pioneer Britain has produced over the last 30 years - and Sir Tim Berners-Lee has been rewarded with all kinds of honours, from his knighthood, to the Millennium Technology Prize, to Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. What he is not is the most fluent of interviewees - so I was rather worried about our encounter the other day. I need not have been.

BBC dot.life blog - Web 2.0 for all? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/01/web_20_for_all.html - A blog about technology from BBC News - Darren Waters 17 Jan 08 - I've just been at a very interesting talk given by Rod Smith and David Boloker, from IBM's Emerging Tech labs, to BBC development staff and they made it very clear that a lot of work around standards for Web 2.0 work has yet to properly started, let alone finished. - Why does this matter? - Well, we live in a cut and paste digital world. For example - we all take it for granted that a piece of text that you copy in one web page, for example, can be pasted into a Word document, or a text-entry box on a website. - But in the Web 2.0 world it is not so simple. Standards are needed so that data from one website can be moved into another, added to a third site and then spat out the other end. It is what makes the Web 2.0 world so exciting. - Some of this work has happened. Things like RSS feeds, XML etc have made it simpler for computers to share complicated bits of data. But it hasn't gone far enough and it's not just data.

BBC dot.life blog - What is Web Science - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/03/what_is_web_science.html - Rory Cellan-Jones 11 Mar 08 - A blog about technology from BBC News - In the august surroundings of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences, in a lecture theatre decorated with 18th Century paintings, a crowd gathered on Tuesday morning to celebrate the birth of a new science. - It's called Web Science, and is an attempt to start understanding and exploring the ever growing phenomenon of the world wide web. Who better, then, to be the main speaker at today’s event than Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web?.

BBC Education - Bank's U-turn on student charges - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6970570.stm - A student campaign using the social networking website Facebook has forced an international bank into a U-turn over charges. - By Sean Coughlan - Education reporter, BBC News - 30 August 2007.

BBC Education - Students' Facebook bank protest - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6966550.stm - A student protest against higher bank charges, organised on the Facebook website, is threatening to embarrass the HSBC bank into reversing its plans. - 28 August 2007.

BBC Magazine - 10 excuses for using Facebook at work - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2007/08/excuses_for_using_facebook_at.shtml - Could you justify using Facebook to your boss? Here are some suggestions from our Facebook fan club. - 31 August 2007.

BBC Magazine - A library bigger than any building - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6924022.stm - An ambitious project to create an online catalogue of every book in every language ever published is under way. Public goodwill is not in doubt, but some libraries remain to be convinced. - By Giles Turnbull - 31 July 2007.

BBC Magazine - If your face fits - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5109160.stm - An online social network is sweeping the most famous universities. Is the Facebook website going to create the digital equivalent of the old school tie?. 27 June 2006.

BBC Magazine - New frontiers in journalism - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6240878.stm - By Ben Hammersley In Istanbul - News is entering a new phase. TV, radio and the web no longer stand alone as separate channels, but are converging in a complex interplay of social media. Over the coming days, the BBC is offering a glimpse of how it could be delivered in the future. - 27 June 2007.

BBC Newsnight - Internet Part II: Return of the geeks? - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4382626.stm - Paul Mason - 27 October 2005.

BBC Radio 1 - Newsbeat - http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_7462000/7462187.stm - By Jim Reed Newsbeat technology reporter - The founder of MySpace has told Newsbeat that a major revamp of the site is needed to make it less intimidating for new members. - MySpace has now launched the first stage of a clean up operation designed to attract more casual users and increase the amount of time people spend online. - Changes cover the site's home page, navigation, search and video functions. - MySpace president Tom Anderson said: "We've tried to simplify the site because some people found it too difficult to use and were intimidated by it. - 19 June 2008.

BBC Radio 1 - Newsbeat - http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_7452000/7452715.stm - By Jim Reed Newsbeat technology reporter - MySpace is preparing a major redesign next week as it tries to attract more casual users and increase the amount of time its members spend online. - Most of the changes will go live on 18 June and cover the site's home page, navigation, editing, search and video functions. - Managing director of MySpace UK, Antony Lukom, said designers have been working on the project for more than a year. - "We wanted to make it easier and more intuitive to use," he said. - 13 June 2008.

BBC Radio 4 - Caught in the Web - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness_20070614.shtml - Are you sick of wrestling with recalcitrant pieces of software installed on your computer? - In Business this week looks at whether it makes sense to use programmes on the internet instead. The idea is that your keyboard and your mouse and an Internet connection are all you need to turn on the services you need like tap water. Much of the software is free or cheap. - 14 June 2007.

BBC Radio 4 - Click On - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/clickon/ - Whether you've embraced technology willingly, or you're someone who struggles to find the 'on' switch on a PC, this series will have something for you. Rajesh Mirchandani finds out how modern technology touches people's lives in this lively magazine programme.

BBC Radio 4 - Euro Everything - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness_20060518.shtml - Radio 4 Broadcast - In Business - Peter Day - 18 May 2006.

BBC Radio 4 - IN BUSINESS - All Join In - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness_20080117.shtml - Social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Bebo and YouTube are revolutionising the way people use the internet. Peter Day finds how businesses need to respond. - 17 January 2008.

BBC Radio 4 - IN BUSINESS - Bring on the Bandwidth - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness.shtml - An ever expanding Internet needs more and more bandwidth to provide the on demand services that users are demanding. But can the system cope? Peter Day asks the experts, including the writer George Gilder who has been predicting what is now happening for 20 years or more. - 4 September 2008.

BBC Radio 4 - Meeting the bloggers face to face - BBC Radio 4 - Mark Savage 25th August 2006.

BBC Radio 4 - New Wave Computing - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness_20070111.shtml - Peter Day talks to some of the rising stars of the new revolution and finds out how the computer industry is changing yet again 11th January 2007.

BBC Radio 4 - Material World - Encyclopedia Of Life - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20070517.shtml - As the tercentenary of the Swedish botanist, and father of taxonomy, Carolus Linnaeus approaches, a global consortium has promised to catalogue all 1.2 million known living species on an online Encyclopaedia of Life - 17 May 2007.

BBC Radio 4 - Power and the Web - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/poweroftheweb.shtml - Matthew d'Ancona asks whether the World Wide Web has the potential to reshape society, just as the printing press did more than five centuries ago.

BBC Radio 4 - Searching Questions - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/analysis/5222356.stm - Analysis - The dream is powerful: the world's information at everyone's fingertips. - 27 July 2006.

BBC Radio 4 - Tangled Web - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness_20060615.shtml - Radio 4 Broadcast - In Business - Peter Day - Six years after the dot-com bubble burst companies are falling over themselves to get involved with the next big thing on the internet. They call it Web 2.0. - 15 June 2006.

BBC Radio 4 - The Wikipedia Story - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/psiwo/ - Radio 4 Broadcast - Tuesday 25 December 2007 22:15-22:45 and Tuesday 24 July 2007 11:30-12:00 - Clive Anderson looks at one of the world's fastest growing websites, the online encyclopedia to which anybody can contribute. Is Wikipedia a valuable source of human knowledge or a symptom of the spread of mediocrity and the devaluation of research?.

BBC Radio 4 - Today - Vint Cerf interview - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/ - Vint Cerf, one of the internet's founding fathers, ponders the future of the World Wide Web and discusses online censorship. - 29 August 2007.

BBC Technology news - Adobe challenges word on the web - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7021630.stm - Adobe has joined a growing list of firms offering web-based alternatives to conventional office programs. - 1st October 2007.

BBC Technology news - A journey to the net's silver side - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7073582.stm - The BBC's technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jones, goes undercover to find out what life is like for silver surfers in the newly launched SagaZone. - Rory Cellan-Jones - Technology correspondent, BBC News.

BBC Technology News - A trip back to the future in 2007 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7155893.stm - Regular commentator Bill Thompson reflects on an eventful year and the long history of computing that helped to shape it. 24 December 2007.

BBC Technology News - Adobe fuses on and offline worlds - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7254436.stm - Adobe has launched software designed to make it easier for computer users to use online applications offline. - Adobe Air allows developers to build tools that still have some functionality even when a computer is no longer connected to the net. - 25 February 2008.

BBC Technology News - Adobe launches Acrobat community - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7430938.stm - Adobe has made a move into online document sharing with the launch of the Acrobat.com community site. - It allows people to create, store and share documents online, and hold web conferences to discuss changes. - It was unveiled at the same time as the new version of Adobe's Acrobat software in which Flash video can now be embedded. - The service pits Adobe squarely against Microsoft, Google and others keen to bridge the online and offline worlds. - 2 June 2008.

BBC Technology news - Alliances key for search giants - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6197543.stm - 29 December 2006.

BBC Technology news - Art degree show on Second Life - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6609333.stm - Art students at a London university are to stage their degree show in the virtual, online world of Second Life. 1st May 2007.

BBC Technology news - Battle to keep the internet open - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6902997.stm - The battle for an open network is never-ending, argues Bill Thompson - 17 July 2007.

BBC Technology news - BBC online video service launches - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6916164.stm - The BBC's flagship online TV service is being launched, offering viewers the chance to download their favourite programmes from the last seven days. 27 July 2007.

BBC Technology news - Blogging 'set to peak next year' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6178611.stm - 14 December 2006.

BBC Technology news - Blooker prize honours best blogs - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6446271.stm - 13 March 2007.

BBC Technology news - Bluetooth helps Facebook friends - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6949473.stm - A team of UK researchers is combining the power of social network Facebook with communications tool Bluetooth to learn more about human interactions. - 16 August 2007.

BBC Technology news - Braille converter eases web use - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6542441.stm - Geoff Adams-Spink - A free service that provides automatic Braille conversion is proving popular despite still being in test phase. - 12 April 2007.

BBC Technology news - Browsers go head-to-head - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6086798.stm - The top two browsing programs of net users got a big update this month as Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and Mozilla unleashed Firefox 2.0. Here we take a quick spin through some of the features to be seen in the new versions - Mark Ward - 26 October 2006.

BBC Technology news - BT set to study internet novices - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6979849.stm - BT is setting up an initiative to find out why some people resist using the internet. - 14 September 2007.

BBC Technology news - Call for web to stay open for all - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7493859.stm - Governments, scientists and businesses must do more to ensure the web stays open for all, says Sir Tim Berners-Lee. - The web pioneer made the call while announcing a partnership between the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI) and the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA). - The WSRI is studying how the web is growing and is seeking ways to make the most of its potential. - 7 July 2008 - What is the future of the internet? - http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7496000/7496976.stm - The pioneer of the world wide web is now looking ahead to a new and more sophisticated way of using the internet known as the semantic web. Sir Tim Berners-Lee explains. - 9th July 2008.

BBC Technology news - Call to open up public data use - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6733619.stm - Government must do more to embrace Web 2.0 tools and communities, says a report. - Commissioned by the Cabinet Office, the report looks at the novel ways the web helps people use information and how government can get involved - 8 June 2007.

BBC Technology news - Call to regulate the net rejected - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6968322.stm - The internet should not be used as a scapegoat for society's ills, said Vint Cerf, Google's net evangelist and a founding father of the network. - 29 August 2007.

BBC Technology news - Cash reward for Facebook programs - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7000403.stm - Software developers will be offered up to $250,000 (£125,000) to develop applications for popular social network Facebook, the site's founder has said. - 18 September 2007.

BBC Technology news - Changing the way we think - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7459182.stm - Bill Thompson considers how our multi-media world is impacted the way we see ourselves. - In her recently published book ID: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century, Professor Susan Greenfield brings her considerable expertise as a neuroscientist to bear on the question of whether and how our current use of computers is changing the way our brains work. - Greenfield argues that the visual stimulus we get from screen-based information and entertainment differs so markedly from that available to previous generations that certain areas of the brain, specifically those areas that are older in evolutionary terms and retain the capacity to alter as a result of experience, may be affected in ways that express themselves a changes to personality and behaviour. - It's an interesting hypothesis, and one that has the virtue of being experimentally testable, unlike many other claims about the effect of modern living on human psychology. - 17 June 2008.

BBC Technology news - CIA 'launches Facebook for spies' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6957828.stm - The CIA is to open a communications tool for its staff, modelled on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, the Financial Times reports. - 21 August 2007.

BBC Technology news - Cloudy visions of the future - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7161260.stm - Regular commentator Bill Thompson looks forward to cheap net access and cloud computing. - 31 December 2007.

BBC Technology news - Community websites take wiki path - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6171399.stm - 12th December 2006.

BBC Technology news - Companies urged: 'let your staff blog' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6526947.stm - 4 April 2007.

BBC Technology news - Developers question Mesh openness - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7362144.stm - By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, San Francisco - Developers have questioned the commitment to openness in Microsoft's Live Mesh service, which is designed to bridge the offline and online worlds. - The company's new service, that will synch all of a user's devices and applications to produce a seamless framework, was unveiled at Web 2.0. - Microsoft has said the service will use open standards and be rolled out to Windows machines, Macs and mobiles.- But developers at the conference said they needed more detail about openness. - 24 April 2007.

BBC Technology news - Digital divide grows with web use - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6913918.stm - By Steve Schifferes - Business reporter, BBC News - Young people are using the internet in very different ways - The digital divide in Britain is still pronounced despite growing intensity of internet use, a survey has suggested. - 25 July 2007.

BBC Technology news - Digital neighbourhood watch plan - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6364301.stm - 15 February 2007 - A neighbourhood watch for the digital age, utilising the power of social networking, has been proposed.

BBC Technology news - Don't be lonely at Christmas time - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7140599.stm - Social networking sites could eventually eliminate entirely the need for the offline socialising that has become the cornerstone of the festive season. - 24 December 2007.

BBC Technology news - DVD DRM row sparks user rebellion - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6615047.stm - Attempts to gag the blogosphere from publishing details of a DVD crack have led to a user revolt. 2 May 2007.

BBC Technology news - Europe can 'lead web technology' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7139175.stm - By Ewan Spence, in Paris Europe remains a vibrant centre for web technology development, a conference in Paris is hearing. - 12 December 2007.

BBC Technology news - Facebook imposes site facelift - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7609555.stm - By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley - Facebook's facelift will become permanent for all its 100 million users, like it or not. - Since unveiling the makeover seven weeks ago, Facebook had given users the freedom to stay with the old design or switch to the new one. - Now everyone will be forced to change despite groups forming on Facebook to protest against the move. - 11 September 2007.

BBC Technology news - Facebook opens profiles to public - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6980454.stm - Popular social networking site Facebook has added a public-facing search function in a move which is likely to anger privacy advocates. - 6 September 2007.

BBC Technology news - Facebook set for major facelift - http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_7408000/7408215.stm - By Jim Reed Newsbeat technology reporter - If you are getting fed up of all the vampires, booze mail and super wall posts, then help could be on the way. - The social network site Facebook is getting ready for the first major makeover in its short history. - Designers are planning some widespread changes to the way the core profile page is organised, aimed at making it "simpler, cleaner and more relevant". - The site is consulting its users on the changes ahead of a gradual role out starting next month. - 19 May 2008.

BBC Technology news - Facebook to police site add-ons - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7522691.stm - By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, San Francisco - Social networking site Facebook is introducing a ranking system for good and bad application developers. - Announced at F8, the Facebook developers conference in San Francisco, it aims to improve the quality of applications on offer. - Dubbed Application Verification it will promote "secure, respectful and transparent" add-ons to the site. - 24 July 2008.

BBC Technology news - Facing up to Facebook fears - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6639417.stm - Internet law professor Michael Geist says attempts to block social media sites such as Facebook are misguided. - 9 May 2007.

BBC Technology news - Finding myself through online identities - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6654337.stm - 14 May 2007 - Today's online services give us new ways to decide who we are, says Bill Thompson.

BBC Technology news - Firefox browser for web 2.0 age - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6078016.stm - 24 October 2006.

BBC Technology news - Firms 'miss' social site success - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7501073.stm - By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley - Businesses are missing out on the huge potential that social networks present, a leading information technology company has warned. - Researchers for Gartner found that huge opportunities for improving the management of large firms exist. - "Businesses which harness how employees use these sites stand to increase savings, productivity and profits," said Gartner researcher Jeffrey Mann. - 11 July 2008.

BBC Technology news - Follow my silicon Valley Trip - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2007/03/follow_my_silicon_valley_trip_1.shtml - Darren Waters 8 Mar 07 - AM We're trying something new on the blog - a Google map, Flickr mash-up.

BBC Technology news - For want of a file, the net was lost - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6263501.stm - Bill Thompson - 15 January 2007.

BBC Technology news - Free tool offers 'easy' coding - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6647011.stm - A free programming tool that allows anyone to create their own animated stories, video games and interactive artworks has been developed - Jonathan Fildes - 14 May 2007.

BBC Technology news - From here to cyberspace - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6764751.stm - Social networking sites are growing up and becoming much more than glorified address books, says Bill Thompson. - Bill Thompson - 19 June 2007.

BBC Technology news - Game worlds show their human side - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6917924.stm - World of Warcraft and Second Life are proving a boon to social scientists who are using them as virtual laboratories. - 27 July 2007.

BBC Technology news - Global web celebrations under way - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5368190.stm - 22 September 2006.

BBC Technology news - Google acts to organise your life - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4905904.stm - Google has launched its latest salvo against rivals such as Yahoo and Microsoft, unveiling a free online calendar service. - 13 April 2006.

BBC Technology news - Google charges for web programs - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6385487.stm - Google has introduced a paid-for version of its web applications it hopes will be popular with small firms. - 22 February 2007.

BBC Technology news - Google debuts knowledge project - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7144970.stm - Google has kicked off a project to create an authoritative store of information about any and every topic. - 15 December 2007.

BBC Technology news - Google Earth given celestial view - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6955787.stm - The constellations of Andromeda, Hydra and Vulpecula are now just a mouse click away for amateur star-gazers, following the launch of Google Sky - By Jonathan Fildes Science and technology reporter, BBC News - 22 August 2007.

BBC Technology news - Google Earth turns spotlight on Darfur - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6543185.stm - Laura Smith-Spark - 11 April 2007.

BBC Technology news - Google helps terabyte data swaps - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6425975.stm - Google is developing a program to help academics around the world exchange huge amounts of data. - 7 March 2007.

BBC Technology news - Google helps the web to go social - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7397470.stm - By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley - Google has joined the drive to make the web more social by introducing tools to enable people to interact with their friends. - Friend Connect follows plans announced last week by the world's two biggest social networking sites, MySpace and Facebook. - Data Availability and Connect let users move their personal profiles and applications to other websites. - 13 May 2008.

BBC Technology news - Google, IBM back 'cloud students' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7034498.stm - Google and IBM are partnering on an effort to help students get to grips with net-scale computing projects. - 9 October 2007.

BBC Technology news - Google launches internet browser - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7593106.stm - Google is launching an open source web browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox. - The browser is designed to be fast, and to cope with the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia. - Called Chrome, it will launch as a beta for Windows machines in 100 countries, with Mac and Linux versions to come. - 2 September 2008. - Google's new web browser - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7594808.stm - Google is launching an open source web browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox. - The browser is designed to be fast, and to cope with the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia. - Called Chrome, it is launching as a beta for Windows machines in 100 countries, with Mac and Linux versions to come. - Google's Jessica Powell takes Rory Cellan-Jones through Chrome's new features. - 2 September 2008.

BBC Technology news - Google launches web spreadsheet - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5051610.stm - BBC Technology News/Business News - 6 June 2006.

BBC Technology news - Google looks to the next 10 years - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7599342.stm - By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley - As Google prepares to celebrate its tenth anniversary the company has an eye on its future and declared that for web users "the best is yet to come." - "Internet search has just gotten started," Marissa Mayer, Google's head of search products, told the BBC. - "The best search engine would be your friend, with a photographic memory about you and know what you know. - "It would have access to the world of information and retrieve facts from anywhere in the context of what you know already." - 4 September 2008.

BBC Technology news - Google offers personal searches - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6079824.stm - A bespoke search engine that can be included on people's websites or blogs is the latest offering from Google - 24 October 2006.

BBC Technology news - Google opens up social networking - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7070815.stm - Google has launched a system that will allow developers to create applications for a variety of social networks. - 31 October 2007.

BBC Technology news - Google overhauls main search page - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6664843.stm - Google is overhauling its search system so it returns "universal" results not just those from webpages. The change means users will also get results from news sites, blogs, video services and other relevant places. - 17 May 2007.

BBC Technology news - Google reaches out to developers - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7425209.stm - By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, San Francisco - For Google the future is about beefing up the browser and its bottom line. - This honest explanation of what motivates the search giant was given at Google IO, its developers conference being held in San Francisco. - 29 May 2008.

BBC Technology news - Google Street View gets go ahead - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7534755.stm - Google's controversial Street View photo-mapping tool has been given the all clear by the UK's privacy watchdog. - The system takes pictures of streets and adds them to online maps to let people see what locations look like. - The project drew criticism from privacy campaigners worried it could breach data protection laws. - But the Information Commissioner said it was "satisfied" that Google had put in place safeguards to avoid risking anyone's privacy or safety. - 31 July 2008.

BBC Technology news - Google's e-mail for universities - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6741797.stm - Google is expanding its empire into universities - with entire campus e-mail networks switching over to using Google's e-mail service. - Sean Coughlan - 11 June 2007.

BBC Technology news - Google's online empire - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5132806.stm - 3 July 2006.

BBC Technology news - Government websites 'too complex' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6896614.stm - Many government websites are still too complicated and difficult to use, says the National Audit Office. - 12 July 2007.

BBC Technology news - Hackers meet for coding festival - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6757361.stm - Web developers are gathering in London for the first BBC/Yahoo hackday. 16 June 2007 - Hackday07 Photos and Audio - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/podsandblogs/2007/06/hackday07_photos_and_audio.shtml - Chris Vallance 20 Jun 07.

BBC Technology News - Have Your Say map: Broadband speed test - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/7426337.stm - The map below shows results from a broadband speed test on the BBC News Website.

BBC Technology news - Here comes the creator economy - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6280489.stm - In the same way that double-decker buses used to materialise out of the dimness of the London smog, shape and substance is being added to the affirmations made - back in the Web 1.0 era - that the internet was only the beginning of great big change. - Peter Day - 22 January 2007.

BBC Technology news - Hi-tech tools divide social sites - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7144143.stm - Social network sites are moving to make it much easier for software developers to write add-ons for the hugely popular web destinations. - 14 December 2007.

BBC Technology news - Hi-tech ways to stay in touch - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7082566.stm - The technologies families can use to stay in touch are as diverse as those family groups themselves. Here the BBC News website gives a run-down on some of the technologies that the most modern of families are putting to good use. - 7 November 2007.

BBC Technology news - Howard row over Wikipedia edits - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6961575.stm - Staff in the Australian prime minister's department have been accused of editing potentially damaging entries in online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. 24 August 2007.

BBC Technology news - How to help users help themselves - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6270593.stm - Internet law professor Michael Geist describes how governments can help their citizens make the most of the web. Professor Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa - 17 January 2007.

BBC Technology news - IBM serves up new innovations - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6499461.stm - Computing giant IBM has made a dramatic shift in recent times from hardware to software - and has been seeking to show off its proficiency in the virtual world of Second Life. 28 March 2007.

BBC Technology news - IBM helps blind 'see' web video - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6507189.stm - Technology giant, IBM, is soon to launch a multimedia browser to make audio and video content accessible to people with vision impairments. By Geoff Adams-Spink Age & disability correspondent, BBC News website 30 March 2007.

BBC Technology news - Inside the Silicon Valley tech bubble - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6494739.stm - Silicon Valley and the Bay Area around San Francisco have long been a crucible for technology innovation - Darren Waters - 26 March 2007.

BBC Technology news - Learning to love Web 2.0 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4842498.stm - Bill Thompson - 27 March 2006.

BBC Technology news - Learning what makes Facebook tick - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7357934.stm - By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, in San Francisco - A group of students at Stanford University in the heart of Silicon Valley have turned their attention towards a unique course that blends popular culture with the more time-worn principles of psychology. - The Psychology of Facebook is the brainchild of Professor B J Fogg, a pioneering persuasion psychologist who founded the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford. - 21 April 2008.

BBC Technology news - Let staff use network sites - TUC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6969791.stm - Employees should have access to social networking websites such as Facebook during office hours, the TUC has said. - 30 August 2007.

BBC Technology news - Looking back after half a decade - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6973069.stm - Regular columnist Bill Thompson looks back at the last five years of his columns for the BBC News website. - 31 August 2007.

BBC Technology news - Luminaries look to the future web - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7373717.stm - Exactly 15 years ago the directors at the lab where the web was first developed signed a document which said the technology could be used by anyone free of charge. - That decision was instrumental in making the web truly world wide. BBC News talks to some of the leading figures in the web community about their hopes for the future of the web. - 30 April 2008.

BBC Technology news - Making plans for the web's future - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6678097.stm - Microsoft's Silverlight software is starting to get some attention and here the BBC News website explains why the technology is important. Mark Ward - 23 May 2007.

BBC Technology news - Meet the digital biographer - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6900376.stm - Imagine a man whose entire life revolves around social networking. - By Rory Cellan-Jones - Technology Correspondent, BBC News - 16 July 2007.

BBC Technology news - Microsoft debuts book search tool - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6213260.stm - 6 December 2006.

BBC Technology news - Microsoft goes on web offensive - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6156338.stm - Microsoft has unveiled details of free web-based software for small UK firms as it bids to compete with applications from rivals such as Google - 16 November 2006.

BBC Technology news - Microsoft may offer web programs - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5370144.stm - 22 September 2006.

BBC Technology news - Microsoft tries free office suite - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6927491.stm - Free copies of some of Microsoft's office software will soon be available. - 2 August 2007.

BBC Technology news - Microsoft unveils its web vision - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7362361.stm - Microsoft has lifted the lid on a new web service called Live Mesh, designed to connect a multiplicity of devices and applications online. - The service is seen by many as a key plank in the company's vision for the future of the web. - Live Mesh is designed to blur the lines between running software and storing data on a desktop and "in the cloud". - 23 April 2008.

BBC Technology news - Mobile talk moves to Web 2.0 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6389469.stm - With a growing demand for a better browsing experience on our mobiles, there is, according to the industry, demand for Web 2.0 on the go. - Spencer Kelly Click presenter - 23 February 2007.

BBC Technology news - MySpace founder looks to the future - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6752067.stm - Rory Cellan-Jones - Technology correspondent, BBC News - 14 June 2007.

BBC Technology news - MySpace lets users share data - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7391405.stm - Maggie Shiels BBC technology reporter Silicon Valley - The world's most popular social networking site MySpace is to allow users to make their information available to other websites. - Its "data availability" project will let members share public profile information with Yahoo, Twitter, eBay and Photobucket. - In the past sites like MySpace have locked users into their own site and jealously guarded member's content. - 9 May 2008.

BBC Technology news - MySpace opens door to developers - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7050443.stm - Social network MySpace is to allow third-party developers to build applications for the site. - 18 October 2007.

BBC Technology news - MySpace opens doors to developers - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7217975.stm - MySpace will open its doors to software developers allowing them to create games and media-sharing applications for the popular social network. - MySpace will formally launch its "Developer Platform" next Tuesday but is already allowing people to sign up. - 30 January 2008.

BBC Technology news - MySpace 'passes 10m UK users' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6288120.stm - Social network MySpace has said more than 10m UK users look at its website each month, making it the most popular social network in the country. 10 July 2007.

BBC Technology news - MySpace signs up to OpenID scheme - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7521002.stm - MySpace members will soon be able to use their login details to get access to some other websites. - The social networking giant, which boasts more than 100 million accounts, has signed up for the OpenID initiative. - The project aims to ease the mental load of going online by letting people use one set of login details for many different places. - Sites such as AOL, Blogger, Flickr and Yahoo already use OpenID. - 23 July 2008.

BBC Technology news - Nasa and Google form cosmic union - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6192523.stm - Detailed 3D images of the Moon and Mars will soon be just a click away for web users, following a deal between search giant Google and US space agency Nasa. - BBC News Technology - 19th December 2006.

BBC Technology news - Nasa investigates virtual space - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7195718.stm - The US space agency is exploring the possibility of developing a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game. - The virtual world would be aimed at students and would "simulate real Nasa engineering and science missions". - BBC News Technology - 18 January 2008. - NASA MMO - massively multiplayer online learning game - http://ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/mmo/ - NASA Learning Technologies Request for Information: Development of a NASA-based massively multiplayer online learning game - The NASA Learning Technologies (LT) project supports the development of projects that deliver NASA content through innovative applications of technologies to enhance education in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

BBC Technology news - Net giants test web health - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7058498.stm - Google and Microsoft are set to go head to head in the lucrative consumer healthcare market. - By Cristina Jimenez - 24 October 2007.

BBC Technology news - New boom-time for British tech? - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6978531.stm - Britain is still home to some of the world's best scientists - but when it comes to giving them the money to turn their ideas into world-beating companies we are third-rate. True? - Rory Cellan-Jones - Technology correspondent, BBC News - 5 September 2007.

BBC Technology news - NZ police let public write laws - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7015024.stm - New Zealanders have been given the chance to write their own laws, with a new online tool launched by police. - 26 September 2007.

BBC Technology news - Online and offline worlds merge - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6708375.stm - Google has launched a tool designed to make it easier for computer users to use online applications offline. - 31 May 2007.

BBC Technology news - Open source search effort starts - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7174587.stm - By Chris Vallance - Reporter, BBC iPM - For many Google has solved the problem of searching the web. But not everyone is happy with the way it works and the results it gives. Here Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikipedia encylopedia, talks to the BBC about his new venture - Wikia Search. - 7 January 2008.

BBC Technology news - Over-50s get networking website - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7070667.stm - An internet social networking site, in the style of Facebook and MySpace, has been launched aimed at people over 50. - 31 October 2007.

BBC Technology news - Personal touch to Google homepage - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6611571.stm - Google is reinventing its homepage to offer users greater scope for personalisation. - BBC News Technology - 1st May 2007.

BBC Technology news - Phone tracker to keep pupils safe - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6608651.stm - A system that tracks students through their mobile phones is among the new technologies being developed to help improve security at America's universities - something increasingly of concern since the tragic events at Virginia Tech in April. - BBC News Technology - 1st May 2007.

BBC Technology news - Photo tool could fix bad images - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6936444.stm - Digital photographers could soon be able to erase unwanted elements in photos by using tools that scan for similar images in online libraries. - By Mark Ward Technology correspondent, BBC News website, San Diego - 8 August 2007.

BBC Technology news - Pull down the walled gardens - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6944653.stm - Internet law professor Michael Geist says the walled gardens of social networks should be pulled down. - 15 August 2007.

BBC Technology news - Pupils lead the way with blogging - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6760189.stm - Pupils from a primary school in East Dunbartonshire are at the forefront of a new digital learning phenomenon. - Catriona Forrest - 18 June 2007.

BBC Technology news - Pursuing needles in digital haystacks - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7024822.stm - Google now accounts for over half of the world's online searches - three quarters in the UK - making the fight for a shred of its market-share a full-time job for rivals. - BBC News Technology - 4 October 2007.

BBC Technology news - Push for open access to research - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6404429.stm - Internet law professor Michael Geist takes a look at a fundamental shift in the way research journals become available to the public - BBC News Technology - 28 February 2007.

BBC Technology News - Questions and answers: Tim Berners-Lee - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7300434.stm - By Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent, BBC News - The creator of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, answers questions about the future of the web, social networking and personal privacy online. - 17 March 2008.

BBC Technology news - Rebooting the Web 2.0 age - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6709665.stm - The future of the web is being debated at Reboot 9.0, a leading European grassroots technology and design conference in Copenhagen. Jem Stone - Executive producer portfolio, BBC Future Media and Technology - 1 June 2007.

BBC Technology news - Reporter's log: British innovation week - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6978586.stm - The UK has a long history of innovation and ideas. - But a quick scan of today's tech titans, such as Google, Microsoft and Apple, reveals few that originate in the UK. - The Growing a Big Gorilla conference in Cambridge is hoping to help redress the balance. - BBC News website technology reporter Jonathan Fildes and BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones are reporting from the meeting as it happens. - 5 September 2007.

BBC Technology news - Scientists compile 'book of life' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6638017.stm - BBC Science News - Long-snouted aardvarks will rub shoulders with skunk-like zorillas in an ambitious plan to provide a virtual snapshot of life on Earth. - 9 May 2007

BBC Technology news - Search site aims to rival Google - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7528503.stm - Former workers at the web giant Google have launched a rival search engine. - Called Cuil, from the Gaelic for knowledge and hazel, its founders claim it does a better and more comprehensive job of indexing information online. - The technology it uses to index the web can understand the context surrounding each page and the concepts driving search requests, say the founders. - But analysts believe the new search engine, like many others, will struggle to match and defeat Google. - 28 July 2008.

BBC Technology news - Should you get paid to Facebook? - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7153637.stm - Stephanie Busari BBC News - Social networking websites like Facebook and MySpace have been among the most successful business ventures of recent years. - 21 December 2007.

BBC Technology news - Social net offers new perspective - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6989327.stm - Columnist Bill Thompson asks whether social networking could underpin a new politics of connection. - 11 September 2007.

BBC Technology news - Social networking on the move - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6767593.stm - Online social networks already allow users to share photos, videos and update friends on everything they do. Now a new generation of sites is going a step further, using satellite positioning to track users' whereabouts. - Iain Mackenzie - Technology reporter, 19 June 2007.

BBC Technology news - Social site Facebook buys Parakey - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6907895.stm - Social networking site Facebook has bought internet start-up, Parakey, run by two of the co-creators of the popular web browser, Mozilla Firefox. - 20 July 2007.

BBC Technology news - Social sites battle for new users - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6249520.stm - Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent, BBC News - MySpace is running out of breath, while Bebo and Facebook are fast catching up. That's the message from the latest figures on social networking in Britain. - 28 June 2007.

BBC Technology news - Social sites reveal class divide - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6236628.stm - Fans of MySpace and Facebook are divided by much more than which music they like, suggests a study. - 25 June 2007.

BBC Technology news - Solving the web's image problem - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7395751.stm - By Angela Saini BBC News - Every year, video game enthusiasts fritter away billions of hours in fruitless fun, earning little more than sore thumbs and a sense of satisfaction. - But to Luis von Ahn they represent an opportunity not to be missed. - The computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh developed a game in 2003 that uses gamers to actively improve the web. - 14 May 2008.

BBC Technology news - Sounds bring Google Earth to life - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6639977.stm - As well as homing in on visual feasts around the globe, users of Google Earth may soon be able to listen to the sounds that accompany them. - BBC News Technology - 10 May 2007.

BBC Technology news - Spin around Google's decade - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7599277.stm - Video - A trip via Google Earth around the highlights and low points of the world's most popular search engine. - 4 September 2008.

BBC Technology news - Spreading the wiki footprint - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7519830.stm - Egypt's second largest city Alexandria, has just played host to the annual meeting of the Wikimedia foundation, the non-profit organisation that is responsible for the phenomenon that is Wikipedia. - One of the main aims of this event is to increase the number of articles available in Arabic. - Mohamed Ibrahim, a recent architecture graduate from Alexandria University, pushed hard for Wikimania 2008 to be held in Egypt. - 23 July 2008.

BBC Technology news - Stargazing Google heads for Mars - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4804708.stm - Google has expanded its online mapping services, offering ordinary users the chance to explore the surface of an alien planet for the very first time. - BBC News Technology - 14 March 2006.

BBC Technology news - Stark warning for internet's future - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7364901.stm - By Darren Waters - Technology editor, BBC News website - With the second billion of the planet's citizens due to go online in the next 10 years and an avalanche of online-enabled devices hitting the market with each passing year it would be understandable to assume that the internet is in a healthy position. - The 1960s vision of a network of networks has grown into a tool that encircles the globe, drives economies and connects citizens. - But Professor Jonathan Zittrain, one of the world's leading academics on the impact of the net, is warning that the future is potentially bleak. - 24 April 2008.

BBC Technology news - Students assessed with Wikipedia - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6422877.stm - Students at a UK university are working on the Wikipedia online encyclopedia as part of their degree course. - 7 March 2007.

BBC Technology news - Students 'should use Wikipedia' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7130325.stm - Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said teachers who refuse students access to the site are "bad educators". - By Alistair Coleman - BBC Monitoring - 7 December 2007.

BBC Technology news - Tagging 'takes off for web users' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6318531.stm - Tagging or labelling online content is becoming the new search tool of choice among web users, shows research. - 1 February 2007

BBC Technology news - Teach-yourself game design site - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7189694.stm - A new social networking site in the US has been launched with the aim of helping disadvantaged young people by teaching them how to be game designers. - 15 January 2008.

BBC Technology news - Tech guru O'Reilly on Web 2.0 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4414550.stm - Bill Thompson, Tim O'Reilly.

BBC Technology news - Technologies on the rise in 2008 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7147804.stm - A number of technologies have exploded throughout 2007, from Facebook and the iPhone to the Nintendo Wii. - 1 January 2008.

BBC Technology news - The evolution of a giant - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6616127.stm - Microsoft is showing signs that it is willing to evolve but it needs to do much more to survive in the networked age, argues Bill Thompson. 2 May 2007.

BBC Technology news - The evolution of the web - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5338248.stm - Jon Leleu Producer, BBC Breakfast - 12 September 2006.

BBC Technology news - The evolution of the web - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6708491.stm - David Reid - Reporter, BBC Click - The term Web 2.0 was dreamed up to describe community-driven phenomena such as blogs and wikis and the enormously priced businesses they inspired. 1 June 2007.

BBC Technology news - The hi-tech high points of 2006 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6202947.stm - Bill Thompson - 29 December 2006.

BBC Technology news - The importance of being there - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7507797.stm - The virtual world still needs a lot of work if it is to replace the real world says regular columnist Bill Thompson. - 15 July 2008.

BBC Technology news - The mash-up future of the web - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6375525.stm - Bill Thompson - 19 February 2007.

BBC Technology news - The new wave of Silicon Valley start-ups - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6929569.stm - Spencer Kelly - Click presenter - Silicon Valley is the southern part of San Francisco's Bay Area, stretching from the city to San Jose. This is one of the top research and development centres in the world; wherever you look someone is having a good idea. - 3 August 2007.

BBC Technology news - The Tech Lab: Bradley Horowitz - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6252716.stm - Bradley Horowitz, responsible for novel technology development at search giant Yahoo, looks ahead to the "internet of things". - 29 June 2007.

BBC Technology news - The Tech Lab: Dave Winer - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6748103.stm - Dave Winer, considered by many to be the father of blogging and a pioneer of RSS feeds, offers his personal view on technologies he would like to see in existence one day. - 14 June 2007.

BBC Technology news - The Tech Lab: Niklas Zennstrom - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6729509.stm - In the first of a new series in which the world's leading thinkers outline their personal vision of where technology could be leading us, the co-founder of net telephony service Skype, Niklas Zennstrom explains how the collaborative aspect of the internet will shape the technologies of the future. - 8 June 2007.

BBC Technology news - The Tech Lab: Vint Cerf - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6960896.stm - Vint Cerf, is known as one of the founder fathers of the internet, and played a key role in the development of the protocols which underpin the global net. He was a founding member of the Internet Society and is Google's Chief Internet Evangelist. - 8 June 2007.

BBC Technology news - The technology with impact 2007 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7153642.stm - The last 12 months have seen plenty of talking points around technology - from the iPhone, to Facebook, the launch of Vista and the XO laptop - but what were the developments, stories or gadgets which had the biggest impact? - 27 December 2007.

BBC Technology news - The web's future is a 'village' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7562475.stm - By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley - Despite the desire to have the world of information at our fingertips and a social networking page that boasts of hundreds of so-called "friends", the reality is very different. - Researchers at Hewlett Packard have found that, in truth, we really only bother about a handful of friends and generally visit a small number of websites. - Bernardo Huberman, a senior fellow at HP labs has called this a return to the "dawn of the age of intimacy" following in-depth research into the intersection of social behaviour and technology. - Over the last six months he and his fellow researchers have focused on what people do when information becomes more available, cheap and valueless. - 9 September 2008.

BBC Technology news - Transforming the world of online maps - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6229534.stm - David Reid - Reporter, BBC Click - Maps have been helping us get from A to B for hundreds of years, but their 2D, "flat" nature is not always helpful in the "real" 3D world. Online maps have also had this problem, but now this seems be changing. - 24 August 2007.

BBC Technology news - Trying to break the Google habit - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6546501.stm - Jane Wakefield - Google's dominance of the search market, which in the UK stands at 75%, is increasingly being challenged by rivals desperate to become popular with a generation of web users growing up with Google as their homepage. - 12 April 2007.

BBC Technology news - UK net causes to get cash boost - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7195618.stm - A £5m fund is being set up to finance worthy causes dedicated to educating people about the net or researching how it is used. - 18 January 2008.

BBC Technology news - US backing for two-tier internet - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6983375.stm - The US Justice Department has said that internet service providers should be allowed to charge for priority traffic. - 7 September 2007.

BBC Technology news - Video service YouTube grows up - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6221588.stm - YouTube may have started life as an online repository for wacky home videos but has quickly grown up to become a professional media platform that has transformed the way global broadcasters look at content and audiences. - Darren Waters - 20 June 2007.

BBC Technology news - Virtual worlds opened up to all - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7002479.stm - A free tool that allows anyone to create a virtual world has been launched. - Users of Metaplace, as it is known, can build 3D online worlds for PCs or even a mobile phone without any knowledge of complex computer languages. - Jonathan Fildes - Science and technology reporter, BBC News, San Francisco - 19 September 2007.

BBC Technology news - Web 2.0 debates internet's future - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7368387.stm - By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, San Francisco - San Francisco's Web 2.0 Expo conference brought together thousands of people responsible for crafting the future direction of the internet, and the world of applications - or apps - was front and centre. - Everyone from Microsoft to Yahoo to MySpace was on a mission to woo developers to create exciting applications for their devices. - 25 April 2008.

BBC Technology news - Web 2.0 'distracts good design' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6653119.stm - Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen has said. - 14 May 2007.

BBC Technology news - Web 2.0 is set for spending boom - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7359927.stm - By Maggie Shiels BBC News, San Francisco - Web 2.0 is set to be embraced by Enterprise 2.0 as businesses prepare to spend nearly $5 billion by 2013 on social networking tools. - Over half of the companies in North America and Europe see Web 2.0 as a priority for next year, a report says. - The news comes as San Francisco plays host to the Web 2.0 conference on next generation of the web. - 22 April 2008.

BBC Technology news - Web 2.0's 'digital mobs' attacked - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6379621.stm - The latest phase of internet - web 2.0 - has been attacked by a leading author and digital pioneer for its "mob" mentality and termed it "digital Maoism." - 22 February 2007.

BBC Technology news - Web 2.0 wave starts to take hold - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6574839.stm - Whether you use your computer for work or fun, the programs you use generally have one thing in common - they are stored on your PC. Increasingly though, that software is moving online. - Ian Hardy - 20 April 2007.

BBC Technology news - Web 2.0 wonders: Meebo - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6498223.stm - The web has evolved into an indispensable tool for our daily lives. But who are the people driving this growth? All this week the BBC News website is speaking to young, talented web pioneers working in Silicon Valley and beyond. - Darren Waters - 27 March 2007.

BBC Technology news - Web 2.0 wonders: StumbleUpon - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6506055.stm - Darren Waters - 29 March 2007.

BBC Technology news - Web 2.0 wonders: Yelp - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6510661.stm - Darren Waters - 30 March 2007.

BBC Technology news - Web 2.0 wonders: Zooomr's Kris Tate - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6502611.stm - Darren Waters - 28 March 2007.

BBC Technology news - Web apps tracking users attention - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6383561.stm - The biggest names in the web 2.0 movement were out in force in London this week to discuss the future. Investing in start-up firms and the use of online data were the key talking points of the Future of Web Applications conference. - By Andrew Gruen - 22 February 2007.

BBC Technology News - Web creator rejects net tracking - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7299875.stm - By Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent, BBC News - The creator of the web has said consumers need to be protected against systems which can track their activity on the internet. - Sir Tim Berners-Lee told BBC News he would change his internet provider if it introduced such a system. - 17 March 2008 - Questions and answers: Tim Berners-Lee - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7300434.stm - The creator of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, answers questions about the future of the web, social networking and personal privacy online.

BBC Technology news - Web desktop targets 'cybernomads' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7267534.stm - A virtual desktop aimed at users who access the web via cybercafes is attracting interest from organisations set up to bridge the digital divide - 28 February 2008.

BBC Technology news - Web icon set to be discontinued - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7163547.stm - The browser that helped kick-start the commercial web is to cease development because of lack of users. - 28 December 2007.

BBC Technology news - Web in infancy, says Berners-Lee - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7371660.stm - By Darren Waters Technology editor, BBC News website - The world wide web is "still in its infancy", the web's inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told BBC News. - He was speaking ahead of the 15th anniversary of the day the web's code was put into the public domain by Cern, the lab where the web was developed. - The future web will put "all the data in the world" at the fingertips of every user, Sir Tim said. - 30 April 2008.

BBC Technology news - Weblogs 'need content warnings' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6540385.stm - 10 April 2007.

BBC Technology news - Weblogs rack up a decade of posts - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7147728.stm - The word "weblog" celebrates the 10th anniversary of it being coined on 17 December 1997. - 17 December 2007.

BBC Technology news - Web search engines get personal - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6935731.stm - Web search engines get personal - For the nosy among us, it is the ultimate dream: having access to information about anyone, anywhere at the tip of your fingertips. - By Rebecca Morelle - Science reporter, BBC News - 8 August 2007.

BBC Technology news - Web speeds to increase 'ten-fold' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/7535735.stm - Dan Simmons looks at the ways researchers hope to stop the internet grinding to a halt as the demands placed on it continue to grow. - The world is hungry for bandwidth. - The first 1.3 billion people are already connected to the net and the next billion are keen to join in too. - Internet traffic is doubling every two years and there have been fears that this could overwhelm the net. - It is not about e-mail or web pages, but the demand for video and audio. - 1 August 2008.

BBC Technology news - Web tool to help survivors cope - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6756641.stm - Web technology may soon help survivors cope in the wake of a natural disaster. - 15 June 2007.

BBC Technology news - Web users driving change in 2007 - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6198125.stm - Mark Ward Technology Correspondent - 1st January 2007.

BBC Technology news - Web users 'getting more ruthless' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7417496.stm - Web users are getting more ruthless and selfish when they go online, reveals research. - The annual report into web habits by usability guru Jakob Nielsen shows people are becoming much less patient when they go online. - Instead of dawdling on websites many users want simply to reach a site quickly, complete a task and leave. - 24 May 2008.

BBC Technology news - What is this thing called Web 2.0? - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6529479.stm - Mark Ward Technology Correspondent - 6th April 2007.

BBC Technology news - When the net is watching you - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/6972079.stm - Click reporter David Reid asks why search engines are so keen to keep hold of our personal data. By David Reid Reporter, BBC Click - 31 August 2007.

BBC Technology news - Which freedoms do we want online? - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6685253.stm - We can't take an all or nothing approach to online expression, argues Bill Thompson. - 23 May 2007.

BBC Technology news - Wiki pinpoints Brazilian crime - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7347101.stm - By Helen Clegg BBC, Brazil - A few weeks ago while walking in a street in the Ipanema neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro I became another victim of crime in the city after being robbed. - Like many in the city, I was hesitant about contacting the police. For some there is a feeling that there is little point; for others a general distrust of them. - But this under-reporting of crime is one of the motivations behind a new interactive website called Wikicrimes, created by Professor Vasco Furtado from the University of Fortaleza in northern Brazil. - 15 April 2008.

BBC Technology news - Wikipedia creator turns to search - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6216619.stm - 29 December 2006.

BBC Technology news - Wikipedia founder takes on Google - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6335793.stm - By Matt Wells - Online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has helped transform the way people use the net to seek out information and now the founder Jimmy Wales is hoping to do the same in the search field - 7 February 2007.

BBC Technology news - Wikipedia 'shows CIA page edits' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6947532.stm - An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of organisations that edit Wikipedia pages has revealed that the CIA was involved in editing entries - By Jonathan Fildes - 15 August 2007.

BBC Technology news - Wikipedia takes business approach - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7347766.stm - Wikipedia started as a hobby with noble aims and in just six short years has turned into a global brand headed by a founder who is both a guiding light for devotees and a lightning rod for critics. - While Wikipedia goes from milestone to milestone in its quest to provide every person with a free encyclopaedia, Jimmy Wales's efforts to shift the organisation towards a more business like approach has put him firmly back in the firing line. - 15 April 2008.

BBC Technology news - Will Wikipedia always win? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/03/will_wikipedia_always_win.html - Rory Cellan-Jones. - 31 Mar 08.

BBC Technology News - Yahoo kicks off re-wiring project - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7366674.stm - Yahoo users will soon have one place where they can manage all the services they use on the popular website. - The company has begun a mammoth re-engineering project that will unify the disparate services Yahoo runs. - It hopes the project will transform the site into a vast social network where Yahoo users can quickly find and communicate with each other. - The project should also aims to make it easier for web developers to use Yahoo data and services for their own ends. - 25 April 2008.

BBC Technology News - Yahoo makes semantic search shift - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7296056.stm - Yahoo has announced its adoption of some of the key standards of the "semantic web". - The technology is widely seen as the next step for the world wide web and it involves a much richer understanding of the masses of data placed online. - The company said it would start to include some semantic web identifiers when indexing the web for Yahoo search. - The move could mean a big boost for semantic web technologies which have struggled to win a big audience. - 14 March 2008.

BBC Technology news - YouTube makes international move - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6757525.stm - Darren Waters - YouTube has announced international versions of its web video service. - Darren Waters - June 2007.

O'Reilly

O'Reilly - OnLamp.com - http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3017 - The Architecture of Participation - Tim O'Reilly - Apr. 06, 2003.

O'Reilly Radar - http://radar.oreilly.com/.

O'Reilly Radar - Open Source Licenses are Obsolete - http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/08/open_source_licenses_are_obsol.html.

O'Reilly Radar - Web 2.0: Compact Definition? - http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/10/web_20_compact_definition.html.

O'Reilly Radar - Web 2.0: Compact Definition: Trying Again - http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/12/web_20_compact.html.

O'Reilly - What Is Web 2.0 - http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html - Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software - Tim O'Reilly - 30th September 2005.

O'Reilly XML.com - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/10/11/introducing-open-laszlo.html - Introducing OpenLaszlo - Sreekumar Parameswaran Pillai - October 11, 2006.

O'Reilly XML.com - http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/1708 - Introducing OpenSearch - OpenSearch was originally developed at Amazon.com's A9 incubator. It's a specification under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, covering discovery and description documents for search engines, expression of queries, and the convention of RSS 2.0 or Atom Web feed results. - Uche Ogbuji - July 24, 2007.

O'Reilly XML.com - http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/1715 - Parsing Microformats - Microformats are a way to embed specific semantic data into the HTML that we use today. One of the first questions an XML guru might ask is "Why use HTML when XML lets you create the same semantics?" I won't go into all the reasons XML might be a better or worse choice for encoding data or why microformats have chosen to use HTML as their encoding base. This article will focus more on how to extract microformats data from the HTML, how the basic parsing rules work, and how they differ from XML. - Brian Suda - September 04, 2007.

O'Reilly XML.com - http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/12/through_a_glass_darkly_predict.html - Through a Glass Darkly - Predictions Past and Future - Kurt Cagle - December 31, 2006.

O'Reilly XML.com - http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2007/01/03/web-20-chizen.html - Web 2.0 Podcast: A Conversation with Bruce Chizen - Daniel H. Steinberg - January 3, 2007.

O'Reilly XML.com - http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/01/web_20_simple_division.html - Web 2.0: Simple division? - Web 2.0: Simple division? - Simon St. Laurent - January 23 2006

O'Reilly XML.com - http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/09/wednesdays_child.html - Wednesday's Child - Kurt Cagle - September 20th - 2006.

O'Reilly XML.com - http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html - What Is Web 2.0 - Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software - September 30th 2005.

O'Reilly XML.com - http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/08/why_you_should_let_web_20_into.html - Why you should let Web 2.0 into your hearts - Dan Zambonini - August 25th 2006.

O'Reilly XML.com - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/07/12/xquery-and-data-abstraction.html - XQuery and Data Abstraction - by Kurt Cagle - July 12, 2007.

People Inside & Web 2.0: An Interview with Tim O'Reilly - http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/04/25/people-inside-web-20-an-interview-with-tim-o-reilly/ - OpenBusiness spoke with Tim O'Reilly about the evolution of the Web and its most current trends, which are commonly labeled as Web 2.0. - 25th April 2006.

Pipes and Filters for the Internet - http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/pipes_and_filte.html - Tim O'Reilly on February 07, 2007.

Web 2.0 Projects

University of the West of England

Chris Wallace's AJAX Examples, explanations and documents - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~cjwallac/apps/ajax/index.html.

Flex 2 - UWE Example Built Using Sitepoint Tutorial - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/AMRCMembers/bin/AMRCMembers.html - Member Profile Viewer/Editor.

Interactive Examples

RSS and AJAX: Peter Hale Example based based on this tutorial - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/RDF/rssajax.htm - RSS Viewer.

User Driven Content Creation - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/#userdrivencontentcreation.

User Driven Modelling - Peter Hale Blog - MySpace Blog.

UWE Student Project - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/Web%20Semantic/Index.html - Investigating and implement the idea of 'ModConsWest' (Modelling and Constructionism with Web based E-Learning Semantic Tools)" - Lee Ediagbonya and Awaab Eltahir.

External

Chemical Ontologies (The CombeChem Folksonomy) - http://www.combechem.org/ - The ontologies used within the CombeChem metadata have been obtained entirely by building on established practice: we have deliberately not applied a top-down approach to ontology design. Our methodology has been very successful and has, for example, generated a new ontology for expressing units. This experience is feeding into our engagement with the Semantic Web community and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Citeulike - http://www.citeulike.org/ - Tagged Links to papers includes category of Computing - Engineering and several others.

Collaborative Bookmark Classifier - CariBo - http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/cgnm/software/caribo/index_en.html - Software / Collaborative Bookmark Classifier -- CariBoCariBo is a Collaborative Bookmark Classifier, realized as plugin of the Open-Source Bookmark Server "SiteBar". It is intended to support the evolution of stable and well-organized bookmark repositories (on a central server) by recommending a folder where to store a new bookmark as well as suggesting keywords for annotation.

CONNECTIONS - The Digital Living Conference and Showcase.

Creative Technology Network - http://www.creativetechnologynetwork.co.uk/ - Networking people and ideas across computing, communications and the creative industries.

del.icio.us - http://del.icio.us - social bookmarking.

DownloadSquad - http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/social-software.

Findability.org - http://findability.org/ - Peter Morville.

Free The Data - http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/38009/ - Frey, Jeremy G. (2006) Free The Data. At, WWW 2006 Panel Discussion, Edinburgh, UK, 25 March 2006.

GenX Design - http://www.gen-x-design.com - Web 2.0 Blog - PHP, JavaScript and Web 2.0 Goodies.

Gnowsis - http://www.gnowsis.org/ - welcome to gnowsis, the Semantic Desktop environment published by the Knowledge Management Lab of the DFKI. Gnowsis is a reference implementation of parts of the Nepomuk Semantic Desktop framework.

Go-go Google Gadget! - http://www.aadl.org/cat/seek/record=1028781 - data mash-ups to provide a personalised Google homepage with library data streams showing popular lendings, items you have checked out.

Google Maps - http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ - Put Google Maps on Your Own Web Site.

H2O project - http://h2o.law.harvard.edu/index.jsp - The H2O project is building an interlocking collection of communities based on the free creation and exchange of ideas. The best way to learn more about how H2O works is to join some projects and participate in the discussions. Here are some interesting public projects that you might consider joining: Internet & Society Project.

hCard - http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard - hCard is a simple, open, distributed format for representing people, companies, organizations, and places, using a 1:1 representation of the properties and values of the vCard standard (RFC2426 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt)) in semantic XHTML. hCard is one of several open microformat standards suitable for embedding in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML.

IBM QED Wiki - IBM eyes programming for the masses - By Martin LaMonica - CNET News.com.

IBM QEDWiki ACORD Demo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckGfhlZW0BY - IBM.

MapKit by Platial.com - http://www.platial.com/mapkit - The Power of Collaborative Maps on Your Site.

Microformats - http://microformats.org/about/ - Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats intend to solve simpler problems first by adapting to current behaviors and usage patterns (e.g. XHTML, blogging).

Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2006-10-24.html - Mozilla Releases Major Update to Firefox and Raises the Bar for Online Experience 24 October 2006.

OpenLaszlo - http://www.laszlosystems.com/developers/OpenLaszlo - Developer Zone.

Oxford Internet Institute - http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ - The Oxford Internet Institute is a department within the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxford. We are 'a leading world centre for the multidisciplinary study of the Internet and society, focusing on Internet-related research and teaching, and on informing policy-making and practice'.

Platypus Wiki - http://platypuswiki.sourceforge.net/whatis/index.html - What is Platypus Wiki? Platypus Wiki is an enhanced Wiki Wiki Web with ideas borrowed from the Semantic Web. We call it a Semantic Wiki Wiki Web.

Programmableweb - http://programmableweb.com/ - Keeping you up to date with the latest on mashups and the new Web 2.0 APIs.

Pure Usability - http://www.pureusability.co.uk/ - Designing a more usable web - Websites and web applications can often be incomprehensible, confusing or even downright annoying to those who use them. By understanding the needs of your users and the needs of your business, Pure Usability can help you to produce effective, enjoyable and successful web experiences.

Scenta - Broadcasting science on the web - http://www.scenta.co.uk/home/1700419/broadcasting-science-on-the-web.htm - Europe's scientific version of YouTube has been re-launched on the Sunny Side of the Doc international marketplace for documentaries.

Semantic Blogging Demonstrator - http://www.semanticblogging.org/semblog/blog/default/ - The demonstration platform for HP Labs' semantic blogging research programme.

SemanticDesktop.org - http://www.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/bin/view/Wiki/ - Welcome To The SemanticDesktop.org Wiki!

Semblogging - a guide to the HP Labs semantic blogging demonstrator - http://www.semanticblogging.org/semblog/whatisit.html - Here are some simple notes for looking at the HP Labs semantic blog. The blog is intended to show the use of semantic web technologies augmenting the blogging paradigm.

SemperWiki - http://www.semperwiki.org/ - a semantic personal Wiki. - SemperWiki is an open-source semantic personal Wiki for Gnome. It offers the usability of personal Wikis and the improved retrieval and querying of semantic Wikis.

SemWiki.org - The Semantic Wiki Community - http://www.semwiki.org/ - Semantic Wikis try to combine the strengths of Semantic Web (machine processable, data integration, complex queries) and Wiki (easy to use and contribute, strongly interconnected, collaborativeness) technologies.

SiteBar - http://sitebar.org/ - SiteBar 3.3.8 meets Web 2.0! - This release delivers improved user experience thanks to AJAX loading and simplified menus and dialogs.

SPIRE - http://spire.conted.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/trac.cgi - Welcome to the SPIRE project site - The SPIRE project will tackle policy, middleware and software issues to facilitate a community of authenticated peer-2-peer early adopters within UK HEIs. The SPIRE project is run by TALL in partnership with Penn State University funded by the JISC.

TiddlyWiki - http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ - TiddlyWiki - a reusable non-linear personal web notebook.

UKOLN - http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ - A centre of expertise in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information, education and cultural heritage communities. UKOLN is based at the University of Bath.

Web 2.0 in Science - http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2006/04/web_20_in_science.html - nature.com.

Web Forms 2.0 - http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/ - Working Draft - 12 October 2006.

Wikibooks - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page - Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Wikibooks began on July 10, 2003.

WorldWide Telescope WWT - Microsoft Research - http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/ - The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope—bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration of the universe. - Choose from a growing number of guided tours of the sky by astronomers and educators from some of the most famous observatories and planetariums in the country. Feel free at any time to pause the tour, explore on your own (with multiple information sources for objects at your fingertips), and rejoin the tour where you left off. Join Harvard Astronomer Alyssa Goodman on a journey showing how dust in the Milky Way Galaxy condenses into stars and planets. Take a tour with University of Chicago Cosmologist Mike Gladders two billion years into the past to see a gravitational lens bending the light from galaxies allowing you to see billions more years into the past.

XML Journal - http://xml.sys-con.com/ - The World's First and Only Dedicated XML Magazine ! - Web 2.0 Section.

Yahoo Pipes - http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ - Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. - Like Unix pipes, simple commands can be combined together to create output that meets your needs.

Semantic Web Information Management

Semantic Web and RDF (Resource Description Framework)

Semantic Web and RDF information.

A project was created by Leaver (2008) to enable End-User functionality for web based ontology construction and search. This was also used within my research to create an online wing ontology and search this.

Leaver, N., (2008) Using RDF as an Enabling Technology. MSc. Dissertation, University of the West of England, Bristol.

Semantic Web Applications - http://userdrivenmodelling.blogspot.com/2008/05/semantic-web-applications.html - This article is about the need for provision of Semantic Web applications to increase the amount of Semantic Web information that could be searched. This could result in a virtuous circle of Semantic Web applications creating Semantic Web information, and so justifying the creation of more Semantic Web applications to access it. The article advocates the use of Semantic Web applications for modelling and end-user programming, and integration into business applications. - 5th May 2008

Semantic Web Collaboration - http://ezinearticles.com/?Semantic-Web-Collaboration&id=1160019 - This article discusses how Semantic Web/Web 2.0 collaboration can enable ontology editing. This helps reach agreement on the meaning of terms, and encourages end-user modelling/programming by enabling simplified development of online applications. This could be an efficient way of managing large ontologies with multiple users. - 9th May 2008.

XML Examples using Schemas, DTDs and Stylesheets

These XML examples serve as events lists and as experimentation with the Oxygen XML editor and with the creation and documentation of a schema and DTD (Document Type Definition). XML Schema DTD and XSL stylesheet example.

This example converts an LDAP representation of a staff member (myself) to a representation required for the Faculty Information System Project of Chris Wallace, XSL Transformation Example.

Faculty Information System

Faculty Online Data (Fold) - Faculty Online Data (FOLD).

Tag Cloud - Programme Search by Tag Cloud.

Tag Cloud - Tag Cloud of Staff Keywords.

XForms Example - Form Editor - Created Using FormFaces and eXist.

Tutorial in SPARQL

Introducing SPARQL: Querying the Semantic Web - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/11/16/introducing-sparql-querying-semantic-web-tutorial.html - by Leigh Dodds - November 16, 2005 - An Introduction to SPARQL - This tutorial, the first of a three-part series, introduces SPARQL -- a query language and data access protocol for the Semantic Web. SPARQL is defined in terms of the W3C's RDF data model and will work for any data source that can be mapped into RDF. The specification is under development by the RDF Data Access Working Group (DAWG) and has recently reached Last Call Working Draft.

O'Reilly SPARQL - SPARQL: Web 2.0 Meet the Semantic Web.

RSS

RSS - RSS information

RSS and AJAX: A Simple News Reader - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/09/13/rss-and-ajax-a-simple-news-reader.html - O'Reilly XML.com - Paul Sobocinski - September 13, 2006.

RSS and AJAX: My Example based on the tutorial above - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/seeds/PeterHale/RDF/rssajax.htm - RSS Viewer.

Space Horizons RSS Feed - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/amrc/JANS/spacehorizons/folder/news.php - This website was designed and developed by three 2nd year Information Technology University students in Bristol to provide their client (Space Horizons) with a solution that promoted the organisations space projects, news and information to the public.

Squidoo Lens - Aerospace Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) - Systems Engineering Estimation and Decision Support (SEEDS) - Peter Hale.

XQuery examples eXist XML Database - RSS Reader example - Chris Wallace.

Wiki Sites and Tools

Netskills - http://netskills.wetpaint.com/.

Infoteach - http://www.infoteach.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page.

Plone - http://plone.org - Plone: A user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System.

User Driven Modelling Semantic Wiki - http://www.visualknowledge.com/wikikey/A143074S3496911 - Community.

My Blogs and Social Networks

MySpace Blog - http://myspace.com/petervincenthale.

Protégé Community Wiki - UserDrivenProgramming - http://protege.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UserDrivenProgramming.

User Driven Modelling Blog - http://userdrivenmodelling.blogspot.com/.

User Driven Modelling Semantic Wiki - http://www.visualknowledge.com/wikikey/A143074S3496911 - Community.

E-Learning

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/ELearning.htm.

Virtual Worlds and Second Life

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/ELearning.htm#SecondLifeandVirtualWorlds.

Metaplace - Online Virtual World Builder - http://www.metaplace.com/.

Metaplace - Online Virtual World Builder My Blog Post - http://userdrivenmodelling.blogspot.com/2007/09/metaplace-online-virtual-world-builder.html.

BBC Science/Technology News - Nasa investigates virtual space - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7195718.stm - The US space agency is exploring the possibility of developing a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game. - The virtual world would be aimed at students and would "simulate real Nasa engineering and science missions". - BBC News Technology - 18 January 2008. - NASA MMO - massively multiplayer online learning game - http://ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/mmo/ - NASA Learning Technologies Request for Information: Development of a NASA-based massively multiplayer online learning game - The NASA Learning Technologies (LT) project supports the development of projects that deliver NASA content through innovative applications of technologies to enhance education in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

NASA Multimedia - http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/index.html.

VastPark - http://www.vastpark.com/ - VastPark is a virtual content platform that enables you to create and deploy your own 3D virtual world within minutes.

Communities

Elgg - http://elgg.net/ - Who's interested in e-learning.

Digg - http://digg.com/view/technology - Technology.

Squidoo Lens - Aerospace Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) - Systems Engineering Estimation and Decision Support (SEEDS) - Peter Hale.

Community Projects - http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/#communityprojects.

Conferences - Recent and Future

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - Currently we have a two-centre lecture series and are now intending to establish a further centre in the South West. This would enable both interested industry and academic bodies to benefit. - Further Information - Word - Adobe PDF.

British Computer Society's Sociotechnical group - London - http://users.wmin.ac.uk/~coakese/lecture_series.htm - Sunderland - http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/webedit/allweb/news/SocioTechNorth.htm - The British Computer Society's SocioTech group hosts talks and events that relate to IT technology and its social impact. The talks are an excellent opportunity to find out about the variety of work in academic research and industry.

Conferences - Computing and Aerospace

http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~phale/Events.htm.

Local Events

BCS Sociotechnical group South West - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.10216.

September 2008

Friday 5th September 2008

Time: 14:00 - 18:00

Bristol Knowledge Unconference -

Location: eOffice Bristol, 1st Floor Prudential Buildings, 11-19 Wine Street Bristol, BS1 2PH.

A few more bits of information are available at:

http://vanirsystems.com/danielsblog/2008/07/22/date-set-for-bristol-knowledge-unconference/.

You can sign up for the event at:

http://knowledgeunconference.eventwax.com/bristol-knowledge-unconference.

British Computer Society Bristol BCS page - http://www.bristol.bcs.org.uk/?q=node/47.

The Bristol branch is supporting this first "Bristol Knowledge Unconference". The event will be themed around the general subject of Knowledge, which includes:

Daniel Lewis - Bristol Knowledge Unconference: A small progress update - http://vanirsystems.com/danielsblog/2008/07/15/bristol-knowledge-unconference-a-small-progress-update/ - Daniel Lewis - July 15th, 2008 by daniel - I mentioned a few days ago that I would be setting up a "Bristol Knowledge Unconference". - I've had a few emails about it, and a few blog comments... and I've actually been pleasantly surprised about the broad range of people interested in the event. I am still interested in hearing from others! - So heres the plan: - I'll be visiting various people and organisations this week and next week, to find out what they want from the event and for me to get to know them and them to get to know me (as I am quite new to Bristol), and what we work on. The first of which is tomorrow afternoon. (If you'd like me to come visit you in Bristol then do send me an email, I'll be happy to do so) - I hope to have set a date by Monday 21st July 2008. My feeling so far is that the event will be at some point in the next couple of months (i.e. before the end of September 2008). I will obviously let you know about this as soon as I have set it!

Daniel Lewis - Just a quick note to all of those in the South-West of England (and anyone else interested). - http://vanirsystems.com/danielsblog/2008/07/10/bristol-knowledge-unconference/ - I am organising a "Knowledge Unconference" in Bristol, which is loosely attached to the "Semantic Web South-West" Group.

The idea will be similar to a BarCamp, except that it is a lot lighter, more social, more hands-on. It will also be only half-a-day long. Plus it will be "themed" around the general subject of Knowledge. So for example:

The Semantic Web / Linked Data / Hyperdata / Data Web

Topic Maps

Information Architecture and Design

Knowledge Acquisition

Knowledge-Based Systems, Knowledge Engineering and Rule-Based Systems (etc)

Knowledge Visualisation

and maybe even, Object Oriented Databases

30 September 2008

Using Open Source and Open Standards to Enable Transformational Government

The Hawthorns, Woodland Road, Clifton, Bristol

British Computer Society BCS Bristol Branch

Transformational Government is intended to be an intensive, structural and fundamental change in the operational processes of Government bodies, enabled by the use of Information Systems & Technology in the back-office. It is expected to deliver major efficiency savings across the public sector without any further investment beyond existing budgets.

What does Transformational Government look like in practice within a Local Authority? How can it be implemented without any additional funding? How can intensely technical subjects like open source and open standards contribute to business change? Gavin Beckett, ICT Strategy Manager at Bristol City Council, will attempt to answer these questions and give an overview of Bristol's successes and challenges to date.

Gavin has been a central figure in Bristol's strategic use of Open Source and Open Standards since 2002; was a founder of the Open Source Academy; and works actively with a variety of EU interest groups and government bodies on the adoption of ODF.

Further Information - http://www.bristol.bcs.org.uk/?q=node/44.

October 2008

Thursday 9 October 2008

Informing Digital Futures: Strategies for Citizen Engagement

BCS Sociotechnical group South West

Professor Leela Damodaran, Loughborough University

Summary

In the present digital revolution we often seem trapped in a Kafkaesque world of technological advances, some desired, some disliked or even feared, which we cannot influence but must accept.

This talk discusses the urgent need to redress this situation. It will argue that technologies succeed or fail according to their relevance and value to people, who need to be actively engaged in order to create shared visions, and influence their implementation.

All too often ICT advances are regarded purely as a technical challenge where the designers believe that systems analysis will of itself yield complete and comprehensive functional specifications.

The talk will highlight the crucial benefits and added value to be gained from empowering citizens to shape ICT design decisions. Finally, it will provide specific practical guidance, based on sound academic research, for policy makers, administrators and ICT professionals on the strategies, methodologies, tools and techniques needed to change design practice.

Further Information - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.20503 - BCS Sociotechnical group South West - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.10216. - British Computer Society BCS Bristol page - http://www.bristol.bcs.org.uk/?q=node/49.

Thursday 23 October 2008

A Re-conceptualisation of the Interpretive Flexibility of Information Technologies: Redressing the balance between the Social and the Technical

BCS Sociotechnical group South West

Professor Neil Doherty Loughborough University

Summary

Interpretive flexibility - the capacity of a specific technology to sustain divergent opinions - has long been recognised as playing an important role in explaining how technical artefacts are socially constructed. What is less clear is how a system's technical characteristics might limit its ability to be interpreted flexibly.

This gap in the literature has largely arisen because recent contributions to this debate have tended to be rather one-sided, focussing almost solely upon the role of the human agent in shaping the technical artefact, and in so doing either downplaying or ignoring the artefact's shaping potential.

The broad aim of this presentation is to reappraise the nature and role of interpretive flexibility but giving as much consideration to how an information system's technical characteristics might limit its ability to be interpreted flexibly, as we do to its potential for social construction.

In this presentation the results of two in-depth case studies, are used in order to propose a re-conceptualisation of the role of interpretive flexibility. In short, this model helps explain how the initial interpretations of stakeholders are significantly influenced by the scope and adaptability of the system's functionality.

Stakeholder interpretations will then, in turn, influence how the system's functionality is appropriated and exploited by users, to allow divergent interpretations to be realised and sustained.

Further Information - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.20504 - BCS Sociotechnical group South West - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.10216. - British Computer Society BCS Bristol page - http://www.bristol.bcs.org.uk/?q=node/50.

November 2008

Friday 7 November 2008

Extending Collaboration with Social Software

BCS Sociotechnical group South West

Paula Dantas Senior IT Specialist for Lotus at IBM UK Ltd

Summary

The days when "Collaboration" meant "E-Mail" are well and truly over. Not only is real time collaboration becoming an accepted part of office life, but it is being extended to deliver Unified Communications and Collaboration.

However this is just the start. Web 2.0 is extending traditional Team Collaboration and Document Sharing solutions with Social Software designed to run within an enterprise and encourage better dissemination of information and faster decision making, as well as empowering employees to deliver the innovation companies need to maintain their competitive advantage.

This session looks at IBM's internal experiences from our research into social software and the impact it is having on the way we do business.

Further Information - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.20505 - BCS Sociotechnical group South West - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.10216.

November 11th 2008

Semantic Web Interest Group - SWIG-UK event

==== SWIG-UK - A Semantic Web Community Event

Hewlett-Packard Bristol

==== SWIG-UK - A Semantic Web Community Event

We would like to invite users and developers interested in the semantic web to attend a community event to be held at HP Labs Bristol, UK on Tuesday 11 November 2008. This will be an opportunity for you to meet other users and developers and to share experiences with semantic web applications.

The day will a mixture of discussion, demos, short presentations, with a few longer presentations if offered. The objective is to allow people to share experiences of using the semantic web. The agenda will be driven by the attendees; it is not limited to Jena applications nor limited to the UK.

Please register early so we know there is critical mass for the event.

Registration: swig-uk-2008@sparql.net

Further Information - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/semanticweb-southwest/ - Directions: http://www.hpl.hp.com/bristol/directions.html.

Thursday 20 November 2008

Goals and challenges for the co-evolution of social and technical defence capability

BCS Sociotechnical group South West

Professor Karen Carr Head of Centre for Human Systems at Cranfield University

Summary

The threats and constraints faced by our defence capability appear to be increasingly demanding. The diversity of threats taking place in complex political, social and physical environments require defence mechanisms that are at once agile, accurate, global, minimal, rapid and sustainable. Network Enabled Capability, Effects Based Operations and the Comprehensive Approach are some of the initiatives that attempt to meet these requirements.

The manner in which the MoD attempts to develop these aspects of defence capability is subject to many challenges, including the traditionally disjointed approach to the so-called 'moral' and 'physical' components: effectively equipment and personnel. A major part of the new initiatives across defence is the use of Information Technologies to support collaboration between distributed people from different national and professional cultures.

As is well known in many fields, successful collaboration of this sort requires an integrated approach to the development of supporting technology, process, organization and social factors. This lecture will review the obstacles and opportunities within the MoD organization for achieving this integrated approach.

Further Information - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.20513 - BCS Sociotechnical group South West - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.10216.

December 2008

Thursday 4 December 2008

The NHS National Programme for Information Technology: A Sociotechnical Perspective

BCS Sociotechnical group South West

Professor Emeritus Ken Eason Bayswater Institute / Loughborough University

Summary

Launched in 2002 the NHS National Programme for Information Technology is a very large 10-year programme to create electronic patient records that can be shared across all the NHS Trusts in England.

It is funded to deliver interoperable technical systems but has as its fundamental objective the development of healthcare practices based on electronic records. This implies major changes to the work practices of nearly a million NHS staff and means that the Programme is an attempt at very large-scale sociotechnical systems change.

This presentation will review the progress of the programme from a sociotechnical systems perspective after 6 years and examine whether and how changes in working practice are being accomplished. The findings show not only the impact of the Programme on the NHS Trusts but also the effect of the Trusts on the technology suppliers and the organisation of the programme itself.

Further Information - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.20506 - BCS Sociotechnical group South West - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.10216. - British Computer Society BCS Bristol page - http://www.bristol.bcs.org.uk/?q=node/52.

Other Conferences

Accessibility 2.0: a million flowers bloom - http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/accessibility2/ - 25th of April 2008 AbilityNet are delighted to welcome you to our accessibility event of the year! - Focussing on the accessibility of Web 2.0 online applications, this conference boasts some of the best experts from across the industry.

ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia and the Web - http://www.sigweb.org/conferences/deng-cover.shtml - Conferences.

ACM Document Engineering Confernce Details - http://www.documentengineering.org/ - The ACM Symposium on Document Engineering is an annual meeting of researchers active in document engineering.

ACM - DocEng 2005 - http://www.hpl.hp.com/conferences/DocEng2005/ - ACM Symposium on Document Engineering - 2-4 November 2005 - Bristol, United Kingdom.

ACM - DocEng 2006 - http://www.cwi.nl/events/2006/DocEng2006/ - ACM Symposium on Document Engineering - 10-13 October 2006 - Amsterdam, Netherlands.

ACM - DocEng 2007 - http://doceng07.cs.umanitoba.ca/ - ACM Symposium on Document Engineering - 28-31 August 2007 - Winnepeg, Canada.

AJAXWorld - http://www.ajaxworldexpo.com/ - Call For Papers Open for AJAXWorld 2007 - Rich Internet Applications - AJAX, Web 2.0, Flex, Flash, and Beyond... March 19-21, 2007 in New York City.

ALT-C 2006: the next generation - http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2006/ - Welcome to the web site for ALT-C 2006, the 13th International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology, which was held at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, between 5 and 7 September 2006.

BCS (British Computer Society) - Usability: beyond just the website - http://www.sussex.bcs.org.uk/meetings.htm - 13 February, Brighton - BCS Sussex Branch Meetings 2007-2008 - Meetings held at Chichester 1, University of Sussex, Brighton. (But check individual meetings for changes of exact venue.) - 7:00 for 7:30 p.m.- Desmond Boksan-Cullen, CPLUS IT Services, Eastbourne - The term usability is often referred to by IT professionals when discussing website design. Whilst it is true that websites should be constructed using usability and accessibility features, the term usability is much more that just websites. Many companies have excellent websites, but use forms that are difficult to read and understand. Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) are often notorious for their bad usability and one of the most used computer terminals often has a GUI that is difficult to read, understand and interact with, this being the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) or cash-point machine.

BCS - Web2.0 in the Enterprise - Part II - http://www.kent.bcs.org/events.htm - Simon Revell and Scott Gavin - Wednesday 5th September 2007 - Canterbury Christ Church University.

BlogWorld & New Media Expo - http://www.blogworldexpo.com/ - November 8th and 9th at the Las Vegas Convention Center, with an exclusive "Executive & Entrepreneur" conference beginning November 7th - The first and only industry-wide tradeshow, conference, and media event dedicated to promoting the dynamic industry of blogging and new media. In addition to the only industry-wide exhibition, BlogWorld will feature the largest blogging conference in the world including more than 50 seminars, panel discussions and keynotes from iconic personalities on the leading-edge of online technology and internet-savvy business.

CONNECTIONS - 2nd Annual CONNECTIONS Europe Conference. - DEC 4-6, 2007 - http://www.parksassociates.com/events/europe/home.htm - CONNECTIONS Europe: Strategies for Digital Living Markets - DEC 4-6, 2007, Berlin, Germany - Previous Event - http://www.parksassociates.com/events/conn2007/home.htm - Blog - The Digital Living Conference and Showcase.

D×3: Conference & Expo - http://www.dx3conference.com/ - Boston 15th-18th May 2007 - Boston USA - D×3 is a four-day conference and expo filled with how-to workshops and sessions, created for interactive designers and developers who are moving beyond the web browser to deploy rich experiences to the desktop, game consoles, and mobile devices.

Enterprise Architecture Conference Europe 2008: 11-13 June 2008, London - http://www.irmuk.co.uk/eac2008/ - This 9th Annual Enterprise Architecture Conference is Europe's leading conference on Enterprise Architecture. Choose from 7 pre-conference seminars and 4 conference tracks. Case studies include Reuters, ABN AMRO, HBOS, Ministry of Defence, Lloyds TSB, John Lewis, The Home Office, DHL Express Europe, Office for National Statistics, UWV (Dutch Social Security), Guy's and St Thomas Hospital, British Energy, NASA.

ESTC2007 - http://www.estc2007.com/ - 1st European Semantic Technology Conference initiates a new conference series in Semantic technologies in Europe. ESTC2007 is a new European meeting ground for customers, developers and researchers to discuss the applicability and commercialization of Semantic technologies in corporate settings - May 31st - June 1st - Vienna - Austria.

EUROMEDIA 2008 - 14TH ANNUAL MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/461 - UNIVERSITY OF PORTO - PORTUGAL - APRIL 9-11, 2008 - The 2008 Euromedia conference covers the latest developments in web-multimedia and communications technology while also looking at their implementation in Broadband networking, mobile computing, broadband networking, distributed computing, telematics, E-technology and real world environments like embedded systems, security systems and training systems. - More info about the event can be found on: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/100 - The workshops page has been updated: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/476 - especially the track on D-TV - The venue page has been updated: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/478 - The hotel page has been updated: http://www.eurosis.org/cms/index.php?q=node/471.

European ICT Forum - http://www.idc.com/events/emea/ictforum07/index.jsp - 10th -11th September 2007 Berlin - IDC's flagship event in Europe, now in its 17th year, is being held in the heart of Europe - Berlin. - This year, the forum will focus on the converging 2.0 technologies that are revolutionizing business and IT. The decisions companies make today, in relation to these technologies, will help or hinder their ability to compete and survive in the next few years.

European RailsConf 2006 - Ruby On Rails - September 14 and 15 London.

Eurosis - Euromedia 2007 - http://85.255.195.219/cms/cms/?q=node/147 - April 25-27, 2007, TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands - The European Multidisciplinary Society for Modelling and Simulation Technology

Eurosis - NASTEC' 2008 - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/145 - August 13-15, 2008 - McGill University, Montreal, Canada. - Themes Soft Computing, Web Computing and VR.

FUBUTEC 2008 - http://www.eurosis.org/cms/?q=taxonomy/term/94 - April 9-11, 2008, FEUP-University of Porto, Porto, Portugal - 5th Annual Future Business Technology Conference 2008 - Limiting Risk in Business through Simulation.

Future Interactive Technologies - Christmas Lecture - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conEvent.533 - British Computer Society (BCS) - South Wales Branch - Tuesday 5th Dec 2006 - Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

Health 2.0 Conference - September 20, 2007 - The Hilton San Francisco - http://www.health2con.com/ - User- Generated Healthcare - Health 2.0 conference - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConBlogEntry.161 - The Health 2.0 conference takes place in San Francisco this week. The idea of 'user-generated healthcare' is potentially challenging to health care systems around the world - will we in the UK, especially the health informatics community, become engaged with it, or remain tied to monolithic dinosaurs like NHS Connecting for Health? - Peter Murray - 18 Sep 2007.

Hypertext 2007 - Hypertext, The Web, and Beyond: Five Autonomous Programmes, One Unified Conference - http://www.sigweb.org/ht07/ - Manchester, UK 10th - 12th September 2007.

IADIS (International Association for Development of the Information Society) - http://www.iadis.org/ - Home page with Conference Details.

IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2007 http://www.mccsis.org/ - Lisbon, Portugal 3 - 8 July 2007.

ITA 07 - Second International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications - http://www.ita07.org/login/index.php - 4th - 7th September 2007 - The second in a series of biennial international conferences on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 07), will be held in Wrexham, North East Wales, UK from Tuesday 4th to Friday 7th September 2007. The conference will draw together researchers and developers from academia and industry across all fields of Internet computing and engineering. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

Learning Technology for the social network generation - ALT-C 2007 - http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2007/ - Nottingham, UK, 4-6 September 2007 - Welcome to the web site for ALT-C 2007, the 14th International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology, which will be held at East Midlands Conference Centre (EMCC), Nottingham, England.

LeWeb - http://www.leweb3.com/ - More than 2,000 web developers have gathered for the LeWeb conference, organised by blogger and businessman Loic LeMeur - Paris December 11th-12th 2007.

MetaKnowledge mash-up 2007 - http://www.epsg.org.uk/KIDMM/mashup2007/ - Data, information resources and repositories of human knowledge - people and organisations increasingly gather, produce, manage, classify, index and access these using networked computers. - 17 September, London.

Online Information 2007 - http://www.online-information.co.uk/online07/ - the world's leading event for online content and information management solutions. - December 4th - 6th, 2007 - Olympia Conference Centre Kensington London, England.

O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2007 - http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2007/ - Portland, Oregon - July 23-27 2007.

O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2008 - http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2007/ - Portland, Oregon - July 21-25 2008.

29th November 2007

10-5pm, Watershed, Bristol

Pervasive Media Ideas Lab

Creative Technology Network

This collaborative workshop-based event is aimed at individuals, companies and organisations interested in exploring the emerging area of Pervasive Media. Its aim is to introduce and explore the possibilities, develop a community of interest and generate and develop pilot ideas for the Media Sandbox commissioning scheme.

Further Information - http://www.creativetechnologynetwork.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=116&d=23&h=5&f=3.

Public sector online 2007 - http://www.kablenet.com/ke.nsf/EventsSummaryView/493683028660376B8025730000388C9E?OpenDocument - 2nd annual Public sector online - Create, inspire, communicate... 27 September 2007 - Inmarsat Conference Centre, London.

PyCon UK : a Python Conference - http://www.pyconuk.org/ - 8th-9th September 2007 - Birmingham Conservatoire - PyCon UK is a conference all about the Python programming language, it's aimed at the Python community: Python users and programmers, of all skill levels.

RAILSCONF BLOG - Dr Dobb's Portal - Lightweight Languages - RailsConf 2006 - FINAL REPORT - Mike Riley.

Reboot - http://www.reboot.dk/ - 31. may-1. june 2007, copenhagen, denmark - reboot is a community event for the practical visionaries who are at the intersection of digital technology and change all around us... 2 days a year. 500 people. A journey into the interconnectedness of creation, participation, values, openness, decentralization, collaboration, complexity, technology, p2p, humanities, connectedness and many more areas.

Risk and the web - what makes a web project fail? - http://www.bcs.org.uk/branches/wlondon/jan07.htm - British Computer Society Talk - London - Tuesday 9th January 2007 - 7.20pm for 7.45pm.

SOFTNET 08 - http://www.iec.org/events/2008/sofnet/ - Uniting software with hardware, SOFNET explores the softelco transition plans and how the web 2.0 world and traditional telcos will work together. - 28th April - 1st May - Olympia National Hall, London.

SXSW Interactive - http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/ - March 7-11, 2008 - Austin - Texas.

Sys-Con Events - http://events.sys-con.com/ - AJAXWorld - October 20-22, 2008 San Jose, CA. - and other events SOA, Virtualization.

Technology of tomorrow 08 - http://www.tot2008.com/ - With speakers including Sir Richard Branson, Carly Fiorina, Jimmy Wales and Steve Wozniak plus others, Technology of tomorrow 08 will focus on the big issues in technology that span leadership and more. BCS members are eligible to a 20 per cent discount on all tickets. - 30th September 2008.

The Future of the Internet in Focus - http://jzvsbt.eventbrite.com/ - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm - London. - The Future of the Internet in Focus: Jonathan Zittrain and Bill Thompson in conversation with Becky Hogge - Join the Open Rights Group's Becky Hogge in conversation with Jonathan Zittrain, author of the Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, and leading technology critic Bill Thompson, hosted by the British Computer Society. - Will consumer pressure for a safer net mean the end of open platforms and rapid innovation? And should the geeks who "get" the net care if the rest of the world prefer TiVos and iPhones? This exclusive event, aimed squarely at the UK online community, is your chance to put these questions and more to this expert panel.

'The Web: Looking Back, Looking Forward' - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.8997 - Tuesday 13th March 2007 - Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3LS.

UK Geospatial Mash-up - http://geospatial.bcs.org/site/index.php?s=future-events#7 - Fri 20th Oct 2006.

Web 2.0 Conference - http://www.web2con.com/web2006/ - November 7-9 2007 -San Francisco.

Web 2.0 Expo - http://www.web2expo.com/ - San Francisco April 15th -18th 2007 - From the folks who coined the term, Web 2.0 Expo is a new event that brings Web 2.0 to life and to your business. Are you a designer, developer, entrepreneur, operations manager, PM, business strategist or marketer--or all of the above--seeking to create and leverage the new web? Then come learn, network, share, and celebrate the Web 2.0 community.

Web2.0 in the Enterprise - Experiences and Opportunities - http://www.kent.bcs.org/events - British Computer Society Kent Branch - Wednesday 25th April 2007. Buffet and refreshments from 6.30pm, talk starts at 7pm - Canterbury Christ Church University.

Web 2.0 in the Enterprise - Part II Simon Revell and Scott Gavin - http://www.kent.bcs.org/events - British Computer Society Kent Branch - Wednesday 12th September 2007. Buffet and refreshments from 6.30pm, talk starts at 7pm - Canterbury Christ Church University - This event is open to those who are not currently BCS members. - In April of this year Simon and Scott presented on the emerging area of IT called enterprise2.0, meaning adoption of web2.0 within the corporate setting. - In this session Simon and Scott will revisit the topic by providing a brief reminder of the approaches and technologies encompassed within enterprise2.0, and then opening up the session for group discussion and Q & A.

Web 2.0 Summit - http://www.web2summit.com/ - Discovering the Web's Edge - Where are we most stimulated? At the Web's edge. Where are the greatest opportunities, and the greatest risks? At the Web's edge-the places where the Web is just beginning to take root: the industries, geographies, and applications that have yet to be conquered by the Web's wide reach. - October 17-19 2007 San Francisco - California.

Web Based Communities 2007 - http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/index.asp - Conference Homepage.

Web Directions Government - http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/08/new-directions-in-web-conferences/ - What: A full day of workshops followed by a one-day conference focussing on web sites and applications in the public sector - Where: Canberra, Australia - When: May 19-20, 2008.

Web Directions North - http://north.webdirections.org/ - Vancouver Canada, February 6-10th 2007.

Web Directions South 2007 - http://www.webdirections.org/ - Sydney - September 27-28.

Web Directions User Experience - http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/08/new-directions-in-web-conferences/ - What: A full day of workshops followed by a one-day conference focussing on user experience for the Web - Where: Melbourne, Australia - When: May 15-16, 2008.

Where 2.0 Conference 2008 - http://en.oreilly.com/where2008/public/content/home - 12th - 14th May 2008 Burlingame - CA - Now in its fourth year, the Where 2.0 Conference is where the grassroots and leading edge developers building location aware technology intersect with the businesses and entrepreneurs seeking out location apps, platforms, and hardware to gain a competitive edge. In the O'Reilly conference tradition, Where 2.0 presents leading trends rather than chasing them.

XML.Com - Conferences - http://conferences.oreillynet.com/.

XTech Conference - Schedule - XTech 2006: "Building Web 2.0" - 16-19 May 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

XTech Conference - Building Rich, Encapsulated Widgets Using XBL, XForms and SVG - Mark Birbeck, x-port.net Ltd.

Publications and References

Addressing The Limitations Of Open Standards - Kelly, B., Guy, M., Dunning, A., 2007. - http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/papers/mw-2007/paper-standards/ - Museums and the Web 2007 - San Francisco 11-13th April 2007.

AjaxWorld - http://ajax.sys-con.com/.

Are Server-Side XForms Engines the Future of XForms? - http://www.idealliance.org/proceedings/xtech05/papers/03-08-03/ - Bruchez, E, 2005. XTech 2005 Conference.

Collecting and preserving the World Wide Web - Michael Day, UKOLN, University of Bath - Version 1.0 - 25 February 2003.

Harnessing the Wisdom of Crowds: How To Semantically Annotate Web Resource Using Folksonomies - Hend S. Al-Khalifa and Hugh C. Davis - Proceedings of IADIS Web Applications and Research 2006 (WAR2006).

How Semantics Make Better Wikis - Eyal Oren, John G. Breslin, Stefan Decker, 2006 - WWW 2006, May 23-26, 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Inducing ontology from Flickr tags. Schmitz, P., 2006. WWW2006 Conference, Edinburgh, UK. May 22-26, 2006. - http://www.semanticmetadata.net/hosted/taggingws-www2006-files/22.pdf.

Lost in hyperspace: metrics and mental models, Otter and Johnson, 2000, Interacting with Computers, Volume 13, Number 1, September 2000, pp. 1-40(40).

Networked Neighbourhoods - http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.11982 - BCS British Computer Society - Review - Danny Williams - July 2007.

Ontologies as Conceptual Models for XML Documents. Erdmann, M., Studer, R. 1999. In: Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modelling and Management (KAW'99), Banff, Canada, October 1999. - http://xml.coverpages.org/erdmann-semantic-xql-webdb00.pdf.

OntoWiki - A Tool for Social, Semantic Collaboration - Auer, S., Riechert, T., Dietzold, S., 2006. 5th International Semantic Web Conference, Athens, GA, USA, November 5-9, 2006.

Semantic Blogging and Decentralized knowledge Management. Cayzer, S. 2004. Communications of the ACM. Vol. 47, No. 12, Dec 2004, pp. 47-52. ACM Press.

Techniques for Authoring Complex XML Documents - Quint, V., Vatton, I., 2004. - http://wam.inrialpes.fr/publications/2004/DocEng2004VQIV.html - DocEng 2004 - ACM Symposium on Document Engineering Milwaukee October 28-30 - This paper reviews the main innovations of XML and considers their impact on the editing techniques for structured documents.

The ePerson Snippet Manager: a Semantic Web Application - http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2002/HPL-2002-328.html - Banks, Dave; Cayzer, Steve; Dickinson, Ian; Reynolds, Dave - In this report we describe the lessons and experiences from developing a substantial semantic web application in the domain of community knowledge management.

The Power of Information - http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/publications/reports/power_information/power_information.pdf?id=3965 - Cabinet Office - An independent review by - Ed Mayo and Tom Steinberg - June 2007.

Towards Active Web Clients - Quint, V., Vatton, I., 2005. - http://wam.inrialpes.fr/publications/2005/DocEng05-Quint.html - DocEng 2005 - ACM Symposium on Document Engineering - 2-4 November 2005 - Bristol, United Kingdom. - Recent developments of document technologies have strongly impacted the evolution of Web clients over the last fifteen years, but all Web clients have not taken the same advantage of this advance. In particular, mainstream tools have put the emphasis on accessing existing documents to the detriment of a more cooperative usage of the Web. However, in the early days, Web users were able to go beyond browsing and to get more actively involved.

Web 2.0 Journal - http://web2journal.com/.

What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education - Paul Anderson - http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf - JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) Technology and Standards Watch, Feb. 2007 - Within 15 years the Web has grown from a group work tool for scientists at CERN into a global information space with more than a billion users. Currently, it is both returning to its roots as a read/write tool and also entering a new, more social and participatory phase. These trends have led to a feeling that the Web is entering a 'second phase' - a new, 'improved' Web version 2.0. But how justified is this perception?

XForms: an Alternative to Ajax?. Bruchez, E, 2006. In: XTech 2006: Building Web 2.0 16-19 May 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. - http://xtech06.usefulinc.com/schedule/paper/133.

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