Haven’t we got enough? Just in case you are among the uninformed:
Yahoo announced support of Common Tag, a new semantic tagging format for Web pages. The easiest explanation for Common Tags is that it is an HTML extension that makes it easier for content to be indexed and categorized.The goal of semantic standards like Common Tag is to allow better decentralized interoperability between many different kinds of companies, services and individuals. According to the Common Tag website, “The Common Tag format was developed to address the current shortcomings of tagging and help everyone - including end users, publishers and developers - get more out of Web content. With Common Tag, content is tagged with unique, well-defined concepts - everything about New York City is tagged with one concept for New York City and everything about jaguar the animal is tagged with one concept for jaguar the animal. Common Tag also provides access to useful metadata that defines each concept and describes how the concepts relate to one another. For example, metadata for the Barack Obama Common Tag indicates that he’s the President of the United States and that he’s married to Michelle Obama.
“To read more: http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2009/06/12/common-tag-the-new-semantic-layer.aspx
We have arrived at another Friday - in the Northeast, rain all the way! Does dreary weather cause dreary business? Does it turn you off to doing anything at all? Or are you totally focused and don’t even notice what the sky is doing? Not many of us can achieve that selfless state of being, but if you are one of the “Saints,” three cheers and a happy bank account. Spend the weekend figuring out “Semantic layers!” Have fun.
