16 December 2002

News.Com: "Microsoft has yet to disclose the proprietary dialect, or underlying schema, of the XML used in Office 11." All Office products will output to an XML file, which would be viewable via any browser, but editable only from within the originating office application--or by a very, very skilled XML programmer So its going to be more complicated than <xml><worddoc>blah blah</worddoc> then - wow, why am I not surprised. posted at: 4:51:36 PM   Creative Types: A Lot in Common. The Internet is teeming with creative people who aren't famous or rich. A new set of licenses from Creative Commons will allow copyright holders to share their work according to conditions they specify -- and boost their profiles. By Kendra Mayfield. [Wired News] I presume this will get a lot of coverage over the next few days. posted at: 3:38:01 PM   Tim Berners-Lee Reports on the Semantic Web. Its good, but is it really that good? I fear it is being over hyped. The 'commercial internet', i.e. post 1995 was paid for by venture capitalists, and eventually nearly everyone, pouring money in - and loosing it. One might conjecture that this was a one off occurence. Can/will the Semantic web be paid for by the current operators, it will only occur if your competitors are getting an advantage over you from it - ye classic chicken and egg, but for the Semantic Web, its a very large egg, needing a very big chicken. posted at: 8:41:58 AM

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