Archive for March, 2006

Folksonomy to Ontology

Friday, March 31st, 2006

So after presenting all my views on why it should be possible to transform tag clouds to structured data entities (ontologies of sorts), I have gone about devising a method to do so.

When it is ready, I will release a Protege project showing how it is done. In the meantime look at my Protege page on this blog, which is where the project will eventually go.

Right on Writely

Friday, March 17th, 2006

A while back I wrote a short blog about how much I liked Writely the web based word processor. Apparently Google liked it too, and they bought the company.

Before then, I was an “active user” sending bug reports concerning Firefox on Linux which is my platform. I got a personal email from the developers thanking me for the bug reports, because this is not so common a platform (unfortunately!!!!)

Anyway, after the buyout I sent them a message saying how glad I was for their success, and telling them how much I appreciated the service they provided before. I hoped the service would continue after the buyout. Amazingly, a few hours later I received another email from the developers, in response to my comment, thanking me for the support!!!

Amazing. Here is a bunch of guys who did not go straight to the bar to celebrate their success …. which they well deserve.