Oracle Technology Network has a new “skin” based on RDF (Semantic Web) technology.

According to Computer World, Microsoft Corp. will feed users of Windows Vista with an update next week in order to target pirated copies with cracks that the company will bust when it released Service Pack 1 (SP1), in mid-March. The announcement of the upgrade, which will take place through Windows Update (WU) and will be automatically installed on most Vista machines, detect two commonly used cracks which activate pirated copies of the operating system. The cracks bypasses Vista’s detection technology incorporated in the software and circumvents it...

Semantic blogging is aimed at strengthening traditional blogging by using Semantic Web technologies. Blog entries are enriched with semantic metadata. However, authoring metadata is not easy for normal users. Today semantic blogging offers limited only semantic capabilities. It is still difficult to navigate through semantically related entries, search and organize the relevant blog. OntoBlog attempts to resolve these issues, linking blogs to maintain an existing ontology using available ontology management environment. OntoBlog is a semantic blogging prototype...

This blog focuses on the issue of the Semantic Web and its impact on the internet today, especially the World Wide Web. According to Wikipedia: The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the meaning of information and services on the web is defined, and in which the web to an increasing degree can understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines attempting to use the web content. It derives from W3C director Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge exchange. In...