Happy Ramzan 2009 Everyone

Hope that it will bring peace to our country, Muslims and whole Humanity!

Keep Fasting!

Windows 7 is coming 2009 fall, but would it be a smart move to jump to it leaving trusty XP sp3 or Vista sp2?. Some vendors (Dell, Hp) want us to shift to Vista right now while other wants us to buy future DX 11 hardware which is one of candies Windows 7 is going to come with. Just like vista, the more people jumped shifting to it the more pain they felt, i think in the technology world, no matter its hardware or software the first consumers who get it are really "Lab Rats". They are the people who are experimented on and later improvements are made on the products based on the painful cries of early customers.

So the question arises, "Are we going to be the first buyers of Windows 7?"

“The semantic web is an extension of the current web that allows to find, share and combine information more easily”

Eric Miller – Lead W3C Semantic Web Activity

Our current representation of data over the web is unconstrained, ambiguous and not ready for machine processing. Semantic web allows us to add metadata in a more formalized way that makes it easier for machines to process our information. The semantic web is a vision of information that is understandable by computers, so that they can perform more of the tedious work involved in finding, sharing, and combining information on the web. It’s a concept by Tim Berners-Lee (founder of WWW), he describes semantic web as component of Web 3.0.

Web 2.0 refers to the second generation of websites or the web design itself. A Web 2.0 web has characteristics includes information sharing, interoperability, user-friendly design and collaboration. Examples of Web 2.0 sites include social-networking sites, wikis, blogs etc. Web 2.0 is not some kind of technical specification it’s rather concerned with how websites or web applications are developed and used by the end user.

Web 2.0 basically includes the web applications that can do more than just retrieve information over the web; they can give user a number of features over the web which in the past was only available as desktop applications.

“The characteristics of Web 2.0 are: rich user experience, user participation, dynamic content, metadata, web standards and scalability. Further characteristics, such as openness, freedom and collective intelligence by way of user participation, can also be viewed as essential attributes of Web 2.0.“

Wikipedia