Turbo-charge your Firefox browsing

Some excellent tools to help you make the most of your time using Firefox.

Nepomuk – the social semantic desktop

Nepomuk – the social semantic desktop. This EU-funded project aims to apply the kind of semantic solutions being deployed on the web to your desktop allowing your desktop to more easily process the information it has across different platforms, media types and applications.

Neat presentation on semantic search

Following on from my articles on Web 3.0 for journalism.co.uk and the full interview with John Breslin, I came across this short by excellent presentation by Brooke Aker on What is Semantic Search?

Privacy and the Semantic Web

Semantic Web pioneer John Breslin has responded to my articles on Web 3.0 in his post on his Cloudlands blog.

The Semantic Web today – An Interview with John Breslin

Everyone assumes that the ’semantic web’ will mean we’ll have better search engines. In fact, Web 3.0 will do a lot more, and journalists and researchers should be ahead of the curve.
Not many people are as close to the heart of the Semantic Web as John Breslin. John is the founder of the Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) project, a member of the W3C Advisory Committee, lecturer at the National University of Ireland and an associate researcher on the semantic web at the Digital Research Institute in Galway.

I caught up with John recently for this analysis of the semantic web and journalism published by journalism.co.uk. John’s points were so interesting that Insite has brought you the full interview.