Decentralization

Daniel Hillis from Applied Minds concluded his Remixing Technology at Applied Minds talk by saying that the federated database model of Flickr and Amazon is wrong in the long term, and he said that the alternative, the semantic web aggregation of public, decentralized, P2P databases is the way of the future. Hello, formal nakedness, hello interoperable (yet not identical) personal ontologies!!!

Formal Nakedness at McGill University

Thought you'd like to know that formal nakedness-like topics are getting awareness in the academic world. From the summary, a talk on federated identity management & cryptography, given this Friday at McGill, sounds a lot like a formal nakedness apology. Anyways, thanks Vamshi for the scoop.

Formal Nakedness

Next semantic web meetup is in 6 days, on monday Feb 7 2005 @ 7PM, downtown Montreal. Please check the web page for more information on how to get there, and to RSVP (whether or not your are coming). I propose the following topic : formal nakedness. I think we should spend the first hour on engineering aspects and the rest on the philosophy behind it. Let me give you some hint on what formal nakedness means to me...