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Author Archives: Manuel Vila

I’m a french web designer and programmer.

The Object Oriented Web

I don’t know about you but personally speaking, I have the feeling that a little something is missing in the Semantic Web as it is today. Both RDF and microformats aims to normalize data so that websites can communicate between each others. It would be a big step forward, similar to the invention of writing [...]

Social networks

Once again, the main idea behind the social networks comes from a reversal process. We’re dealing with an approach focused on the people (user-centric) and not on the applications allowing to produce various data (text with blogs, pictures on Flickr, videos on YouTube, etc.). Rather than indicate to our contacts the numerous RSS feeds representing [...]

Datahubs

To begin with, there is a very simple idea: websites should indicate themselves their changes to the search engines. I’ve already touched on the subject in a previous post, right now search engines have a reversed approach which consists in crawling the web constantly looking for the slightest modification. Don’t you think it’s silly? Think [...]

Backlinks

The more we use the internet, the more we realize the necessity of finding new solutions to better organize the growing mass of informations. Today we actually have a certain number of tools to add meaning to the informations that we drop all over the web. A comprehensible meaning to computers, allowing them to help [...]