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15 Title Tag Optimization Guidelines For Usability And Seo | Usability Geek
Title tag optimization
Title tag optimization is important because the content of the title tag is used by: Web browsers: To label the web browser’s tab(s) (Older browsers used to display the title of the web page in the browser’s window title) Search engines: As the clickable headline for listings…
Cool Uris For The Semantic Web
Web document (information resource)
Like everything on the traditional Web, each of the pages mentioned above are Web documents. Every Web document has its own URI. Note that a Web document is not the same as a file: a single Web document can be available in many different formats and languages, and a single…
URIs for things that are not web pages
Web documents have always been addressed with URIs (in common parlance often referred as Uniform Resource Locators, URLs). This is useful because it means we can easily make RDF statements about Web pages, but also dangerous because we can easily mix up Web pages and the…
Fragmentations
Fragmentions: linking to words in a page
What if instead we combined these two ideas: use a fragment to identify part of a page mention words in the page as the identifier I’ve named these “fragmentions” To tell these apart from an id link, I suggest using a double hash — ## for the fragment, and then words that…
Hamlet On The Holodeck
Incunabula: a technology in its infancy
In 1455, Gutemberg invented the printing press - but not the book as we know it. Books printed before 1501 are called incunabula; the word is derived from the Latin for swaddling clothes and is used to indicate that these books are the work of a technology still in its infancy…
Hypertext fiction: lexias and hyperlinks
The accessibility of the World Wide Web has introduced a growing audience to hypertext fiction. Hypertext is a set of documents of any kind (images, texts, charts, tables, video clips) connected to one another by links. Stories written in hypertext can be divided into scrolling…
Hypothes.is: A Kickstarter Project To Peer Review The Web | Techcrunch
Hypothes.is, peer review for the web
He proposes that Hypothes.is will work as a browser plug-in for Firefox, IE, and Chrome. It will add an overlay to Web pages with a heatmap along the side showing where people left comments. He wants to bring the best comments up from the bottom of most Web pages. People in the…
Iannotate — Whatever Happened To The Web As An Annotation System? | The Scholarly Kitchen
Challenges in digital annotation systems
There are significant challenges to digital annotation systems, particularly shared annotation systems. While server space was an issue with Mosaic in the 1990s, this isn’t the critical problem any longer, although at scale an annotation system does require some significant…
Power Systems: Conversations On Global Democratic Uprisings And The New Challenges To U.s. Empire
Reading a book is an intellectual exercise
And reading a book doesn’t just mean turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then…
Rdf Primer
RDF identifies with URIrefs, browsers retrieve
Both RDF and Web browsers use URIrefs to identify things. However, RDF and browsers interpret URIrefs in slightly different ways. This is because RDF uses URIrefs only to identify things, while browsers also use URIrefs to retrieve things. Often there is no effective…
Reframe It Retreads Web Annotation As A Browser Add-on | Techcrunch
Reframe It: web annotation in a side pane
Reframe It is a browser plug-in for Firefox or Internet Explorer that lets you highlight passages of text on a Web page and add your own comments in a side pane. Comment can be private, public, or visible only to certain groups. Anyone with the Reframe It plug-in can then see…
Shantaram (gregory David Roberts)
Karla's journal of fragments
Knowing that I shouldn’t, I turned through the pages and read her private thoughts. It wasn’t a diary. There were no dates on any of the pages, and there were none of the day-to-day accounts of things done and people met. Instead, there were fragments. Some of them were culled…
The Owlim Family Of Semantic Repositories
Owlim in the architecture at the bbc
OWLIM serves as the RDF store in the architecture facilitating metadata-based management, inference and retrieval of content. The metadata is added instantly to catch up with the stream of new content. Factual knowledge is updated constantly to reflect developments. The main…
What Do Http Uris Identify? - Design Issues
Uris for web pages vs uris for real world objects
HTTP URIs, in the web architecture, have been used to denote documents -- "web pages" informally, or "information resources" more formally. However, with the growth of the Semantic Web, which uses URIs to denote anything at all, the urge to use and practice of using HTTP URIs…