Software development industry analysis by Larry O'Brien, the former editor of Software Development and Computer Language
Thursday, October 30, 2003

I just visited Text America's PDC Photoblog and saw Don Box's face smiling out at me. I wonder how to make photo blogs more useful. Thanks to those of you who posted photos. via [The Scobleizer Weblog]

This is why I ended up generating FOAF from Outlook the other day. My thought is that photoblogs become much, much more useful when tied to an easy annotation system that asserts XML-based metadata, perhaps FOAF and RDF, perhaps something else (one of the gajillion WinFS schemas discussed at the PDC?). Equally, once you've licked this problem, you don't just have a photoblog tool, you have a foundation for a generally-useful tool:

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