Today’s verbal delight features Semantic Web hacker (and philosopher) Tom Morris, initially talking about using XML to describe real-world things, mentioning the advantages of RDF. He then describes his experiences with the Ruby programming language, and offers thoughts on practical aspects of working in the distributed environment of the Web. Tom tells of ideas he has around using Bluetooth with RDF, before giving his opinion of platforms like Facebook, and related novel aspects of online gaming. He concludes by talking about his recent experience of organizing SemanticCamp London, and encouraging other people to try the BarCamp approach to conferences.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources:

• Tom Morris (blog)
• OPML 2.0, RelaxNG
• Google Contacts Data API
• tommorris / rena
• Rake (Ruby make), RSpec (Behaviour Driven Development framework for Ruby)
• Jena, rdflib
• NSFW: Not Safe For Work
• microformats, GRDDL
• Tim Berners-Lee
• git, github
• “Fork (software development)” on Wikipedia
• ID3 (Rhythm and blues/Contemporary R&B on Wikipedia)
• Colorado Benefits Management System
• SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System)
• SHA hash functions
• BlogTalk WebCamp SocialNetworkPortability
• LightBlue (cross-platform Python Bluetooth API)
• BlueFOAF: discover nearby friends with Bluetooth
• Dan Brickley, Dave Beckett, Matt Biddulph
• danbri’s MacBook Air
• Growl
• Inverse Functional Property
• SubEthaEdit
• Facebook, MySpace, OpenSocial
• AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy (Wikipedia links)
• Twitter, Dopplr
• Rails, Amazon EC2
• Pownce, Heroku
• Drupal and the opportunity of RDF, video
• EVE Online
• The profile attribute and GRDDL
• Dan Connolly
• URI-Based Extensibility
• Web 3.0 has checked into buzzword hotel…
• Semantic Web Aliases
• SemanticCamp, BarCamp, BarCampParis, BarCampBrighton
• SWIG (Semantic Web Interest Group), mailing list
• N3, DBpedia, Linking Open Data
• #swig on irc.freenode.net