“Under laws due to come into force at the beginning of next year, but likely to be delayed until April for the UK, companies posing as consumers on fake blogs, providing fake testimonies on consumer rating websites such as TripAdvisor, or writing fake book reviews on Amazon risk criminal or civil liability.”
Google is making waves in the social networking pond this morning with an as-yet-unofficial announcement about a new site-independent API, OpenSocial, that aims to make it easier to connect your profile and friends across social networks.
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/10/google-cracks-o.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/21/google-to-out-open-facebook-on-november-5/
http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKN3043165520071031
An interesting direction for the dub-dub-dub:
“The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which web content can be expressed not only in natural language, but also in a format that can be read and used by software agents, thus permitting them to find, share and integrate information more easily.”
Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
http://www.semanticweb.org/