So What Does Faviki Do?

Glad you asked! Faviki enables Web users to remove the ambiguity of their social bookmarks and bridge the gap between tags and meaning.  By improving a user’s ability to find their place on the Web, Faviki also enriches the concept of a keyword search by insuring that the link between a keyword and the meaning behind it remain unambiguous.  Furthermore, Faviki restores much of the value of social bookmarking by maintaining the uniformity of “placeholders” all over the Web.

How Does Faviki Work?

Faviki works in conjunction with two collaborative Web initiatives, DBpedia and Wikipedia, to ensure semantic tagging of bookmarks. The use of DBpedia, which extracts structured Wikipedia entries, allows users to see the relationship between a tag and its meaning. Upon opting to bookmark a Web resource, Faviki leverages Zemanta to recommend commonly used semantic tags, as well as a Google Tag search of DBpedia to enable users to search tags with entries in Wikipedia. Used in conjunction these resources uphold the bookmark’s “object-concept” relationship. Furthermore, integration of the Delicious and Twitter APIs allow users to embrace social media and import bookmarks from Delicious as well as share their Faviki bookmarks on Twitter.

How Can Faviki Help Me?

By embodying a Semantic social bookmarking service, Faviki provides you with a tool to bookmark resources you find on the Web and retain their meaning by relating those tags to Wikipedia concepts.

• Simplicity – Tagging a bookmark in Faviki becomes especially simple due to to the semantic tag recommendation and search systems and concise user interface.
• Social Media – Integration with Twitter gives you the an easy option to share bookmarks on Twitter and let your followers know where you’re leaving Web placeholders.
• Eliminate Ambiguity – Semantic tagging means the tag you you’ve placed on a bookmark is backed by a clear and comprehensive concept in Wikipedia.
• Eliminate Redundancy – The ability to import bookmarks from Delicious means you don’t have to switch tools or bookmark twice or change tools or bookmark again.
• Power Search – Searching for a keyword on the Faviki homepage essentially amounts to a search of  all tagged Web resources on a given Wikipedia entry, as deemed by the collective Faviki community.

How Do I Use Faviki?

• Register for a Faviki account (free) and drag-and-drop the Faviki bookmarklet onto your browser’s bookmark toolbar.

User Homepage and Setup

1. Log into your user account and you’ll be presented with your homepage.
   • Delicious users : On the homepage, select Import then Delicious Account settings, to link to your delicious profile and import your bookmarks. Faviki will give you the option to convert your tags to a common tag equivalent.
     • Note to Yahoo! users: OAuth implementation has not yet been implemented, but to import your last 100 bookmarks put #import in the password section.
   • Twitter users: Under edit profile, you’ll find the option for Twitter Account Settings, enter your information and your good to go.
2. Back to the homepage and you’ll see:
   1. A list of your bookmarks.
   2. A user profile box with a tag cloud and your Faviki friends.
   3. A list of categories for all the bookmarks on page.
3. Faviki Search : Users can search Faviki for specific users, tags, and any combinations thereof.
   1. People field
   2. Tags field
   3. Google search
   4. Search button
   5. Searching by any tag (OR) or all tags (AND)

Bookmarking!

Navigate to the Web resource you’re looking to bookmark.

• I’ll use the homepage of Cu3er, a free flash slider, as an example

1. Click the Faviki bookmarklet button on your toolbar.
2. From the Faviki tagging window, a list of Zemanta recommended tags appears, I’ll select some of the tags, and then click edit bookmark.
3. I’ll choose to leave the Bookmark title as it is.  I also want to leave the bookmark public so I won’t check the box marked private.
4. Under the Add Some Text From Page Tab, I’ll add some descriptive text from the “About Cu3er” page.
5. Under the Add A Personal Note tab, I’ll add some personal text for me on why I bookmarked Cu3er.
6. Clicking Save will save the bookmark to my Faviki profile.
7. I click Close and my bookmarking experience is complete!

Developers

Faviki offers developers an API should you wish to develop a website or online application and need a way to save or edit bookmarks.

In A Nutshell

Faviki offers a quick and easy way to save bookmarks, semantically tag them, search for new bookmarks related to tags, and share Web resources on Twitter. As a free bookmarking service, Faviki offers you the ability to contribute to the Semantic Web initiative and indirectly to Wikipedia. Faviki will only continue to grow as more and more users tag their favorite pages and edit Wikipedia entries.  As a user, Faviki provides a semantic bookmark opportunity for as many sites as their are on the Web, and that as we know is limitless.

Social Bookmark Tagging with a Semantic Twist, Faviki!

Other Helpful Articles on Faviki:

• Faviki: Social Bookmarking for 2010 by Henry Store
• Auto-Tag Delicious Bookmarks and Share Them Easily On Twitter With Faviki by Mahendra Palsule
• Faviki Wiki

The post Semantic Web In Action – Faviki first appeared on David Kuhta.

So What Does CodeIgniter Do?

In short, “give you the tools and groundwork to write PHP programs.” CodeIgniter reduces the amount of overhead and foundational programming required to construct a Web application by providing developers with a logically constructed set of libraries for common tasks in addition to a simple interface. Furthermore, CodeIgniter leverages its small footprint and thorough documentation to facilitate rapid deployment of a PHP Web application.

How Does CodeIgniter Work?

CodeIgniter holds loosely to the Model-View-Controller approach to application architecture, striking a middle-ground between strict convention and no framework at all, while maintaining the separation of presentation and logic. An installation of CodeIgniter contains an application framework that would utilize this systematic flow of data:

What makes CodeIgniter different?

• Controller functions will denote paths and routes > example.com/class/function/id/
• Data related concepts are placed in models
• Models are not required – An understandably contentious point for MVC purists
• Views control everything visible to the end user

Architectural Goals*:

• Dynamic Instantiation. In CodeIgniter, components are loaded and routines executed only when requested, rather than globally. No assumptions are made by the system regarding what may be needed beyond the minimal core resources, so the system is very light-weight by default. The events, as triggered by the HTTP request, and the controllers and views you design will determine what is invoked.
• Loose Coupling. Coupling is the degree to which components of a system rely on each other. The less components depend on each other the more reusable and flexible the system becomes. Our goal was a very loosely coupled system.
• Component Singularity. Singularity is the degree to which components have a narrowly focused purpose. In CodeIgniter, each class and its functions are highly autonomous in order to allow maximum usefulness.

*Denoted in the User Guide

How Can CodeIgniter Help Me?

In providing a robust set of Web application tools, CodeIgniter allows you to focus on developing the intricacies of your application and saves you the headache of starting from scratch. For both the budding and advanced PHP developer, a framework rapidly speeds up the development process.  On the other hand, knowledge of the CodeIgniter architecture will also alllow you to customize open source applications built using CodeIgniter.

From a development standpoint CodeIgniter will help you if your looking for any or all of these:

• Apache/BSD-style open source license :: Free to use as you wish.
• Light-Weight & Fast :: Core system needs only a few libraries and others are loaded dynamically based on your applications requests.
• M-V-C Architecture :: Separate application presentation and logic.
• Clean URLS :: Search friendly segmented approach
• Robust :: Packed full of libraries that enable common tasks (Database, email delivery, form data validation, session maintenance, image manipulation) and more.
• Extensible :: Plugins and helper libraries available in addition to class extensions or system hooks.
• No Template Engine Required ::  A simple template parser is included but not necessary.
• Documentation :: Source Code is extremely well documented and an extensive “User Guide” is available both online and included with the source code.
• Community :: A large, friendly group of CodeIgniters help, teach, and collaborate in the CodeIgniter Community Forums.

Example applications & sites built with CodeIgniter:

• Content Management System :: ExpressionEngine
• Invoice Management :: BambooInvoice*
• Room Bookings :: Classroombookings*
• Help System & Documentation :: Knowledge Base Script*
• Social Network :: Wittygraphy
• Blog :: Open Blog*
• Q&A Site :: MindZinger
• Stock Portfolio Analysis :: Stockalicious

*source code available

How Do I use CodeIgniter?

Assuming you’ve already searched for “<Your application function> CodeIgniter” (why reinvent the wheel?) and your looking to develop your own PHP Web application on CodeIgniter:

• Download the latest version of CodeIgniter
• Follow the installation instructions from the User Guide
• Print Copies of the CodeIgniter Cheatsheets
• Get coding!

Still looking for help?

• Watch the official CodeIgniter Intro and Create Blog in 20 Minutes tutorial videos
• Check out the CodeIgniter User Guide
• Check out the CodeIgniter Wiki
• Ask for help in the CodeIgniter Forums
• Check out the Source Code from some of the applications listed above.
• Order a copy of CodeIgniter 1.7 by Jose Argudo
• Check out 40+ CodeIgniter Framework Tutorials

Note: EllisLab provides the community with special non-staff position called the CodeIgniter Community Chieftain (currently Jamie Rumbelow) who “helps maintain the forums, wiki, and the bug tracker, and acts as a public liaison to the EllisLab development team when necessary.”

In A Nutshell

CodeIgniter provides a wealth of opportunity for PHP developers by enabling. Personally, I use BambooInvoice and have found it to be both simple to use and elegant in results. Furthermore, with the backing of EllisLab, I’m confident CodeIgniter can only gain more ground in the PHP frameworks community. With its small footprint, robust framework, extensive libraries, helpful community forums, and well documented user guide, CodeIgniter lays a firm foundation from which developers can focus on what they do best…developing.

Keep Your Code Hot With CodeIgniter!

The post Open Source PHP Framework – CodeIgniter first appeared on David Kuhta.

So What Does Triplify Do?

In short, Expose Semantics! Triplify provides for a knowledge representation of relational data and makes the content available in RDF, JSON or Linked Data form.  Furthermore, Triplify leverages its lightweight structure, a few files totaling less than 500 lines of code, to insure rapid deployment, reuse, and ease of implementation.

How Does Triplify Work?

Triplify capitalizes on the connections inherent in relational database queries, to retrieve data according to the queries of your choice and convert them to:

• RDF
• JSON
• Linked Data.

Generally, a minor 3 to 7 queries generates the majority of valuable information. After extracting database data, Triplify software constructs a shareable RDF, JSON or Linked Data semantic representation.

How Can Triplify Help Me?

Beyond simply preparing a semantic representation of your database on the Web, Triplify turns your Web Application into a data source for use in conjunction with other sources of data across the Web.

Notable uses include:

Semantic Search

• Sindice – A Semantic Web document index

Mashups

• Yahoo! Pipes – Pipe designer can utilize instances of Triplify as a data source.
• Simile Potluck – Mash Triplify data sources [No Programming Required!]
• Programmableweb – DB of API’s for use in conjunction with Triplify

Data Browsing

• OpenLink RDF Browser
• Tabulator
• Exhibit
• JSON Output – Access Triplify data without a parser
  • append ?t-output=json to any Triplify URI

Publishing Update Logs

• Publish a hierarchically structured update log as linked data.

Application Advantages:

• Search engines can better evaluate the content and more easily find content.
• Different application instances can easily syndicate dynamic content without the needing interfaces, content representations.
• Ability to create custom-tailored niche search engines. Easy searching for a product with certain characteristics.

How Do I use Triplify?

• Download and extract the Triplify script to your Web application.
• Create a Triplify configuration file according to your application.
  • Customizing the SQL queries to select information you wish to extract.
• Ensure the script registers your application instance with the Triplify registry so that it can be found by other Web applications.
• Enjoy your contribution to the Semantic Web initiative!

Check out the RDF data source for DavidKuhta.com at the Triplify Registry!

– Modeled after the WordPress configuration file below

Community contributed configuration files for some major Web applications:

• WordPress 2.7+ : by Andrei Mihăilă
• OpenConf 2.0 : by Sören
• Drupal 5.x : by David
• WackoWiki 4.2 : by Sören
• OpenJournalSystems 2.0 : by Sören
• Joomla! :  by Le Phuoc
• osCommerce : by Elias
• OMDB : by Sören
• phpBB : by Elias
• Gallery : by Elias

Important Considerations:

• Privacy – Triplify is accessing your database! Be judicious in your queries, insuring that only the data that is accessible to the web is accessible to Triplify.
  • Triplify recommends creating a separate “Triplify” database user for whom only read access is granted.
• Beta – As of this writing, Triplify v0.7 is still in beta and as any beta software still has some kinks to work through.
• Performance – Triplify currently caters to small to medium size apps, but retains the ability to cache for more extensive applications

Developers:

Triplify strongly encourages developers to become a part of the Triplify Community, and welcomes contributions of any kind. So, if you’re looking for an opportunity to contribute to a Semantic Web initiative, here’s your opportunity.

In A Nutshell

Triplify ‘semantifies’ the web, providing developers with a resource to semantically extract relational database information and make it available to the Semantic Web.  With its lightweight code, robust structuring, and ease of use, Triplify proves to be a valuable Semantic blocks for Web Applications. Likewise, Triplify’s approach in bypassing the chicken-and-egg dilemma of “simultaneously lacking of semantic representations and semantics-conscious Web search facilities” makes a push for the Semantic Web, today!

Simplify Semantics with Triplify!

The post Semantic Web In Action – Triplify first appeared on David Kuhta.

So What Does OpenAmplify do?

Put simply, Amplify Meaning.  OpenAmplify identifies the parts of speech in text and captures indicators of emotional meaning. By utilizing OpenAmplify, text can be analyzed from a semantic standpoint while retaining the ability to look at meaning of the underlying content.

How Does OpenAmplify Work?

OpenAmplify analyzes text content from any source using language processing technology and returns different ‘signals‘ in an XML structure.

5 different text analyses exist to chose from individually, but the option to amplify text using all analyses is available as well.

Analyses of the text include:

• The Topic Analysis – Which returns topical signals including a positive or negative perception (polarity) and degree to which guidance is sought (guidance).
• The Action Analysis – Which returns signals related to actions detected in the text including the likelihood of the action being taken (decisiveness), degree to which guidance is sought (guidance) and time when the action might take place (temporality).
• The Style Analysis – Which returns stylistic signals indicating how elaborate and decorative the linguistics are (flamboyancy) as well as the degree to which the text invokes slang vocabulary (slang).
• The Demographic Analysis – Which returns the likely age, gender and education level of the text’s author or audience.
• The TopicIntentions Analysis – Which  reports topics with associated action signals (A hybridization of Topic and Action).

Upon submission, OpenAmplify returns an XML structure, denoting an amplification of the content corresponding to the desired analysis.

How Can OpenAmplify Help Me?

OpenAmplify provides a tool and resource for both individuals and corporations.

Distinct uses for OpenAmplify include:

• Online Advertising – By enabling advertisers, publishers and ad networks to monitor brand safety, reputation management, targeting and SEO online through real-time content analysis in XML structure which can be dynamically incorporated and acted upon.
• News Analytics – By providing a qualitative data component, generated from precision amplification of topic representation, to a quantitative news flow.
• Blog post-tagging and comment analysis – By providing feedback for content generators on the tone and structure of their language and writing style, bloggers can know how to tag their posts and how readers perceived it via comments.

How Do I use OpenAmplify?

However you want! Currently OpenAmplify hosts an OpenAmplify repository of applications built by the OpenAmp Team and community users. Two Notable applications include: TweetyPants and the OpenAmplify Gmail Add-On (which requires Grease Monkey).

To use OpenAmplify for a personal web service like the Gmail Add-On or a Drupal plugin, you will need to:

1. Join the OpenAmplify community.
2. Go Edit Profile, and copy your OpenAmplify API Key to enter in any OpenAmplify applications of your choice.

Note: OpenAmplify provides 1,000 free “transactions” per day, once you’ve registered for your free API key. This proves generous enough for the average user. A premium service is available to individuals and organizations looking for responses in excess of that.

Can’t find that perfect tool to meet your text amplification need? Amp it yourself!

OpenAmplify offers a wide range of tutorials and developer resources. ranging from code samples, tutorials, and documentation to help you construct that perfect application. I’m currently developing a free OpenAmplify WordPress plugin for semantic tagging and linguistic text feedback, so if your a WordPress blogger, hold tight, there’s a solution in the works!

In A Nutshell

All in all, OpenAmplify is pretty unique in its construct and contribution to the Semantic Web.  The vast array of solutions and web applications it offers are powerful. Furthermore, interface with an API offers the web community a sure fire way to amplify content as best they see fit. If your looking to take your content generation and analysis to a whole new level and see what it really means, give it a try.

OpenAmplify is ready for you, Loud and Clear.

The post Semantic Web in Action – OpenAmplify first appeared on David Kuhta.

So what can you integrate with Apture?

Well some things are better left done than said (click on the links):

• Documents
• Images
• Video
• Maps
• Audio
• References
• People
• News Articles
• Links to Websites
• All of The Above

Apture even assists in embedding content directly into the content:

How does Apture work?

Apture does all this by dynamically aggregating information from 50+ sources including:

• Documents: SlideShare, Google Books, and Scribd
• Images: Flickr, Yahoo Image Search, Wikimedia Commons, and Bing Image Search
• Video: YouTube, Reuters, Truveo, Dailymotion, Hulu, Comedy Central, ESPN, and Metavid
• Maps: Google Maps
• Audio: National Public Radio
• References: Wikipedia, Amazon, CrunchBase, U.S. Congress, and IMDB
• People: Twitter, LinkedIn, and U.S. Congress
• News: Daylife, Reuters, Guardian, NYTimes, Washington Post, and BBC News

How Can Apture Help My Site?

For the publisher, Apture elimates much of the fieldwork in searching for relevant content and media, and reduces it to a concise search for a relevant term. Furthermore, Apture works not only on WordPress but on other blogging platforms as well, notably: Typeface, Ning, Drupal, Blogger, and Movable Type.

How Do I Use Apture?

The first step is to goto the Apture site and download the plugin (WordPress users can also install the plugin directly from the backend of their blog after a quick search for ‘Apture’).  For your first use, after installing and activating the plugin, you’ll be prompted to create an account with Apture.  After logging in and linking your domain to your site, the dynamic fun begins.  Two new buttons will appear in the “upload/insert” section of the visual editor for your posts:

• Add Apture Link 
• Add Apture Embed

Clicking on either of these (While having text selected for ‘Add Apture Link’) brings up the Apture editing  hub allowing you to search for a term and adding your content accordingly :

After selecting the relevant content, click “Create Embed” and bam! your done.  Check out your post on the frontend and enjoy the fact that users aren’t being led away from your site every time you want to provide them with external content

In A NutShell

A free service with the capabilities of a premium plugin, Apture offers rapid integration of content and creates another layer of user experience that can be rivaled.  Coupled with the large array of contents feeding the apture search, you’ll be sure to find that perfect media complement to your own content.

Looking forward to hearing how Apture is enriching the way you post!

The post Semantic Web In Action – Apture first appeared on David Kuhta.

Simplicity: WordPress removes numerous complications of Blogging

• Hosting – Don’t have a web host? WordPress will set you up with a free blog on their own servers.
• Installation – A 5 minute install…yeah you have to see it to believe it.
• Content Generation – A quick links drop-down for new “post, page, comment, draft, and upload” make creation of new content right at your fingertips.WYSIWYG – Post editing is done in a WYSIWYG environment with easy access to buttons for embedding images, text, or music.

Intuitive Functionality: No round pegs shoved in square holes!

• User Interface – WordPress gives publishers the freedom to determine how content should be organized and structured for their viewers.  Is the page content static? Create a page. Dynamic? Create a post.
• Administrative Structure – WordPress provides an impressive dashboard on the backend of the site.  It’s modular structure allows you to dictate what you want displayed and where you want to see it.
• Content Organization – The Post Visual Editor provides a basic a multitude of basic text editing function at first glance but the ‘kitchen sink’ is only a click away providing an array of more complex text and media formatting options.
  
  For the more programming saavy developer, WordPress offers the ability to hardcode html for a post only a tab away.
• User Experience – WordPress blogs are easy to surf. Period. WordPress worked hard to ensure that tagging, post categorization, media galleries, search bars, and themeing capabilities are all available to blog publishers so that they can determine how they wish to showcase their content to the world.

Highly Extensible: Communal Collaboration

• Themeing – Don’t like the way the default WordPress theme looks, change it in the backend. Custom-built, Free, or premium there is definitely a theme that meets your blogging needs and can be easily tweaked for that added element of personalization.
• Plugins – An elegant connection to the WordPress interface, plugins offer blog publishers the ability to add features to WordPress that aren’t necessarily built in.  What’s that translate into…if you can think it, there’s probably already a plugin.  SEO, Web Development, News Tracking, Social Media, and Graphical Design are just a few niche areas which plugins are being created for.  Don’t expect to have to reach in your pocket either, although there are premium plugins available, there are thousands of free ones as well.
• Widgets – A similar idea to plugins, Widgets enable blog publishers to display custom sidebar content and determine their arrangement on the page, without having to delve into all the nitty gritty coding.
• Everything Else -WordPress is Open Source and that means accessible.  Assuming your hosting your own WordPress Blog and not on WordPress.com, you have the ability to edit any and all the WordPress files which construct your blog.  This freedom allows you to change WordPress to meet your needs, conform to your ideas, and remain dynamic.  In addition, the WordPress community collaborates extensively to provide support and ideas, so if you do generate your own WordPress extension see if it’s possible to share some part of the that with the community.

So that’s WordPress, simple, intuitive, and extensible.  Good Luck in your own blogging endeavors and thanks for reading!

The post Laying The Groundwork first appeared on David Kuhta.