[p2p-research] Fwd: Mozilla Labs Ubiquity and Linked Data

Sun Sep 7 11:45:01 CEST 2008

it would be really nice if someone could write up a summary for
non-technical laypeople, of why both projects are so important!!

many thanks for considering it!!

Michel

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Josef Davies-Coates <
josef at uniteddiversity.com> wrote:

> 2008/9/4 Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com>
>
>> Holy Sh**! this is awesome...
>>
>
>
> Quite :)
>
> See also:
> http://groups.google.com/group/esp/browse_thread/thread/49f5b923931aed16
>
> Actually, you need to be a member to see that so I'll copy it here (I think
> tav should do a call out on p2p foundation blog and have told him as much
> but to no avail as yet - he was worried he can't write in an academic enough
> style, although I pointed out not all articles on there are like that:
>
> Hey all,
>
> Bit by bit, the Plexnet dream is being realised =)
>
> Some of you may know about Mozilla Ubiquity:
>
> * http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/
>
> It's a Firefox extension that allows for commands to be written quite
> easily in Javascript -- a peer-to-peer application framework (based on
> doing mashups of web apps). They are still a way off but the core idea
> is pretty sound -- some of you may recall it as what I used to refer
> to as creating a command line for the internet...
>
> Then, earlier today, Google announced a new web browser (Google Chrome):
>
> * http://www.google.com/chrome
> * http://code.google.com/chromium/
>
> It's a pretty decent browser which uses Webkit (the same rendering
> engine as used by Safari/Konqueror/iPhone/new iPhones), a new
> super-fast javascript engine called V8 and a nice sandboxed feature
> which means that if one tab (web app) dies then your whole browser
> doesn't crash.
>
> Now, I was going to code up a minimal "Plexnet Browser" based on
> Webkit. But Chrome takes it a lot further -- including porting Webkit
> to Microsoft Windows. Ironically, they've only got a Windows build of
> Chrome available atm -- the Linux and OS X builds should appear before
> the end of the month.
>
> And, given the added features that Chrome offers, I'd like to shift
> the Plexnet Browser to take advantage of this. For simple reasoning,
> just check out the crazy performance advantage:
>
> * http://www.sfu.ca/~cyrille/news/CFM.gif<http://www.sfu.ca/%7Ecyrille/news/CFM.gif>
>
> Whilst I can do minimal wrapping of Webkit in Objective-C, I'm not a
> C++ coder, so am never going to be able to pull it off. Which is where
> you come in =)
>
> I need your help to do the following:
>
> # Add a Minimal Extensions support
>
> I spoke with Aaron Boodman -- the dude behind the GreaseMonkey Firefox
> extension. He's one of the main guys at the Google Chrome team
> responsible for Extensions. In his words, defining the Extensions
> framework for Chrome is wide open...
>
> Mozilla Ubiquity is a very simple extension -- it uses very little of
> Firefox's extensions mechanism. It's mainly just running some
> "chrome-privileged" javascript and interacting with the DOM. So from
> the Chrome Extensions support, all I really need is:
>
> * Sandboxed Extension execution -- check out the Sandboxed Plugins
> execution
> * Loading of "chrome-privileged" javascript
> * Access to the Renderer's DOM and making URI calls
> * Simple preferences pane for the Extension in HTML
>
> # Mplayer Plugin
>
> Native support for the Mplayer Plugin:
> http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
>
> Webkit's support for HTML 5's <video> and <audio> elements needs to be
> hijacked to be supported by all formats supported by the Mplayer
> Plugin's (or any plugin's for that matter) Javascript API. I'd be
> happy to work on the JS bit...
>
> # Removing of Bookmarks
>
> I find it surprising that they kept bookmarks -- it's like including
> floppy disk drives in today's computers! With Ubiquity and the
> capacity to dynamically add functionality like this -- e.g.
> integration with delicious, I see no reason for legacy bookmarking
> functionality.
>
> # Removing of Gears
>
> This is not a priority, so feel free to skip it. But, I'd like to have
> it removed if it is just sitting around wasting memory needlessly.
>
> Gears is in some ways a competitive element to some of the Plexnet
> protocols. But, sadly, it's a shit competitor. It's not defined in a
> peer-to-peer way at all. I spent a few days earlier this year trying
> to make it useful, but sadly it doesn't do anything that wouldn't be
> better enabled by the Ubiquity-esque extension support making calls to
> a local HTTP server.
>
> # Multi-Platform Build
>
> Chromium (the open source code base behind Chrome) should build on OS
> X and Linux in the next week or so. I'd like to have a build for the
> iPhone/iPodTouch as well -- incorporating any elements of the
> multi-touch events that might be missing from Apple's iPhone Safari
> implementation and Google's Android Webkit modification.
>
> A little bit of rebranding needs to take place for all builds as the
> "Plexnet Browser". By default, all builds should start up a Plexnet
> node in the background if one isn't already running. This is a Python
> 2.6 application that I will provide.
>
> ##
>
> Let me know what you can do for this -- every line of code would help.
> Thanks!! *kiss*
>
> --
> love, tav
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>
>
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen at openlinksw.com>
>> Date: Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:20 AM
>> Subject: Re: Mozilla Labs Ubiquity and Linked Data
>> To: public-lod at w3.org
>> Cc: semantic-web at w3.org, public-lod at w3.org
>>
>>
>>
>> Hausenblas, Michael wrote:
>>
>>> UPDATE: After a rather short night (I tell you, toying around with
>>> ubiquity is *really* addictive) there are now two more commands
>>> available: one for querying DBpedia (simple skos:subject on categories)
>>> and a curl HEAD command (should be self-explanatory).
>>>
>>> If you develop (Web of Data) commands as well, please consider
>>> announcing them on the Mozilla Wiki [1].
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>        Michael
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Commands_In_The_Wild#Web_Of_Data
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>>  Michael Hausenblas, MSc.
>>>  Institute of Information Systems & Information Management
>>>  JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
>>>   http://www.joanneum.at/iis/
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Here is our initial Ubiquity command for Linked Data which has the command
>> pattern: describe-page <URL>:
>> http://demo.openlinksw.com/ubiq/
>>
>> Of course there is more to come re. a generic SPARQL command etc..
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Kingsley Idehen       Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen<http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/%7Ekidehen>
>> President & CEO OpenLink Software     Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
>>
>>
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>> --
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