Interesting article about the Semantic Web written by James Simmons about RDF VS Microformats.
Before some quotes from the article, some really basic information about Microformats:

Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Instead of throwing away what works today, microformats [...]

I’ve just come across a very interesting article from the Times Online about the next 20 years of the Internet, they seem to do a little confusion of the WEB and the Internet but still it is interesting:

[...]the web will be able to connect every aspect of our digital lives – be it a website, [...]

World Usability Day was founded to ensure that the services and products
important to life are easier to access and simpler to use.
Even if this year the theme is health, it is a good time to check our website for usability issues, more and more visitors expect to have an usable website (also in terms of [...]

Peter Patel-Schneider – Explanation of the right way of creating the Semantic Web during a Google TechTalks.
It’s a fairly old (thigs aren’t going so fast in that field anyway) but the main idea are still very interesting: “why building Semantic languages (RDF , RDFs, OML, …) is broken?”.

Ahmet

It’s with a lot of pleasure that I’m working on the organization of the Adobe European User Group Tour that will make a stop at our local User Group. Our meeting will take place on November 16th and will focus on Adobe AIR and the future of the Adobe Flash Platform.
I’ve you live in the [...]

Daniel Dura has posted on his blog two presentations (introduction to AIR & Flex 3) he made during some events (AIR tour & MAX).
Along with his presentations is an archive of Flex Builder project, that contain most of the code he showed.
Here is the list of sources you’ll find in the archive:
Application Icons
File Icons
HTML Display
Local [...]

First link by Mark Coppock, he wrote notes about most of the sessions that took place during MAX. His note are full of links and really worth the read!
If you are more a vizual guys than a reader then head to Peter Elest’s blog where you can find a lot of Sneak Peeks videos:
Flash “Next”
Flash [...]

I usually try not to forward “prediction”, but this one is interesting:
In April 07, there had been rumors that google invested in a China-based free browser Maxthon. But then later on denied by both Maxthon and Google. Recently, there has been some more rumor about Google’s interest in such project after they register a domain [...]

[via beedigital]
Watch this video, the future of Flash is really cool, Flash is heading more and more to complex MC interaction and 3D:
Live video rendering on stage
3D + filters
Live Timeline visualization: Beziers Path for animation!!!
Path can be saved for other MC
Skeleton structures for movie clips (drawing an animated arms in 3 sec !!!)

I really hope [...]

One more interesting tool was presented during MAX 2007 Chicago: Ribbit Phone a “Phone API for Flex” allowing us to develop application that can call phone.
Lot of information and links to other media
API Documentation
Ahmet