http://alchemy.openjava.org/ Internet Alchemy en http://alchemy.openjava.org/images/alchemylogo.gif http://alchemy.openjava.org/ 88 31 Internet Alchemy http://alchemy.openjava.org/ Welcome to all Daily Telegraph readers who are visiting here, hoping to find out more about a wireless networking group referred to in today's edition of the paper. The site that today's article should have referred to is WapWednesday, a must-visit event for all wireless developers, entrepreneurs and investors. Say hi to Grant and tell him that Ian sent you! http://alchemy.openjava.org/ Work has started on the next version of OCS. We're discussing it right now on the Internet Alchemy list. Topics up for discussion include whether to keep RDF or not and how best to include classification information for each channel. So, if you have an interest in OCS or are using it as part of your site it'd be great to hear your comments on the list. http://alchemy.openjava.org/ Yes, you might have noticed a few things changing around here. Excuse the dust while things settle down... http://alchemy.openjava.org/ I'm very dissatisified with the web right now. I'm so busy at the moment that I rarely get time to surf like I used to - instead, I keep up to date via mailing lists and email with friends. That's why, as an experiment, I've set up an Internet Alchemy mailing list. From now on, I'll be posting all the stuff that used to go on this site to the mailing list instead. So if you're interested in Internet development, especially the emerging new technologies and standards such as XML, WAP and Syn... http://alchemy.openjava.org/ Nokia has announced it's new wap server with increased scalability, snmp management and a generic wap email gateway that interfaces to corporate mail systems such as Exchange, Lotus Notes as well as POP3 and IMAP4 mail systems. Also, they have taken a leaf out of Ericsson's book and included a cookie proxy to help sites implement effective session based applications. http://alchemy.openjava.org/ Waptastic has announced a expansion of it's developer site. Rather than just focussing on WAP they'll be covering Bluetooth, webclipping and other wireless technologies and will be producing a set of in depth training guides for wireless developers. http://alchemy.openjava.org/ Gus writes "CGI::WAP, a subclass of LDS's CGI.pm for WML output and WAP methods is now available at http://wap.z-y-g-o.com/tools/ Please note that this supercedes Wap.pm at the same location, which should no longer be used. Comments welcome." This looks fun - it makes writing WML from Perl a cinch. http://alchemy.openjava.org/ This is so different it just has to work: Chrome URL plates, designed to be fixed to the rear of the car. http://alchemy.openjava.org/ AnalogX has an amazing array of free applications for network analysis and information gathering including a nifty little whois client. http://alchemy.openjava.org/ The hyperlink is the Web's killer feature - will the news feed be XML's? reads the strapline of Weaving the Web of News, a new article at Web Reference about using XML for syndicating news content. It covers all the basics including RSS, OCS and ICE (xmlNews is to be covered in a future article). We're left with a taster of future developments: Watch out for the arrival of RSS at WebReference http://alchemy.openjava.org/ James Carlyle writes "I've recently come across three semantic networks which might be of interest to XML developers. A semantic network is a series of links between senses of words, with the links being hypernyms, synonyms etc. 1. Signiform's ThoughtTreasure, which contains 25,000 concepts, 55,000 English and French words and phrases and 50,000 assertions. 2. Princeton University's WordNet is far more ambitious and older, and contains 173,941 senses. An XML interface to WordNet ha... http://alchemy.openjava.org/ I posted this as an Ask Slashdot today, but in case it doesn't get picked here it is: The Open Directory project is an outstanding success, driven by thousands of volunteer editors and used by 120 affiliate sites including Hotbot, AltaVista and Infospace. Netscape/AOL own the copyright on the collection and they choose to license the content under a GPL-like license. So what motivates the editors of the directory? They freely contribute their time and energy to contribute to a collection o... http://alchemy.openjava.org/ WebWatch is a project to monitor and analyse various aspects of the web. Some tools have been made available for public use including a robots.txt checker, an HTTP info viewer and a document analyser that returns piles of information about numbers of HTTP connections made, sizes of documents, distribution of HTML tags and even which links are broken. http://alchemy.openjava.org/ The Wireless Developer Network is a new site for developers of software for WAP, mobile devices and wireless lans. They already have several interesting articles including: Will WAP Complicate Our Lives? and An Introduction to Bluetooth. http://alchemy.openjava.org/ Now this looks like a great idea - it sticks over the Graffiti area of your Palm and behaves like a mini keyboard without obscuring half the display like the software one does.