Comments on: On Twitter Data http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/05/26/on-twitter-data/ Open Source, Modern Programming Languages, OS X, Photography, and ... Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:08:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Donnie Berkholz http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/05/26/on-twitter-data/comment-page-1/#comment-16246 Donnie Berkholz Sat, 30 May 2009 07:33:58 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/05/26/on-twitter-data/#comment-16246 Do they call it nanoformats, if it's just part of a microblog? Do they call it nanoformats, if it’s just part of a microblog?

]]> By: Four short links: 27 May 2009 | Tech-monkey.info Blogs http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/05/26/on-twitter-data/comment-page-1/#comment-16230 Four short links: 27 May 2009 | Tech-monkey.info Blogs Wed, 27 May 2009 15:38:46 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/05/26/on-twitter-data/#comment-16230 [...] Twitter Data — using Twitter as a conduit for messages that have semantic markup. My gut reaction is that I’d prefer pure JSON in the data tweets, because a hybrid gives you poor use of the limited bandwidth and there seems no strong reason to care about human readability. (via Ted Leung) [...] [...] Twitter Data — using Twitter as a conduit for messages that have semantic markup. My gut reaction is that I’d prefer pure JSON in the data tweets, because a hybrid gives you poor use of the limited bandwidth and there seems no strong reason to care about human readability. (via Ted Leung) [...]

]]> By: Todd Fast http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/05/26/on-twitter-data/comment-page-1/#comment-16223 Todd Fast Tue, 26 May 2009 22:23:56 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/05/26/on-twitter-data/#comment-16223 Actually, you're confusing the role of Twitter Data with the particular uses of Twitter Data. Microformats are a convention for presenting certain, specific types of data. This convention is built on top of a lower-level, well-defined syntax (HTML) which makes it possible to embed that data. Like HTML in the Microformats case, Twitter Data is one abstraction level lower, and concerned with making abstract data embeddable in Twitter in a natural and searchable way. What that data actually is, for example, a microsformat, JSON string, or Base64-encoded bits, is what Twitter Data enables, but not strictly what Twitter Data is about. Actually, you’re confusing the role of Twitter Data with the particular uses of Twitter Data. Microformats are a convention for presenting certain, specific types of data. This convention is built on top of a lower-level, well-defined syntax (HTML) which makes it possible to embed that data.

Like HTML in the Microformats case, Twitter Data is one abstraction level lower, and concerned with making abstract data embeddable in Twitter in a natural and searchable way. What that data actually is, for example, a microsformat, JSON string, or Base64-encoded bits, is what Twitter Data enables, but not strictly what Twitter Data is about.

]]> By: rgz http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/05/26/on-twitter-data/comment-page-1/#comment-16221 rgz Tue, 26 May 2009 20:32:11 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/05/26/on-twitter-data/#comment-16221 In other words microformats. In other words microformats.

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