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Propaganda, ResearchOctober 17, 2008 12:57 pm

What is Twitter Like?

A good (and concise) read for those who still think twitter is yet another chat protocol:

Twitter is like a blog except is it is only 140 characters
Twitter is a status update except it is viewable in lots of places
Twitter is like a giant chat room except you choose the people you follow
Twitter is like instant messaging except it’s public & archived online

(source: What is Twitter Like? « The Stratius Blog)

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Propaganda, Research 8:09 am

Paggr, a semantic mashup-enabled and sparql-based netvibes?

I just watched the teaser video of a new website called Paggr, and I must say that it looks exciting to me!


Paggr is a platform that allow users to create pages on which they add widgets, similarly to iGoogle or netvibes. The differences are that:

  • the widgets can gather data from semantic web services using the SPARQL language, and these widgets can thus be created directly on the platform
  • (semantic) data can be dragged & dropped from a widget to another, allowing a seemless mashup-enabled navigation between them.

I’m looking forward to get an invite for this platform in order to play with it!

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