Recent Bookmarks 15-May-2009

XQuery in the Browser
Ghislain Fourny, Markus Pilman, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Tim Kraska, Darin McBeath
Paper presented at the 18th International World Wide Web Conference, Madrid, April 2009.
“[P]rogramming the browser involves mostly XML (i.e., DOM) navigation and manipulation, and the XQuery family of W3C standards were designed exactly for that purpose.”

Puzzling: How Observations Are Accumulated Into Context
Jeff Jonas, 24 November 2008
“If the goal is to make substantially more sense of data – the only way forward is CONTEXT ACCUMULATION. … I have been feverishly looking for a better way to explain in plain English how real-time, streaming, contextualization works.  The very best analogy I have come up with to date is that of assembling jigsaw puzzles. The parallels are uncanny.”

Failing business models for user-generated content
Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation, 28 April 2009
“An important question for the future is: if such business model failing turns out to be permanent, and corporations stop financing the platforms, what do we do? The answer points to distributed infrastructures, where cost can be spread over vast numbers of people …”