Scripting News: Monday, May 20, 2024
Don't miss that Twitter has become a blogging platform. It's sad that it took this long. And we're still missing a bunch of features. #
In the 80s there were all kinds of ideas about how to do hypertext. Mostly they called for two-way links, so you could walk the graph in any direction you like. These were hard to implement and required the two parties work with each other, and that never happened. #
In the early 90s along comes Tim Berners-Lee, a random NextStep developer who wanted to play and he for whatever reason didn't wait to figure out how to boil the ocean with two-way links, he just did one-way links and instead of inventing a new protocol he just implemented it on top of TCP/IP. While the purists were debating its purity it took off, broke all records, made a lot of people very rich.#
A few years later, Tim Berners-Lee, the same guy who made the web, wants to layer a new protocol on top of the web -- the Semantic Web. He wanted people to be able to query the web the way you query a database. "show me all the widgets on sale in urbana for less than $20." Like that.#
It never happened for the same reason the two-way hyperlinks didn't, it required cooperation. You couldn't just throw together a demo in an afternoon as a fun side project like you could with the web (I speak from experience, my first success with the web took five freaking minutes). #
Now when Google or some other browser maker integrates ChatGPT-like functionality in their browser, as a side-effect, you will get TBL's Semantic Web. It won't require any cooperation and that's why it will work.#
Linkblog items for the day.
Scarlett Johansson says lawyers got OpenAI to shut down "Her" voice. axios.com
Trump choosing not to testify in his own defense should be a banner headline. presswatchers.org
Kingsley Uyi Idehen, working with ChatGPT, has a simple feed reader, using my blog's feed as an example. chatgpt.com
Cheez-It Opened the Cheez-In Diner in Woodstock, New York. foodandwine.com
Knicks 'gave everything they had,' come up short in Game 7. espn.com
Yes Apple is a soul crushing tech monopoly. And some group inside Apple did something creative that inspired debate and for some revulsion, and in the name of uniformity in artistic expression, the creativity was crushed. And Steve Jobs would've loved it, btw, imho. theguardian.com
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