Reading this article today, i realized that there’s a project for making a semantic desktop. The project is called NEPOMUK (Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge, easy to remember huh ? :S) it’s slogan “The Social Semantic Desktop”.So there you have it the perfect mix, you have web 2.0 + Social + open source + desktop = 11.500.000 EUR funding :P. This sort of things have a lot of potential if you know exactly what you are doing and you have a balance of theoric and practical knowledge, use ontologies just because it’s interesting and difficult doesn’t make any sense. As always people at KDE already have an implementation of this (because it’s like making UI_Components++, and that’s what kde developers know to do…. :P) here it’s a video about kde’s approach,

We know that taggin’ things by hand just doesn’t work, people prefer (and i think it’s sane think like that) being outside with friends or family instead of taggin’ photos or files. Because gnome it’s about simplicity, there’s a google soc project that it’s doing face detection for f-spot. So later you could search in beagle a pic of your girlfriend and you in January 07 instead of digging around of 10GB of pics. Probably (with the help of an ontology relation maybe) beagle will also show a conversation of you and your girlfriend (in january 2007), where your girlfriend reminds you that if you ever forget that her birthday on june the 23th he will kill you (typically *sight*). So if you don’t want your gf slapping you stay tuned to what happens in NEPOMUK!

In other news i just updated my wordpress installation and it seems that i lost my blogroll and i think the WYSIWYG editor is broken and remember use gnome or you will loose your girlfriend