Collective Individuation : the Future of the Social Web / Yuk Hui and Harry Halpin

Towards a Philosophy of the Web: Representation, Enaction, Collective Intelligence

We present some initial forays into the questions that underlie the philosophy of the Web around the notions of representation, enactive search, the extended mind, and collective intelligence.

Social Semantics The Search for Meaning on the Web

Analysis of “Gol -o- Norooz” by Khwaju Kermani According to the Jungian Archetype of Individuation

Carl Gustav Jung, the   founder   of   the   analytical   psychology   in the twentieth century   believes    that   under   the   appearance   of   human   consciousness   exists   an eternal collective unconscious   which is   part   of   the   hereditary   psychological   factor   common in the entire human race. He successfully introduced   the common archetypes in the mythology of   the di...

Standardizing the Social Web: The W3C Social Web Activity

The focus of the Social Activity is on making “social” a first-class citizen of the Open Web Platform by enabling standardized protocols, APIs, and an architecture for standardized communication among Social Web applications. These technologies are crucial for both federated social networking and the success of social business between and within the enterprise.

The Ties that Bind XML, the Semantic Web, and Web Services

The future success of service-oriented computing relies on a number of crucial connections being made between three distinct Web development initiatives: XML, the Semantic Web, and Web Services. However, it is unclear how they relate to each other. A model that views XML as a serialisation format for data, with a combination of XML Schema and the Semantic Web for typing, and Web Services as fun...