• From: Dave Pawson <davep@d...>
• To: Steve Newcomb <srn@c...>
• Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 18:28:21 +0100

On 18 May 2016 at 17:30, Steve Newcomb <srn@c...> wrote:
> My first thought is, of course, Topic Maps -- in idea that, at least in its
> original form, sprang directly out of HyTime, both syntactically and
> philosophically.  But this appears to be a bit different from the Topic Maps

It was the 'drag and drop' nature that led me to the hyTime link?
I could only think of links as the manner in which all the items could
be connected?


>
> It's a little hard to tell from Omnity's Terms and Conditions exactly what
> they're up to.  At least at first glance, this appears to be more like a
> kind of search engine, with the added wrinkles of license fees, and, I
> suspect, that the value of the licensee's knowledge-curation activities will
> remain exploitable by Omnity.  An intellectual Facebook, perhaps?
>
> What do you know about it, Dave?

Not much. Remember all the drag and drop web page apps that have
come and gone? My first thought was 'another one', perhaps with
a glamour add-on of the smartphone emphasis?

I wondered if anyone else had come across it?



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Just received Steven DeRose book.
See how understandable that is :-)

regards

• References:
  • HyTime cira 2016?
    • From: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@g...>
  • Re: HyTime cira 2016?
    • From: Steve Newcomb <srn@c...>