I’ve been doing some research on a project that has been bouncing around in my head since my Vegas trip last year (yes I know that statement is pretty cryptic), and bumped into an old post (May 21, 2003) by Tim Bray. The post is about his RDF.Net Challenge, where the first person or organization that presents him with a RDF-based app that he would actually want to use on a regular basis, and has the potential to spread virally, he would sign over the domain RDF.Net. The deadline for this contest is Jan 1, 2006. It may be a tight deadline to get enough momentum going by the end of the year to win this contest, but I think I have something that will win this contest. I can’t really discuss exactly what I’ve got in mind (at least until I get this thing going), but it will be open source, implemented on the .Net framework, be based on RDF (obviously), related to Dare’s Folksonomies, Taxonomies and Metacrap post, and my TIVO For Blogging post, and scare the hell out of Thomson Corp. The thing that might be hard to do is to get Tim (a Sun employee) to actually use a .Net app (hey, it will be open source, so some Java open source developer can port it, that would be a good change, have a .Net app ported to Java).
I wonder what blogging engine Tim uses? Probably home grown. Hmm. Yet another little obstacle.