A Unified Abstraction for Messaging on the Semantic Web

d Abstraction for Messaging on the Semantic Web Dennis Quan IBM Internet Technology 1 Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 USA [e-mail] Karun Bakshi MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 200 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 USA [e-mail] David Karger MIT Laboratory for Computer Science 200 Technology Square Cambridge, MA 02139 USA [e-mail] Since its inception, the Internet has been a hotbed of several successful communications channels, starting off with e-mail, Internet Relay Chat and Usenet newsgroups and more recently adding Web annotation, instant messaging, and news feeds. However, these channels were developed fairly independently, and in many cases their respective functionalities have grown to overlap significantly. For instance, users of these systems have separate identifiers for e-mail, chat, and instant messaging, and clients for these systems all have their own implementations of threaded message views. We believe these problems stem ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Dennis Quan, Karun Bakshi, David R. Karger
• Keywords: Disparate Messaging Paradigms, Instant Messaging, Internet Technology, Technology Square Cambridge, WWW 2003