My posting rate is lower and lower as days pass. It is not an illusion, it is the sad reality.

What is happening? Many things! It is the reason why I am quiet these days. I am currently working hard on the next version of Talk Digger. In fact, I am not really working a new version; I am working on a totally new piece of software.

What is new?

Everything and nothing. It is the same services, without any real innovation. But it is everything because it is a much more robust system, the Ajax interface is working on Internet Explorer / FireFox / Opera / Safari on both Windows and Mac, there are much… much more results, the pages are XHTML 1.0 Strict compatible for a maximal compatibility, validation are done everywhere in the system to ensure that nothing goes wrong, and the layout is totally new and much simpler.

Why?

For some reasons. First, I was ashamed of the current version of Talk Digger. In fact, it was not really a Beta version, it was an Alpha prototype. Second, I wanted a robust system that I could easily extend to implement all the ideas I have to upgrade and innovate with the service. Third, I wanted a system where I could easily broadcast the computed information to other web-services that could use it to do something (the current problem with that idea is the computer/network infrastructure); that way it would be a first step to enter Talk Digger in the Semantic Web: making it a semantic web-service oriented toward the conversations that evolve on the Internet.

This post is not complete, descriptive and is probably really not clear. However, have in mind that this new version of Talk Digger will be available in a week or two and then I will start to talk about it and his future at that time.

During that time, are there things that you would like to see in that new version of Talk Digger? Some wishes?

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