Christopher Gutteridge of the University of Southampton recently suggested that SemanticTweet could support a semantically stable notion of twitter hash tags. I’ve recently implemented and deployed a new version of ST that does just that.
So now, you can use a URI such as:
http://semantictweet.com/tags/%23semantictweet
to represent the #semantictweet hash tag, or
http://semantictweet.com/tags/%23semantictweet+%23rdf
to represent the pair of hash [...]

A few days ago, at the recommendation of @cgutteridge, I changed the default FOAF class from foaf:Person to foaf:Agent, when representing Twitter users.
As Christoper rightly pointed out, foaf:Person is used specifically to represent real-live people, whereas many of the accounts on twitter are either organisations or bots of various kinds. As such, foaf:Agent is the [...]

I wrote previously about a report in TechCrunch about Twitter growing uncomfortable with people using the term ‘tweet’ in applications.
TechCrunch has just provided a further update to this story.

I’ve had a number of mails from people in the past few months, saying that they had discovered their name, whether real name or twitter alias, on a semantictweet.com page as a result of a Google search. Sometimes their name may have appeared on the same page as other less savoury twitter accounts (e.g. twitter [...]

After a couple of great recent mentions in ProgrammableWeb and KillerStartups, SemanticTweet has been named as the site of the day on the Japanese site 100shiki.com.
My complete lack of Japanese means I can’t interpret what the article says, but I’m assuming that it’s reasonably positive.

programmableweb.com has just listed semantictweet in their catalog of mashups.  They have also tweeted about it.
Cool!
I’ve submitted the story to digg, so if you like it, please digg it!

I have just deployed a new version of SemanticTweet. In this iteration, SemanticTweet supports geolocation. Specifically, it attempts to convert your Twitter location into a semantic web equivalent.
Because Twitter allows your location attribute to be free-form text, SemanticTweet must parse the attribute to turn it into something intelligible. At present, SemanticTweet supports four [...]

TechCrunch have posted a report about Twitter growing "uncomfortable" with the use of the word ‘tweet‘ in applications. The post and the subsequent comments are pretty interesting to read in the context of Twitter’s actions in relation to IP & trademarks.
It’ll be an interesting one to follow. On the one hand, you can understand that [...]

@danja pointed out that there were RDF validation errors in SemanticTweet. Turns out that I hadn’t checked it closely enough before releasing. They key problem was that I was generating a single <foaf:knows> node, with multiple children, rather than one each.
A secondary problem is that some Twitter users don’t provide valid URIs in their [...]

I’ve just released the first pre-alpha (if there is such a thing) version of the semantictweet service.
Basically, it generates a FOAF RDF document for you from your list of Twitter friends and followers. It does this using the Twitter REST API. This service uses public Twitter data only, and so doesn’t need your Twitter username [...]