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There's been a flurry of nice little semweb services appearing recently - e.g. triplr ( stuff in, triples out), sindice ( Semantic Web resource lookup), pingthesemanticweb ( pingable RDF repository - ok, not that recent). PS. Gunnar reminds me about uriqr ( find URIs of things labelled or named...) - sorry Tom!

They all only aim to do pretty much one thing (and appear to do it well). What's really appealing about these mini-services is they make ideal components for gluing together and/or extending with/into other services.

Case in point is SID, from Michael Hausenblas :

How many times have you already signed up for a site? How many Wiki user pages have you got? You got a blog? A Web 1.0 website? There are so many web pages out there that basically have one thing in common: they tell things about you. One could talk about different aspects of a 'thing' - a thing that happens to be you ;)

So, here comes SID into play. SID is the Social (or Semantic) ID, hence allows finding, and publishing your many identities on the Web.

Technically, what SID does is looking up resources at sindice.com...

After putting in your own URI (remember, Give yourself a URI), you get to choose the equivalents - for owl:sameAs - and then get presented with that data expressed as RDFa displayed as a sweet little button ( which presumably will be readable by triplr then eatable by pingthesemanticweb ). Nifty.

btw, if you've not seen it yet, the Zitgist RDF Browser (prerelease) is looking mighty promising.

Bonus points to anyone in the uk that remembers the "Tell Sid" campaign...