One of the things that gets most frequently requested for Revyu is the ability to edit reviews. When we built the site there was a clear rationale for not doing this: if people had another experience that changed their opinion of something we wanted them to write a new review rather than edit an old one; this way we could follow changes in something’s reputation over time. However, you, wonderful Revyu users, clearly want the ability to tweak what you’ve written, which is totally fair enough. We’ll get the edit functionality sorted as soon as we possibly can. Thanks for being so patient

My slides from the Developers’ Track talk at WWW2007 are now online – you’ll need a recent standards-compliant browser that handles XSLT happily. The talk seemed to go well – at least I had some very positive feedback afterwards. TimBL raised some useful points about licensing of Revyu content, and using the Tabulator confirmed the suspicion I’d had for sometime that the content negotiation on Revyu URIs isn’t sensitive to q values in the Accept header. Hmm, maybe time to replace ModRewrite rules with something a little bit more powerful? The session was audio recorded, so quality-permitting there’ll be a replay online sometime soon.

Things have been pretty busy behind the scenes with Revyu recently, which has meant the blog has been very quiet. More on what we’ve been up to shortly, but for now I just wanted to flag up that Revyu is being presented on Friday (11th May) at the 2007 Worldwide Web Conference (WWW2007) in Banff, Canada.

I’ll be presenting what we’ve been doing with Revyu in the Linked Data session of the Developer’s Track (alongside Tim Berners-Lee presenting Tabulator and Chris Bizer talking about DBpedia), under the title “How to Combine the Best of Web2.0 and a Semantic Web: Examples from Revyu.com”. Should be good. Any fresh reviews in the next couple of days are very welcomed. I’ll post the slides online when they’re properly finished.