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Flickr & Twitter On Asynchronicity
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
This morning I sat in a couple of sessions focussed on XMPP, Jabber: Social Software for Robots & Jaiku - rich presence. While Ralph’s overview of Jaiku and the way it can exploit XMPP’s notion of presence was interesting, Kellan & Blaine’s really caught my attention. They talked about how Flickr & Twitter are using […]
XTech
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
I’m in Paris for XTech - hardly seems feasible that its a year since this. Yesterday was Ubiquitous Web day, but I spent most of the day in a tutorial on XQuery. The conference proper starts today, there’s lots of cool things going on & lots of interesting people about. Nice to catch up with […]
Flickr Machine Tags
Thursday, January 25th, 2007
Flickr have added an interesting new feature to their query API, Machine Tags. In one way, this is really a formalisation of what people were already doing to a certain extent informally. What is seems like to me is a step toward RDF (at the moment there’s only support for literal values as objects)
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Five whole things?
Friday, January 12th, 2007
So, as the meme peters out, the bottom of the barrel is truly being scraped and I’ve been tagged by Ian.
My all time favourite on-screen detective is Columbo. By a country mile.
In my youth, I was a fairly dedicated racing cyclist. I used to ride around 250 miles every week and competed regularly. Just writing […]
IBM Adtech Group release RDF Repository
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the IBM Advanced Technology Group we visited at Cambridge have been putting some serious development effort into their Semantic Layered Research Platform.
Wing reported yesterday that Boca, an RDF repository built atop DB2, has gone public in the platform’s first OS release. I’ve already downloaded, can’t wait […]
Under the Radar
Monday, November 13th, 2006
On Saturday, wrapping up our time in San Francisco, Ian and I had a great informal meet up with Nova Spivack and some of his team at Radar Networks. We showed them some the things we’ve been working on and demoing for the past few months, talked a bit about the Talis Community Licence […]
Geeking with Greg
Thursday, November 9th, 2006
One of the first blogs I look to when I fire up my aggregator is Greg Linden’s, so it was cool to bump into him at dinner last night. See here for Greg’s take on Ask.com’s Jim Lanzone and Microsoft’s Steve Berkowitz session yesterday.
Ning
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini from Ning are up now. Gina says they launched their first products a couple of months ago, but I remember checking out Ning at least a year ago.
Oh dear, they’ve ground to a halt, looks like the presenters aren’t immune from the connectivity problems either.
Enterprise 2.0 Mashups
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com is on stage now. He makes the claim that Salesforce are doing for enterprise services what Amazon is doing for infrastructure, i.e. removing the “muck” and enabling innovation. He characterises one aspect of salesforce as an “Elastic Database, that scales” and in that regard, I can see a lot of […]