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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 […]

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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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