Monthly Archives: January 2007

Now, how to make lists with a point?

Yaron Koren comments on our dbpedia project: I created a query to get a list (including image) of all extinct birds whose name contains the letter “d”. Does that seem like a pointless list? Well, it is, though on the … Continue reading

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Test post, please ignore

FeedBurner, please purge the feed cache …

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Call it Web and they will buy it

Nick Gall, VP Gartner, complains that Middleware vendors simply slapped a “Web” label onto their overcomplicated products and, thanks to W3C’s blessing, managed to create yet another wave of hype: Unfortunately, Web Services, at least the WS- style, are “Web” … Continue reading

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Ohloh: an open source directory

Recently I came across ohloh.net, a Web 2.0-ish directory of open source projects. It seems to aggregate information from at least SourceForge, Freshmeat, user-provided RSS feeds, and possibly other sources. The most interesting aspect: To gather information about a project, … Continue reading

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Semantic Web tools list in Exhibit

Mike Bergmann has set up a list of Semantic Web tools that can be viewed, searched and filtered through SIMILE Exhibit. Some background on how he did it here – it combines Google Spreadsheets, WordPress and Exhibit. Pretty cool. If … Continue reading

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Endless Bar (tomorrow, Friday, January 19th)

Tomorrow the St. Oberholz in Berlin will will join the Endless Bar. Arne has the details. Come join us for a drink between 7.30 and 9.30pm, either personally in Berlin, or virtually if you are at any other place with … Continue reading

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Idea of the week

David Weinberger: In fact, perhaps we could use a microformat for technical problems and solutions. The first thing I do when I get some funky error message is to google for it. Even for the most arcane problem, there’s a … Continue reading

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StatCVS v0.3

It’s a new year, and that’s always a good time for releasing software. StatCVS is now at v0.3. The main new feature is a cleaner look for the reports (example). The commit log has been redesigned and now features permalinks … Continue reading

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Mozilla and Microformats

Over at Read/WriteWeb: Mozilla Does Microformats: Firefox 3 as Information Broker The comments are interesting too.

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