Monthly Archives: January 2007

Now, how to make lists with a point?

Posted on January 30, 2007 by Richard Cyganiak

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

Posted on January 29, 2007 by Richard Cyganiak

FeedBurner, please purge the feed cache …

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Call it Web and they will buy it

Posted on January 27, 2007 by Richard Cyganiak

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

Posted on January 24, 2007 by Richard Cyganiak

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

Posted on January 23, 2007 by Richard Cyganiak

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)

Posted on January 18, 2007 by Richard Cyganiak

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

Posted on January 11, 2007 by Richard Cyganiak

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

Posted on January 5, 2007 by Richard Cyganiak

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

Posted on January 3, 2007 by Richard Cyganiak

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