Month: September 2007

Utopie

the year 2000 as seen from 1900. mustachioed gents and servants?? shows how people always underestimate societal change (even though it is fairly glacial for my tastes)

Google Body

i already have google body: +10 kg. thanks, google chefs!

GRDDL Primer

This document serves as an introduction to GRDDL (Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages), a mechanism for obtaining RDF data from XML documents and in particular XHTML pages using explicitly associated transformation algorithms, typically represented in XSLT. It uses a number of examples from the GRDDL Use Cases document to illustrate the techniques GRDDL provides for associating documents with appropriate instructions for extracting any embedded data.

not sure how this helps anything.

Immigrants boycott Western Union

they take took great a cut. time for nimbler rivals? this industry is completely over-regulated and could do with some fresh blood.

OS Explore

baby steps towards UGC. the T&C are funny: submissions have to be accurate and relevant

Memory Architecture

16TB @ 1ns access speed by 3d nanowires. this has the potential to speed up computer architectures across the board: no more pushing data through a straw.

HTML Mail

oh noes! standards support in mail readers is broken (offline ones, anyway). sounds like a solution looking for a problem.

Babbledog

building a chat system that leads you to relevant discussions based on the sites you visit. You can check out our latest efforts at babbledog.com.

wherein shimons secret project is revealed: connotea, reloaded

dilbert on web 2.0

Microsoft on CapGemini-Google deal

Google has a history of releasing incomplete products, calling them beta software, and issuing updates on a “known only to Google” schedule – this flies in the face of what enterprises want and need in their technology partners – what is Google doing that indicates they are in lock step with customer needs?

aww, cute