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Ian Davis: British; married with kids; technical architect; CTO of Talis; co-author of RSS 1.0; creator of FOAF icons; Semantic Web hacker.
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http://iandavis.com/id/me
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Monthly Archives: December 1999
Top WAP Search Terms
After poking around WAPAW‘s usage stats I thought I’d compile a top ten list of search terms: News (127) WAP (97) Restaurant (56) Hotels (54) Sex (53) Weather (42) Nokia (41) WML (37) CNN (34) Stock (33) This is out … Continue reading
New Perl SOAP Release
Keith Brown has released version 0.20 of his Perl SOAP client. This version is a complete rewrite to move it closer to the recent IETF draft submission. Also the transport is completely decoupled from the packet handling code so experimentation … Continue reading
Aglets Update
Back in August I wrote about the Aglet mobile agent project that was under threat of closure by IBM. Todd Papaioannou has written to update us: the Aglet source will be released to the community early next year! This should … Continue reading
MySpider
MySpider is a collaborative index that takes some of the open directory and mixes it with the community rating of Alexa. An interesting experiment, but the results need more detail and the links open in a new frame with an … Continue reading
Mobile Internet Explosion Predicted in Europe
According to a Forrester Research report, an estimated 219 million people in Europe, will be accessing the Internet using mobile devices by 2003. That works out to be about a third of the European population.
WAPAW.COM Moves Onward
WAPAW.COM got an upgrade today in the form of a new Wireless Directory. The directory is being constructed in association with XMLTree and any WML sites sumnitted there will appear as part of the WAPAW directory.
Busy Times…
For those visiting Internet Alchemy for the first time, it’s usually slightly more active than it has been for the past couple of weeks. Don’t worry it’ll pick up again soon when I’m less busy.
Sun Open Standards Sham
NEW YORK, NY Java Business SM Conference December 7, 1999 Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced today that it is withdrawing its proposal to formally standardize the Java 2 platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) from the standards body ECMA. Sun is withdrawing from … Continue reading
NT4.0 Regains C2 Status
Microsoft has announced that NT has passed the C2 security evaluation in six different modes. Contrary to popular belief, the last version of NT to be evaluated for this security classification was 3.51. Briefly, the required steps to enforce C2 … Continue reading
SAXON v5.0 Released
The latest version of the SAXON XSL processor has been released. This version claims full support for the recent XSLT and XPath recommendations. So now there are two fully compliant engines out there.
