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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.
My URI:
http://iandavis.com/id/me
Email Me:
nospam@iandavis.com
Twitter:
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Monthly Archives: December 1999
Dewpoint
Dewpoint is a web directory organised by the Dewey Decimal System. It’s based on one person’s surfing habits but the concept scales extremely well and lends itself to syndicated content directories. All you have to do is define a mapping … Continue reading
WAPAW Surges
I was hoping to see the WAPAW search engine hit 10,000 indexed pages this week. We hit that on Wednesday around lunchtime and already we’re up to 13.5K pages. Full stats from WapWorm: Recently Submitted Pages in Queue: 4 Pages … Continue reading
Backflip
Backflip is the name of the new service started by ex Netscaper Tim Hickman. You use it to store your bookmarks and it organises them in a Yahoo style index which you can search or browse as you like.
W3C Workshop on PDIS
The W3C are running a workshop on Position Dependent Information Services. This is the kind of stuff that will let you use your phone to find a restaraunt nearby or lookup the times of the next bus out of town. … Continue reading
Slashdot Discusses WAP
Slashdot are running a discussion on the merits of WAP. Lots of gems to be found if you dig deep enough
Cursor Software Tracks Customers
I’m a bit late with this one, but it’s worth including anyway. Apparently Comet Systems, who produce a free piece of software to change a PC’s cursor into something a little more exciting, has secretly been tracking the usage of … Continue reading
Updates soon…
I’ve got a pile of updates, but life is busy at the moment so they’ll have to wait until later today.
