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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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Monthly Archives: March 2001
Insecure Wireless Networks
An expos of insecure wireless networks: With a wireless ethernet card, a laptop and some basic software savvy, you can get on the Internet for free from almost anywhere in downtown San Francisco. In fact, you can get a lot … Continue reading
Drizzle: An Open Alternative to Hailstorm
Dan Lyke has posted Drizzle, a response to Microsoft’s Hailstorm. Drizzle is an attempt to kick-start the process to develop an open alternative to Microsoft’s planned service. One problem users and developers face is that they are entrusting their or … Continue reading
First XHTML Microbrowser
Nokia have demonstrated what they claim is the world’s first XHTML microbrowser on a mobile phone at CeBIT in Hannover. The browser supports WML for legacy applications as well as XHTML. It’s pretty clear that the future of mobile internet … Continue reading
RSS 1.0 to be Used in Red Carpet
In a follow up to Rael’s Red-Carpet article, Vladimir Vukicevic, a developer at Ximian, has said that he plans to read the new RSS 1.0 spec to determine whether they can make the necessary changes to use 1.0 instead of … Continue reading
RSS Microsite Updated
At long last I’ve updated the RSS section of this site to include some real information about RSS instead of a page of information about RSSMaker. RSSMaker is officially dead, to be replaced very soon with a much more scalable … Continue reading
Notation3
I’ve been looking at Notation3, a simple non-XML markup language for representing triples. Tim Berners-Lee has written quite an extensive N3 tutorial which shows how simple the notation can be compared to the verbosity of RDF.
Red Carpet RSS
Rael Dornfest has written an article entitled Red Carpet RSS based on an observation by Edd Dumbill H that the Red Carpet software produced by Ximian used a channel format that had evolved almost identically to the RSS 1.0 format
Semantic Web
The W3C are stepping up work on the Semantic Web once more. They have recently launched a new Semantic Web Activity area This interview with Tim Berners-Lee gives a useful overview of the directions the W3C are taking: There are … Continue reading
SVG
SVG is an up and coming technology that seems to be on the brink of widespread adoption. With companies such as Adobe producing SVG browser plugins for most common web browsers and people working to add it to the Mozilla … Continue reading
10.am
I notice that 10.am is going from strength to strength. mallum has added a feed wizard to make it even easier to add 10.am scraped feeds to your site.
