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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: April 2001
Semantic Web Elevator Pitches
There’s a thread running on the rdf-dev list at the moment about an Elevator Pitch for the Semantic Web. Two good contributions so far from Dan Brickley: it’s all about making Web-accessible data easier to automate by agreeing explicit names … Continue reading
RSS 0.93
Dave Winer has started work on developing RSS 0.93, an incremental update from RSS 0.92. The main driving force for this has been the requirement to add a publication date to each item, something that has been possible in RSS … Continue reading
Mobile Portal Shakeout
An interesting article at C|Net about the upcoming mobile portal shakeout
AutoDesk Files
I’ve been reading the AutoDesk Files, the gathered documents from AutoDesk’s early years. Fascinating reading, and it’s nice to know that things never change: The game has changed. In 1977 this business was fun–the sellers and buyers were hotshot techies … Continue reading
Geonotes
GeoNotes is a system for annotating physical locations. When you move into that area the annotations can be pushed to your wireless device. Virtual graffiti?
History of Javascript
Steve Champeon has written the first of a series of articles on the history of JavaScript: Disdain for a language that apparently required no skill to use, lacked an IDE and a reliable cross-platform debugger, and could only be tested … Continue reading
Blogger/Trellix Deal
How the Blogger Deal Happened, by Dan Bricklin of Trellix. How the Trellix Deal Happened, by Evan Williams of Blogger.
Netscape 4 CSS1 Implementation
Why Netscape 4 has such a poor CSS1 implementation [via camworld]
Spamming Google
I had a great idea yesterday for spamming Google. Why would I want to spam Google? Well, I don’t but that doesn’t stop me thinking about how it could be done. Google works on the citation principle – if many … Continue reading
WAP User Agent List
The WAP User Agent List is offline temporarily. I want to bring it back, but I want to take this opportunity to make some changes that will make it even more useful. My current plans are to break the list … Continue reading
