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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: September 2005
Web 2.0 Conference
I’ll be in the Bay Area for the Web 2.0 conference for a few days next week, arriving Tuesday night. I’ll be with Paul Miller who recently joined Talis. Please feel free to drop me a line or skype me … Continue reading
Planet Web 2.0 Additions
I’ve added a few more blogs to Planet Web 2.0. These are onese I’ve been particularly enjoying over the past few weeks: Dion Hinchcliffe – some new and interesting viewpoints including a different visualisation of Web 2.0 John Musser – … Continue reading
RSS Feeds for Tagged Posts
As part of the ongoing experiment with adding tagging to this site, I’ve enabled RSS feeds for individual tags, e.g. web20 or tagging. I still think that tagging has value but it’s not a panacea.
The Sixteen Faces of Eve
My goal in this posting, prompted by some email discussions on constrained profiles of RDF/XML, is to take three simple triples and see how many ways there were of serialising them as RDF/XML. I chose not to consider order of … Continue reading
QOTD
If we rely on HTTP we will melt the Internet. Don Box
Clearing Out
I have to admit to a terrible addiction of hoarding old computer parts. I’m in the middle of a three way room swap – my office is becoming Kier’s bedroom, Freya is moving into his vacated bedroom and now her … Continue reading
eMule/eDonkey Technical Paper
Fascinating paper on the underlying architecture of the eDonkey network eMule is a popular file sharing application which is based on the eDonkey protocol. This report describes the network behavior of eMule and explains the basic terminology that is needed … Continue reading
Crisis
I experienced something of a system shock at the DC2005 conference today. I sat in on the Architecture Working Group meeting and as events unfolded I suddenly realised that, without a radical change, I could well be witnessing the beginning … Continue reading
