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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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nospam@iandavis.com
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Monthly Archives: November 2006
Data Portability
I’ve been looking at SmugMug for offsite photo storage based on some nice things I’ve been reading about them and some conversations in the office. They use Amazon’s S3 for very cost-effective storage which, being a geek, made me think … Continue reading
Bridging Two Worlds
Over on Nodalities, my colleague Paul Miller asks how can we bridge the world of the semantic web theoreticians and the practitioners: There are plenty of examples of big companies such as IBM, HP or BT that maintain well-resourced research … Continue reading
OpenStreetMap Grand Challenge
Steve Coast from the OpenStreetMap project: People have stopped asking me if OSM will ever work. They’ve stopped telling me that it will only work in this or that circumstance. What I’m being asked now is when will OSM map … Continue reading
Playstation Heralds New Business Model?
Over on the O’Reilly Radar Tim O’Reilly has a post entitled Insight into Future Business Models which looks at how the loss-making PS3 is another indicator of the new business model of giving away the hardware to promote information services … Continue reading
Wesabe Launches with Data Bill of Rights
Wesabe, the personal finance startup, launched today and as hinted last week they have a Data Bill of Rights linked prominently off of their home page. Very satisfying to see a company commit to an open and honest data policy. … Continue reading
Strong Typing vs the Web
It’s clearly SOAP-beating day. Here’s Nelson Minar’s view: The deeper problem with SOAP is strong typing. WSDL accomplishes its magic via XML Schema and strongly typed messages. But strong typing is a bad choice for loosely coupled distributed systems. The … Continue reading
Future of Consoles
I thought this was deliciously funny: My favorite part of Wii Sports, though, is the boxing game. My [9 year old] daughter and I had created avatars that looked like us and we used these avatars to box with each … Continue reading
Unreal Conversations
If you haven’t seen Pete Lacey’s socratic dialogue on the evolution of SOAP then please go and read it straight away. An excerpt to whet your whistle: Dev: Okay, where’s the spec on this? SG: Oh, there is no spec. … Continue reading
Venice
Some of the veil of secrecy is dropping around the venice project, a kind of TV-over-IP system. I’ve been playing with the beta and there’s a glimmer of something very interesting there, possibly a game-changer in the broadcast arena. While … Continue reading
Data mining lecture notes
Greg Linden, who Sam and I had the good fortune to meet at the Web 2.0 Summit this year, has posted a link to some excellent class notes on data mining. Lots of interesting topics on clustering and relevancy analysis … Continue reading
