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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 2006
Search Assistance at eBay
I spotted an interesting assistive search technique at eBay today: It’s interesting to me because of its simplicity and it could be pretty effective at teaching people how to refine searches which is something that doesn’t just come naturally. It’s … Continue reading
Shit Happens
I’m amused to find the following when I went to read Mark Pilgrim’s cynical jibe at some broken encoding on a web page. Yes, amazingly software doesn’t always work the way we want it to. And serving up an internal … Continue reading
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Web
Jim Hendler continues his exploration of the dark side of the semantic web with a must-read editorial for IEEE Intelligent Systems, the well-respected AI journal: A key realization that Berners-Lee had with respect to the design of RDF is having … Continue reading
Mummy Google
Aaron Swartz: I was talking with a friend the other day about that perennial subject of conversation in the Valley, Google. And finally she gave me the clue that made the whole place make sense. “It’s about infantilizing people,” she … Continue reading
Equilibrium Points
Over on the Long Tail blog I found a fascinating fact about the render times of Pixar movies: In 1995 each frame of Toy Story took two hours to render yet in 2005 an average frame of Cars took 15! … Continue reading
AI it aint
It’s great to see someone like Jim Hendler get it: …you use a small amount of Sem Web (think Foaf or Skos) to add a bit of organizational knowledge (and to webize with URIs) to tagging sites, microformats, and etc. … Continue reading
Google Map Image Maker
This looks useful: With P2K*P2K, you can create (up to) 2000*2000px high resolution maps, and they are download-able in GIF format. All you need is type in the latitude, longitude of the location, choose the size and zoom level. Lightening … Continue reading
Redefining Web 2.0
Tim O’Reilly has posted yet another definition of Web 2.0. This time he has synthesised several earlier definitions into something that he hopes is clearer: Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to … Continue reading
We’re Blogging
Talis has a bunch of company blogs that a lot of us contribute to. However, many Talisians have their own personal blogs too: (hope I didn’t miss anyone – let me know!) me :-) Andy Dave Ian (one of the … Continue reading
Ed Parsons Moving On
With interest I note that Ed Parsons is stepping down as CTO of the Ordnance Survey. Some in the industry are puzzled but after having watched the interaction between Ed and projects like OpenStreetmap I’d like to hazard a guess. … Continue reading
