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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: February 2007
It’s Not RDF versus Microformats
Yesterday’s post provoked a rather aggressive response from Tantek Çelik, leader of the Microformats community. Since my post wasn’t about microformats, I’m a bit surprised at the tone of the response. I guess it must be the CSS analogy that … Continue reading
Make or Break for the Semantic Web?
I was reading Elliotte Rusty Harold’s predictions for the XML world in 2007 and spotted this (which Danny has also pointed out): 2007 is the make-or-break year for the Semantic Web. The specs are done. The tools are in place, … Continue reading
This Monkey’s Had Enough
Aztec Monkey: So, where to go from here? Well, this is certainly the last JSF project I will be working on, and eventually I hope to phase it out of this current one. JSF is web development for Java programmers … Continue reading
Favour Slash over Hash
Interesting. Norm Walsh is the first person I’ve seen actively convert to hash URIs to slash URIs since the httpRange-14 decision. Most people I know have been going the other way (me included). Unable to come up with a workaround … Continue reading
Remixing at XTech
I’m excited because I just got back from a great long weekend away walking the ancient Wiltshire landscape and found a message in my inbox confirming that my XTech proposal had been accepted. My talk and paper’s going to be … Continue reading
John Davies Podcast
My friend and colleague, Paul Miller, has been a stalwart of podcasting at Talis. This weeks is particularly semwebby being a conversation with John Davies, Head of Next Generation Web Research at BT. John and Paul talk about some of … Continue reading
Yahoo’s Marketing Platform
John Battelle has some interesting notes about Yahoo’s push towards becoming a marketing platform, partnering for promotions by drawing on content from all over their huge network of sites, much of it user generated: The company will tie together its … Continue reading
Fotolog Out-Socialises Flickr
At the end of last year I wrote: Web 2.0 is about using the Internet for what it’s good at: building web applications that enable and benefit from human social behaviour on a massive scale. I came across this recent … Continue reading
