Monthly Archives: November 2008

Google SearchWiki

Another new innovation from Google. They are so far ahead in the search game and every innovation basically accelerates them away from MS and Yahoo even faster. I’d characterise SearchWiki as a blending/blurring of search and bookmarking. They need to … Continue reading

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links for 2008-11-14

Current Cost presentation at Open Tech 2008 – SlideShare (tags: hardware,sensors,data)

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Extinction Timeline

Following on from my previous post quite by chance I came across this extinction timeline that predicts the death of mending things for 2009. Fascinating predictions.

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The End of Fixable Objects?

This is a depressing trend in the engineering world: the sealed machine with no discernable parts. I sometimes feel that, at the age of 35, I am a member of the last generation that grew up in a world of … Continue reading

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links for 2008-11-13

12 Ways to Limit an API (tags: webservices web2.0)

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This Intellectual Property Malarkey is Quite Confusing

I have through my “skill and judgement” interpreted where to locate the recycling centres, as they locations don’t appear on either the mapping or the original website. So the locations are not derived… Or are they? Some very interesting debate … Continue reading

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Paget Iteration 2

A few weeks ago I released a small PHP framework for publishing linked data (see my earlier post Publishing Linked Data with PHP). Since then I have made a lot of changes to the code and ended up completely changing … Continue reading

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Homepage Links

I did a bit of blog housekeeping and collated all the links to my homepages on services across the web. I’m using WordPress’s link management feature to organise and display them in the sidebar on my blog’s homepage. With a … Continue reading

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RESTful eCommerce

Alan Dean is on a roll with a bunch of interesting REST posts: When Basket Checkout isn’t RESTful What a RESTful Basket Checkout might look like On RESTful Basket State

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