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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:
http://twitter.com/iand
Monthly Archives: October 2009
links for 2009-10-20
Python Idioms and Efficiency Suggestions (tags: python idioms reference efficiency)
More Than The Minimum
The Linked Data design note lists four practices that lay the foundations of a web of connected data: Use URIs as names for things Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names. When someone looks up a … Continue reading
links for 2009-10-19
[foaf-dev] SocialWeb anti-pattern wiki? today’s annoyance: name too long/short/weird to fit Dan writes that “Greenpeace’s site just refused to let me sign up, because my first name – Dan – is too short. ” and lists some other arbitrary limits … Continue reading
links for 2009-10-14
Dynamic presentations with Jessyink Similar to Prezi, Jessyink is a plugin for Inkscape which allows you to design slides using SVG, and ships a javascript library inside the resulting SVG for execution. (tags: presentations dynamic opensource prezi)
links for 2009-10-12
Are You Going to San Francisco – emptyage (tags: culture travel advice guide urban home blog food) Alex Payne — So You’re Moving to San Francisco (tags: travel advice urban tips culture twitter blog writing) There’s only metadata and URIs … Continue reading
links for 2009-10-11
Why startups shouldn’t have to pay to pitch angel investors « The Jason Calacanis Weblog (tags: vc business entrepreneurship free venture) Building Web Reputation Systems: The Blog: The Dollhouse Mafia, or “Don’t Display Negative Karma” (tags: community psychology social networking … Continue reading
A Wild Alternative to Postcode Data
So the Royal Mail are targeting threats to their monopoly on the postcode data. The blogosphere is outraged naturally, and most arguments take the stance that this is data created by a publicly owned body and that it should belong … Continue reading
links for 2009-10-04
hmg.gov.uk/data and What We Can Do | Jeni’s Musings (tags: opendata datagovuk linkeddata)
links for 2009-10-01
jwz – My ongoing Kafka-esque nightmare of dealing with Palm and their App Catalog submission process. (tags: software mobile programming iphone blog development app culture opensource pre palm)
