XTech Day Two: XHTML and the WHATWG

Some notes from day two of the XTech conference. A more mixed selection of talks for me yesterday: Directions of the Mozilla RDF engine -- Axel Hecht gave a low level look at how the RDF parser and APIs in Mozilla were going to be brought up to specification and optimised. Some new APIs will … Continue reading XTech Day Two: XHTML and the WHATWG →

Xtech Day One: Open Data Track

Some notes on the first day of the XTech 2005 conference. The opening keynotes of the conferences were from Paula Le Dieu of Creative Commons International and Mike Shaver, Project Co-ordinator for the Mozilla Foundation. In his opening remarks as conference chair, Edd Dumbill, explained that the keynotes underpinned his goal to broaden this years … Continue reading Xtech Day One: Open Data Track →

Connecting Social Content Services using FOAF, RDF and REST

Abstract A growing number of "social content" applications such as Flickr, del.icio.us, audioscrobbler, and AllConsuming are making open web services part of their core offering to end users. These interfaces allow users to query, share, and manipulate the data managed on their behalf by these social content applications. Web service interfaces make such sites more … Continue reading Connecting Social Content Services using FOAF, RDF and REST →

XTech Plans

I'm flying out to Amsterdam tomorrow for XTech. Like last year I'm staying in the Quentin England near Leidesplein, and have extended my trip to include a long weekend afterwards. So it'll be a nice mix of geekiness followed by some fun, food and drinks with the missus and a whole posse of friends who … Continue reading XTech Plans →