Dinnerbuzz

Came across DinnerBuzz after reading about it on You're It: Yummier and Yummier. OK, cool, this is somewhere I can collect my restaurant recommendations/reviews, perhaps more usefully than just tagged as Restaurant on del.icio.us. So I go to add a review of the Orient Cafe in Oxford, and what do I get: You've submitted a … Continue reading Dinnerbuzz →

My Web 2.0

Just came across this via Flickr ("Shiny New Toy"): Yahoo Search My Web 2.0 Beta. See also the obligatory product blog and developer APIs. Combines social networking and search to limit your search results based on trust metrics. I've not been able to get very far into the site yet to try it out. At … Continue reading My Web 2.0 →

Simple List Extensions Critique

Some thoughts on the Simple List Extensions Specification. I've been waiting a few days as I wanted to get a feel for what problems are being addressed by the new module; it's not clear from the specification itself. Dare Obasanjo has summarised the issues, so I now feel better armed to comment. My first bits … Continue reading Simple List Extensions Critique →

Fun with Jena Rules

Today's lunchtime special involves fun with the Jena 2 rule engine. I've been wondering for a while whether it'd be possible to extracting richer metadata from tagging conventions. Of course it's possible, I'm just playing with different ways to achieve it. Quick XSLT conversions are my normal method of choice, but I wanted to have … Continue reading Fun with Jena Rules →

foaf:OnlineAccount Generator

Phil Wilson is also thinking about how to subscribe to someone's brain. Phil has hacked his aggregator to attempt to discover as many RSS feeds as possible starting from autodiscovery of someone's FOAF description. Nice work. It's also closer to the original lazyweb request as its applying some rules to try and find additional data … Continue reading foaf:OnlineAccount Generator →

Subscribe To My Brain

Over Thai food last week, Geoff and I were chatting about subscribing to RSS feeds for all of a person's outputs. No just blogging but bookmarking, listening and other activities. Its a topic that's seen some previous discussion. I've written about my life in RDF, Jo Walsh has discussed externalising absolutely everything and Morten Frederiksen … Continue reading Subscribe To My Brain →

Triple Store Test Suites

I was very pleased to see this post pop up on PlanetRDF: Stress test your triple store. Ten million triples from the Swoogle cache ready for download. As it happens I'm trying to get sign off at the moment to release part of our data set for research purposes. Not confident of how far I'm … Continue reading Triple Store Test Suites →

Revenge of the Sith

I have a confession to make: Revenge of the Sith is the first Star Wars film I've seen at the cinema. And I'm 33. That's probably enough to get me ostracised from geek society. I was old enough to see at least Jedi when it came out. And surely I should have been frothing at … Continue reading Revenge of the Sith →

IANAL

In an attempt to put my various projects into the Public Domain, it seems that I've caused some confusion. All I want to do is the following: label my code as being in the Public Domain, but require that people at least acknowledge the fact that they're using something I wrote. I'd prefer it if … Continue reading IANAL →

Sample Sparql Queries, Updated

Back in February I posted some sample sparql queries that might be useful as additional examples of the SPARQL syntax. Since then we've had several new drafts including some syntax changes. In this post I'm including updated versions of all queries. Except for one that is, see later discussion). I've also thrown in a few … Continue reading Sample Sparql Queries, Updated →