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 →

Lauren Wood recently has recently been seeking input from people successfully using a Wiki in a corporate environment. I've been meaning to write up my own experiences in this area for a while, as I've spent the last few years nurturing a burgeoning Wiki culture at Ingenta. Lauren's request was the spur I needed to … Continue reading Bootstrapping a Corporate Wiki →

Seems like the library community is getting interested in folksonomies and how they can be used to supplement data coming from OPACS and other structured metadata. From The Shifted Librarian: I think controlled vocabularies and folksonomies can co-exist peacefully and even complement each other. And as librarians, let's start making use of them to complement … Continue reading Folksonomies and Libraries →

So any signs that "tag spam" has started yet? "Tag Spam" will be (or is) the practice of associating unrelated content (pr0n links, adverts, viagra pill adverts, press releases) with well-known tags with the purpose of encouraging click-throughs to said content. Seems like a natural extension of referrer, comment, and trackback spam, and I'm curious … Continue reading Tag Spam →

As one of my new years resolutions was to not sit on ideas until I get time to implement them (I never do), so I've created an "Ideas" category that I can use to write these down. Here's my first one: I'd like an application that would build be a personal timeline of my web … Continue reading Idea for Personal Timeline Viewer →

I signed up for a flickr account shortly after it launched. Back then I was interested in browsing through the service to look at possibilities for data import/export (as FOAF) and so never actually played with the photo management and sharing features (duh). Prompted by Christopher Schmidt's recent Flickr and RDF posting which gave a … Continue reading Flickr Convert →

You can't go far these days without tripping over commentary on Google's strategy. I've not really paid this much attention, but it's been interesting watching the launch of Google Scholar and reactions from the library communities because it directly intersects with my day job: managing the team that has built and is enhancing IngentaConnect my … Continue reading Google Scholar →

Adverts get pretty annoying when you're trying to concentrate on the details of a technical article. The tendency to stick bloody great images just after the first paragraph is something that I especially find irritating. I tend to find myself hitting "print friendly" links as soon as possible. As articles then tend to get delivered … Continue reading Print-Friendly Bookmarklet →

Interesting looking project from Matt Web. A desktop application that lets you "glance" at your friends. Glancing This is the result of Matt asking: "What's the smallest scale of social interaction that can take place online?" Interesting. I've been thinking along similar lines recently, wondering about other mechanisms for web annotation/path creation. Analysing little trails … Continue reading Glancing and Sniffing →