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Saul suggested that we run a “Open Social Graph” session at next year’s Open Knowledge Foundation conference. Great! I thought. Hang on, what’s an open social graph?
Bread Fitzpatrick sets out some broad assumptions and goals about this open social graph effort. It’s a reaction to user annoyance at having to recreate a “social network” on […]

I flicked through a lot of pictures taken at etech on flickr , and the ones that drew my attention were taken by, or taken of, people i knew. When pictures were unlabelled, especially if i didn’t recognise people in other pictures taken by the same person, i gave less attention to the pictures i […]

I had a lovely chat today with miegawa[sic?], a core developer of the plagger feed aggregation / re-interfacing project, and found the quick overview fascinating. Right now, plagger is a kind of feed multiplexing system, which talks to different well known services like gmail, delicious etc, but has generic interfaces to stmp, irc and other […]

i’ve been documenting the latest version of the toolkit that i’ve been building for wirelesslondon / node.london
nodel HOWTO
nodel source and description
i saw an article today by Kendall Clark that describes a similar concept (’Semantic Web Meets Ruby on Rails’ ideas) - Semantic MVC at o’reillynet, and this blog about ruby semweb interface generators which looks […]

Redland is 5 today!

Marc’s perl Class::Redland and our python rdfobj are based on it, and it’s helped us all go a lot faster. Thanks, dajobe!

I am experiencing a bout of that same compulsion to verbiage that must bother regular bloggers daily - a kind of blogohrrea. Having exhausted the patience of my irc friends, i turn to the web as a verbal outlet.
In theory, times are very interesting. Semantic web projects with a spatial aspect, that i’ve been tinkering […]

i did a talk, on the theme Semantic City, at the Architecture Association school. This was alongside the very interesting John Bell who has a whole ‘unit’ to help him do interestng things with bluetooth based micro broadcasting, sensors and crowd motion analysis…
it is a story about dispersed information infrastructure, knowledge in the world and […]

Busily hacking together prototypes for Wireless London, a free network service collection thing.
The package will eventually contain an RSS aggregator server; written using the redland python interface, and a standalone GiST based spatial index. I’m planning to cobble together a generic RDF aggregator package soon, mostly from other peoples’ rss storage and feed parsing code. […]

we lurked on the beer track mostly at foafcamp, but i visited the quick presentation sessions and did a braindump on geopolitical foaf, some of the socio-political networking projects that we’ve come across in california, some using foaf overtly, others with cotangent aims.
Most enjoyed, i think, graham klyne’s presentation on description logics in literate haskell, […]

i made an RDF API to the del.icio.us api, to make a point. The RDF version of the del.icio.us api works exactly the same as the real one, but the results are in RDF, and everything that goes through it gets stored in an RDF model. this means that you may get back more context […]