Freebase has now opened its doors to anyone, at least for those who just want to browse and search. Looks like you’ll have to wait a while longer if you’re wanting to contribue. I’m still really interested in what Freebase brings to the party; how it compares and is different to Wikipedia – but most… [Read more…]
August 19, 2007
Susan Wu has written a lovely post in which she captures very elegantly some thoughts about what the next generation web might be. To date, most of what I’ve read puts “the semantic web” – in quotes because no-one really seems to agree what it’s actually all about – in the “web 3.0″ spot. Ms… [Read more…]
August 13, 2007
Although you’ve presumably come here looking for web/museum/technology type stuff, there’s just a mild possibility that you happened upon it by mistake, or simply fancy a complete change of scene. If so, I’ve just started a new blog all about being a dad the second time around. Plan is for it to be a fairly… [Read more…]
August 10, 2007
Computing “in the cloud” is where it’s obviously at. Amazon’s S3 service gives access to remote disk space which can be accessed via API’s; ditto EC2 for actually doing the processing. And then of course there’s numerous applications from Google Docs to Slideshare to web based email. Not to mention web based photo editors such… [Read more…]
August 6, 2007
I’m obviously coming really late to this (don’t you hate that?) because some people have been blogging about it for about ten days and there have already been 422 video responses already, but better late than never… Google have asked users to “imagine how an email message travels around the world” – you print out… [Read more…]
August 6, 2007
Back in May 2007, there was a sudden spike in interest around the “outing” of over 6,000 images from Smithsonian Images by a body calling itself public.resource.org. Essentially, they consider the images to be largely public domain, and therefore did something about it, scraping them from the Smithsonian Images site, embedding some metadata and then… [Read more…]
August 6, 2007
Microsoft have released another demo for Photosynth, this time of space shuttle Endeavour on the launchpad. To date I’ve *almost* loved this technology – the means by which the software automatically patches together bits of images is ridiculously cool. The end result is very slick, but feels slightly as if the presentation is more important… [Read more…]
August 5, 2007
Last week Kurt Stuchell did a potentially interesting thing by setting up a Ning site for Museums. He called it the Museum and Educational Social Network (MESN) and so far it seems to be gathering some traction as a place to interact about all things Museumy. With Facebook on everybody’s lips and screens at the… [Read more…]
August 2, 2007
I got involved with Netvibes a long time ago, first as a user and then briefly when I helped them out with some dodgy English translations. That’s how I came to be invited to set up a Netvibes Universe before the beta was opened to the public. If you haven’t used or come across Netvibes,… [Read more…]
August 2, 2007
I’m looking for more beta testers for Stufflinker, my mobile and social bookmarking tool. Stufflinker lets you save thoughts, urls and other, er, stuff, while you’re out and about using text messages, as well as the creation of ‘stufftags’ which link through to specific content on the web. To take part in the beta you… [Read more…]
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