Tomorrow the MIX07 — a Microsoft congress for developers & designers — will take place in Las Vegas. There are some interesting topics as you can see in the sessions-section.
And you can find MP3-interviews at Channel9 with some of the speakers, where they talk a little bit about their presentations and topics.
With the AJAX Feed API, you can download any public Atom or RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can easily mash up feeds with your content and other APIs like the Google Maps API.
Whobar is a tool that allows users to login to a website using InfoCard, OpenID or i-names and makes it all transparent to the web application. Whobar is written in PHP, but works like a proxy, so the web application can be in any language.
A not really active project i think, but maybe worth a look.
After three years i’ll give Tinderbox another try and will play the next time a little bit with the 3.6.2 demo-version. My first impressions after this long period of time are ….. wait…. i will show it in a Tinderbox-Map to you ;)
Especially the “Geek charm” is a big pro. :)
Just found another posting about DBpedia in a blog of one of the developers. It tells you a little bit more about the backgrounds of this great project.
Just read something about the following project:
DBpedia.org is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia and to link other datasets on the Web to Wikipedia data.
Instead of searching the full-text of Wikipedia, it allows you to execute SPARQL-Queries on the data. With “the data” i mean RDF-Data. Because the goal of the DBpedia-project is to create a whole bunch of structured data out of the Wikipedia-texts.
A little search interface can be found at http://dbpedia.org/search/.
Oh dear, i have created an account at Flickr.com 13 days ago and it still says: “Your account is currently marked as pending, awaiting review by Flickr staff.”
I think it will took the whole 2 weeks, how they announced (“But it also means that it may take a week or two to review your new account.“).
I hope so. ;)
Oh, i love my new Wacom-Tablet. ;)
Just saw that ArgoUML offers a Java Web Start file for the latest stable version. Very usefull if you are en-route and want to create UML diagrams.
http://argouml-downloads.tigris.org/jws/argouml-latest-stable.jnlp
Ok, this post has nothing to do with technical stuff, but i found this product so amazing, that i have to write about it: the Banana Bunker.
It’s a wrapper for bananas. No more crushed bananas in your bag. :) Thats hot stuff.
Just found a nice little Flash/Amazon-Webservice Mashup. It shows pictures of products in a mosaic-style, and you are able to browse through them and can directly jump to Amazon. Really cool idea.
See it at www.coverpop.com
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Just found 2idi – an identity management site. Nice to avoid spam, because you only give your 2idi-name to other people and not your E-Mail-address. And they can contact you using the 2idi-site.
Only problem is, that it costs money. :)
After playing a little bit with Jaiku, i still can’t find an API where i can post messages to the service.
That would be a big constraint if there isn’t such an API. :(
Update: Because of jyri’s comment, my search has an end. And what an end! There is a whole developer-site for the Jaiku-service: http://devku.org/. Hooray! Thanks a lot. Looks really promising. Now let’s get started. ;)
The highly regarded Leo Laporte has switched to Jaiku — a Twitter copy-cat — and a lot of people are following him. But Jaiku looks really, really smooth to me and is definitely worth a test. :)