How will the recent schema.org announcement regarding RDFa support affect uptake of OpenGraph? One to watch.
A plan to hold a WordPress event, similar to wordcamp, but a one day gig in Portsmouth during spring 2012.
One to watch. DBpedia already extracts a lot of data from Wikipedia. This should improve things, but I doubt it’ll be a complete replacement for some time.
rNews 1.0 has been published. Now we wait with baited breath to see who adopts it.
A conference in Bali with track on web-based education. Currently in CFP stage, deadline 13 Jan 2012
Aurora 10′s just landed and it includes the Page Visibility API – enabling JS apps to know when they’re in the background, and thus throttle down, or perhaps get on with some housekeeping that woudl otherwise interrupt the user.
For some time now I’ve given a presentation called “The Future of The Web” wherein I propose that “Information is the new oil”. We are at a turning point for humanity where we are generating broad and deep information across the globe, but unlike oil and gold before it, the amount of information increases annually, …
A blog covering all aspects of thematic mapping – i.e. projecting data onto maps using APIs.
The sentiment analysis part of this API might be useful for several project students who want to look into the statistics of public opinion without spending a lifetime writing the core software.
A new set of data visualisation norms is beginning to emerge on the web. For that to happen, there need to be simple tools, that enable larger numbers of people to want to publishing their data in forms that can be made beautiful. These are some very useful tools.
This is really quite beautiful. If you’re involved in open source projects, or if you use software version control for your own projects, gource can turn the developing directory tree into a movie, with each committer tending to the nodes over time. It’s more like watching gardeners planting and pruning than sterile software development.
Michael Buckland’s 1997 article reflecting on the way we think about documents and semiotics has particular relevance when starting to think about linked data as more and more physical objects and properties are addressed.
Neat example of how an old school platform puzzle can easily make the jump to the web using HTML5′s canvas element and JavaScript.
A tool for extracting and translating between rdfa, microdata, n3, nt, xml, rdf-json, trix, and pretty versions of some of the above (if you’re intending to read it).
Event performance improvements look very useful – trimming the fat from the API layer is key to performant apps.
This is wonderful stuff. THink Blu-Tack, but imagine any shape you can make can set in 24 hours and remain stuck indefinitely. Brilliant for small repairs. Especially useful for attaching lights, cameras and other odd shaped tools to helmets and bikes.
Tab Atkins writes a brief but too oft required glossary of CSS terms.
Students considering (or already studying) a PhD might like to take a look into Google’s funding opportunities.
Key to effective teaching is the conveyance of Threshold Concepts – gateways that impart irreversible thought patterns and new ontological structures allowing the learner to overcome hitherto troublesome knowledge.
Call for Participation of interest to anyone wanting heterogeneous data unification in a common data model. Of interest to me… performance & management of data.