Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

history of computing project

Early personal computers were nothing like present day c... personality!
Each was different and more exciting than the previous, ...
sharp-pc7000 This website is dedicated to the preservati ...

Piggy bank runs scrapers it grabs from arbitrary third p... formal technical, as well as social rituals and supporti... mechanisms for controlling the risk this creates.
Formal technical mechanisms certainly means finding a wa ...
Social mechinisms (and

Piggy Bank is a Firefox extension that turns your browse... platform, by allowing you to extract data from different... them together.
Piggy Bank also allows you to store this extracted infor ...

When the coalition announced that councils would have to... spending over £500 by January next year, there’s been... excitement in the open data and transparency community a...
Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government Er ...
Now, howeve

The process of adding RDFa to Best Buy's webpages began ... the company began to look for ways to get more visibilit...
To solve this dilemma, Best Buy gave each store its own ...
Best Buy employees entered information into the blogs ev ...
Best Buy is

GoodRelations - The Web Ontology for E-Commerce
GoodRelations is a standardized vocabulary for product, ...

budget deficit
Total government debt now stands at £890bn - equivalent ...
The £163.4bn borrowed is equivalent to 11.6% of GDP.

J4P5 is a JavaScript interpreter written in PHP 5, that ... untrusted scripts in a sandbox on your server. It aims t... of Ecma-262 3d edition.

This scripting language interpreter is implemented in PH... execute user-supplied JavaScript-lookalike code server-s... compromising security because everything runs safely in ... of course much slower than a real interpreter, but is us... integration

One thing that I absolutely adore is the sheer embeddabi...
Since JavaScript, alone, is so dumb (we've become spoile ...
We can start by taking a look at some of the most popula ...
One thing is the same in all the interpreter implementat ...
... it gen

Alcatel-Lucent has flipped the traditional API revenue m...
By creating a commercially packaged bundle of APIs, deve ...
Don't max out your credit cards with API calls. Instead, ...

Caja allows websites to safely embed DHTML web applicati... parties, and enables rich interaction between the embedd... embedded applications. It uses an object-capability secu... allow for a wide range of flexible security policies, so... containing

Firefox 3.5 introduces support for DOM workers. These a... that can be easily created and can send messages back to... Creating a worker is as simple as calling the Worker() c... specifying a script to be run in the worker thread.

The Public Sector Transparency Board, which was establis... Minister, met yesterday for the first time.
The Board will drive forward the Government’s transpar ...

Together with Morten Frederiksen and Dan Brickley (who i... SparqlPress idea), I've created a WordPress extension (c... that adds an (ARC-based) RDF Store and SPARQL Endpoint t... system. The store is kept separate from the WP tables (i... wrapper), b

Connect as a first class action in the browser
Today’s Web is highly personalized. If you take a look ...
The experience of signing up and connecting to sites, ho ...
Even new technologies such as OpenID still require a sim ...
... ead more about Mozill

Knowee is a web address book that lets you integrate dis... graph fragments.
Subscribe to profiles, feeds, or other structured data a ...
Knowee concept Knowee is based on open standards and sem ...

Facebook OpenGraph and Social plugins for WordPress (new...
* Open Graph Social Plugins (New!), like, activity a ...
* Build a community
* Login using your Facebook account
... * Facebook user email store

Loader generator

SnapTell Visual Search
Snap. Send. Get.
Visual Search is transforming the way customers search, ...
With our visual product matching service that powers bot ...
... pp from the App Store™, or find out more from SnapTell

Create easily your own ajax loader icon :
1. Select the type of indicator you want
2. Enter the background code color you want
(tick "Transparent background" if you don't want one
... Press "Generate it"

or the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been dev... expect will be the world’s most advanced “question a... machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday... — “natural language,” as computer scientists call ...
With Watson

June 11, 2010, 1:24 pm
The Defense of Computers, the Internet and Our Brains
By NICK BILTON
brain scan while on the computerCharles Baldwin for The ...
... and conversation, is the quintessential place to learn.

Twitter's old hat if you've used The Notificator
Social networking, 1935-style
* Digg it (53)
* Buzz up
... More features

Adding OAuth authentication to your server is very easy....
You will need a couple of controllers:
1. oauth_register.php to let an user obtain a consume ...
2. request_token.php to return a request token.
... xchange an authorized request token for

MySQL was initially chosen as their database of choice b... simple, fast and reliable. All told, they have about 60... runtime experience without data loss or corruption due t... like most megascale services they often end up using MyS... key<->value

Public Sector
Monthly: £9.3 current budget
Graphs showing cumulative public sector finance and net debt
Graphs showing cumulative public sector finance and net debt
... Published on 21 May 2010 at 9:30 am

In a letter to the Sunday Times, a group of economists h... government to "set out a detailed plan to reduce the str... deficit more quickly than set out in the 2009 pre-budget... raises one of my gripes - that the notion of a structura... is unhelpfu