Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Many of the emerging technologies that will be entering ... are already known in some form in 2008, according to Gar... industry analysts examined seven of these long-term inno... “IT Grand Challenges” — and what IT leaders ought ... them now, d

I have written a wrapper to expose openlibrary.org api d... written in Python and deployed on Google App Engine. It ... illustration of Linked Data publication, and in order to... feedback, so do not rely on it in your application since... content wil

Presenting the Orb
nadeem.shabir | | Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Working with his father, Ron Sears, Nick Sears is design ...

In spite of the stability and popularity of the Self-Org... at least two limitations have to be noted, which are rel... hand, to the static architecture of this model, as well ... hand, to the limited capabilities for the representation...
With our no

Recent advances have made it possible for computers to l... physical objects via small sensors. At the same time, di... has developed to the point where the standard desktop di... the only computer display. Computer displays may range f...
A physical

To create systems that facilitate individual everyday ph... activities (Pederson, 2006). This implies to explore the... possibilities of decreasing the gap between the physical... virtual (computational) world (Pederson, 2003) using met... technologie

Theodore Roosevelt
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the pres ...
-- Theodore Roosevelt

I've been semi-silently working on something new. A comb...
* semantic markup
* smart data
* an rdf clipboard
... e is up, and today I created a first teaser/intro video.

poshRDF is an approach (and, as a by-product, an RDF-in-... efficiently extract RDF from (many) microformats and sim...
It's also possible to use the POSH definitions and creat ...
RDF Schemas for common POSH formats
* microformats

Did you know that one in every ten people in the world l... There is even a word for a “craze or a strong attracti... islomania!

Ghost Towns of the American West are what come to mind f... think of abandoned settlements. However, there are fasci... abandonments all over the world. Some of these have a cl... reason for being deserted, while the abandonment of othe... mystery. He

This paper explores principles governing the rational ba... agent's beliefs, goals, actions, and intentions. Such pr... specifications for artificial agents, and approximate a ... action (as philosophers use the term). By making explici... under which

Dive into OpenID
There are a lot of great guides to getting started with ...
* http://www.plaxo.com/api/openid_recipe
* http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2007/01/03/OpenID ...
... are still being discussed and evolved by the community.

The web is better when it's social
The web is more interesting when you can build apps that ...
OpenSocial defines a common API for social applications ...
Many sites, one API
A common API means you have less to learn to build for m ...

Free social software
* Dutch
Share information quickly and easily with Dutch; o ...
* Roundhouse
... A collaborative networking suite.

Silo free living.
Social networks are becoming more open, more interconnec ...
DiSo (dee • soh) is an initiative to facilitate the cr ...
Our first target is Wordpress, bootstrapping on existing ...
... * …and others

I've been brainstorming about a way to make a distribute... using OpenID. The goals I have for such a network are:
1. Use OpenID for global identities.
2. If you have an account on service A, and I have an ...
3. Some sort of output format that

What is NoseRub?
NoseRub is a protocol.
What currently can be downloaded is just an example impl ...
How is it a »decentralised« social network?
... . You can build anything on top of the NoseRub protocol.

Palo Alto, 2003. Keep people at the center of your work!... help. Look at what they do. Learn from the facts you gat... yourself! Ideo has become a leader in design by keeping ... center of the design process. These cards show some of t... to inspire

Social Lending is where people lend and borrow money wit... sidestepping the banks. And the more you think about it,... sense.

Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is the study of how peo... implement, and use interactive computer systems, and how... individuals, organizations, and society. HCI is a resear...
At the same time that a human-centered approach to syste ...
This report

1. Problems and issues in HCI.
In this section I have placed a summary of an article by ...
2. Different research directions.
This section features a summary of an article called Fou ...
... nferences, journals, information on publishers and more.

I have set this blog up as part of the DEPtH (Design for... project. Over the next few weeks I will be designing a s... both traditonal and ‘new’ design tools. The traditio... that of skteching, CAD, simple blue foam prototyping etc...
I intend to

International Journal of Visual Analytics (IJVA)
An Official Publication of the Information Resources Man ...
Editor-in-Chief: Mehdi Ghods, The Boeing Company, USA;
Description:
... tions, as well as related book reviews and case studies.

The old excuse 'I've left my wallet at home' will soon n... it's your round. A nightclub is about to offer its regul... having a microchip implanted in their arm that will obvi... carry cash or plastic.
Queuing for entry or a drink at the bar would als

Captain Cyborg, aka Professor Kevin Warwick of Reading U... generally a harmless if somewhat tedious self-publicist ... 'experiments' pay his rent and provide the less critical...
Following the recent abduction of ten year olds Holly We ...
And guess w

Sinister or not, its use at Baja Beach Club seems in kee... surroundings. "It's very suitable for this kind of place... body-aware," says René Lönngren, who runs the Barcelon... cool. "In an atmosphere where it is all muscles/tits/bod... attracted b

Surviving plans and architectural drawings seem to be re...
object date location
coordinates for arch or vault Djoser Cairo
plan of garden or temple Mentuhotep II New York MMA 22 ...
... plan of temple in Heliopolis Late Period Turin 2682