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XLDB 2011 conference - Observations
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Category: Technology
XLDB 2011 conference - Observations
My gas consumption is definitely going down :-)
Steve Jobs, 1955 - 2011
Isn’t automation supposed to help us do things faster?
REST in Practice in editing/review/correction state and available on Amazon
Blaise amazes again
Restfulie gets a home and a logo
Interview with Guilherme Silveira, creator of Restfulie
Restfulie
Restbucks hypermedia client? :-)
When patterns and frameworks get the job done
Unix turns 40 years old - “Unix is the best screwdriver ever built”
Woo hoo... pblog talks AtomPub
The growth of Acer and lightweight OSes
Blogging from the Mac
Cool application of augmented reality
Google Chrome OS
Double WOW...
Wow… “The controller is you”
Jim is training the world :-)
Wolfram|Alpha – A knowledge computational engine
Cool Facebook experiences
Apologies for the disruption in service
Location awareness and semantic data mashups
My digital timeline
Apologies for the many “daily notes” posts
Trying to get control of my data
Wow... impressed with my Zune...
New blog engine and look & feel
"Not cool enough to be a Mac person"
World Wide Telescope using Silverlight
Creative Commons and Ontology Add-ins for Office
Beta 2 of "Famulus" is Live!
A DSL that changes itself?
Xbox 360 is dead again
Warning: Changes coming to this blog. Also... Do you have suggestions for a new name?
Excellent presentation on "Identity 2.0"
Nice little feature in IE8
2TB disk for $300!
Windows 7
S-Expressions vs XML
"Eventually Consistent"
"Biohackers"
Knowledge representation... not the best example :-)
"Web" vs "REST" APIs
1TB sort done in 68 seconds by Google
PDC 08: Day 3 Highlights
PDC 08: Day 2 Highlights
PDC 08: Day 1 Highlights
Podcast about Famulus and supporting the Scholarly Communications lifecycle
Research-Output Repository Platform (codename Famulus) Beta 1 is Live!
SWORD plugin for Word 2007
“Microsoft SQL Server Data Mining Services”
“I’m a PC” ad campaign
My online identity... change it or keep the current one?
Freebase Parallax
"How Do I Model State? Let Me Count the Ways"
Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Chem4Word project
Extending "Famulus" using arbitrary data models
Having coding fun the Web 2.0 way
Stunning visualization from the BBC
F# for Scientists
Research Output Repository Platform
Creative Commons Addin for Office 2007
Supporting the Scholarly Communication Lifecycle
.NetMap available on CodePlex
Amazon’s recent S3 problems
Three day of Mapping and Reducing…
Amusing analogy of Google’s daily processing power