Posted in General, Semantic Web on Feb 22nd, 2006 Comments
I noticed that the podcast mp3s from the future of web apps conference a couple of weeks ago are up on the site.
I really enjoyed and would especially recommend Tom Coates ‘Native to a web of data’ presentation for those that are interested in web 2.0 and semantic webby stuff. His slides (to go with […]
Posted in Semantic Web, workfriendly on Feb 20th, 2006 Comments
I was having a discussion with somebody at a conference recently about merging data on a large scale, and how the differing ‘contexts’ under which the data is created make global merging difficult. He asked me to define what I meant by the ‘context’ of the data. It’s a wooly term I’d been using for […]
Posted in General, Blog, workfriendly, rss on Feb 1st, 2006 Comments
For the purpose of future discussions, I’d like to distinguish between stateful and stateless rss aggregation.
A stateless aggregator is one which just consumes and represents the current information in an rss feed (or set of rss feeds). It doesn’t remember items that were previously on an RSS feed, and so is effectively just rendering the […]
