The next WWW will be linked data, rather than linked documents, according to guru Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web | Video on TED.com.
[Originally seen on ReadWriteWeb's blog post.]
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Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web | Video on TED.com
May 26th, 2009PageGlimpse for website screenshots
May 24th, 2009
Just started using the PageGlimpse API to show thumbnails of websites I reference, like the one above. Check out their site (http://www.pageglimpse.com/) for more details and documentation. Very very simple!
How Google and Facebook are using R : Dataspora Blog
May 12th, 2009I’m a little behind the times, but I just saw this posting of how Google and Facebook are using R, my favorite new tool: How Google and Facebook are using R : Dataspora Blog. From the CRAN network to the easy chart/graph construction, R makes data analysis dangerously easy. Maybe too easy??? I mean, all those formulae have to mean something, right? I just scratch the surface of R with my tinkering, but it is clearly a very potent tool for crunching lots of numbers. And who has more data to crunch than Google? I mean, with a database called “Big Table” who doubts that they’re the biggest brother on the block.
Anyway, I plan on using R more and more in the coming months. Maybe I’ll be able to hear more about how Google is using it, too.
Google’s appengine supports Java now!
April 11th, 2009Google just rolled out Java support for their AppEngine, which previously only supported Python. This is great news since it opens the whole AppEngine to Java programmers (or at least those of us who know Java better than Python;). They say it’s an early release, but it’s a step in the right direction!
I’ve downloaded the Eclipse plugin, installed it, and generated both an GWT and plain JSP for my site. Creation was easy, uploading was a snap, and running it worked well. There are only two complaints/notes:
1. Installation of the Eclipse plugin froze the Eclipse app twice. I killed the Eclipse process and re-tried the installation. It worked the third time. No problems since.
2. Versioning is weak. I tried to upload a new app and label it version 1.1, but the upload failed. It only worked when I provided an integer value. Seems silly that versions have to be integers. Oh well…
Otherwise, works great. I look forward to learning the new features.
MindRaider – Semantic Web Outliner
April 4th, 2009Found this nice Java app that takes the whole concept of semantic web to an implementable level: MindRaider – Semantic Web Outliner. I’ve been using InfoHesive by 2brightsparks but would welcome a cross-browser tool. Java Outline Editor, Freemind and 3D TopicScape (which just released a new version, BTW) are other tools I like, but neither has all the features in one package. MindRaider looks like it just might… Off to the tests…
