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Considering how xmpp could sit alongside http to provide a more elegant solution to two way messaging on the web e.g. so RSS readers could be ‘informed’ when there’s an update rather than polling all the feeds.
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OpenSocial has very little, if anything, to do with data portability it’s really just a common platform for writing gadgets. Google are really missing out here – without being able to easily share and move data around we’re all stuck in our walled gardens
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You get a link back by email, with a beautifully organized itinerary, showing all your travel data plus maps, weather reports, and all the confirmation numbers for your flights and address for your hotels and so on.
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In response to Google’s use of them in conjunction with AdWords. QR codes seem to be everywhere now, even bbc.co.uk/programmes ;) be interesting to see if Joel is right on this one.
NOTED ELSEWHERE- Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings [Official Google Blog]The Knowledge Graph enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows about—landmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams, buildings, geographical features, movies, celestial objects, works of art and more—and instantly get information that’s relevant to your query. This is a critical first step towards building the next generation of searc […]
- Welcome to the Knowledge Graph [Talis Consulting]"There has been lots of previous work on creating semantic search engines that include natural language parsing to “understand” more about a user’s query and its contents. But what Google are doing is looking at the search results to identify the things that are frequently referenced, and then surface useful summaries of those things from their Knowledg […]
- Using "Punning" to Answer httpRange-14 [Jeni's Musings]This is very good - both in terms of core web architecture principals and an approach to the ongoing httoRange-14 debate.
- Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings [Official Google Blog]
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Joel’s not so convinced that QR codes are a good idea … “typing URLs is not hard….”
Really? .. typing in a url? … on a mobile phone? … from an advertising poster? … on the tube? … whilst going up the escalator? … not so hard? … please!