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find . -name danbri-\*.rdf -exec rapper –count {} \; rapper: Parsing file ./facebook/danbri-fb.rdf rapper: Parsing returned 2155 statements rapper: Parsing file ./orkut/danbri-orkut.rdf rapper: Parsing...
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Begin again
There was an old man named Michael Finnegan He went fishing with a pinnegan Caught a fish and dropped it in again Poor old Michael Finnegan Begin again. Let me clear something up. Danny mentions a...
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FOAF diagram (day 2)
FOAF diagram (day 2) Originally uploaded by danbri Another revision, after feedback from Ivan. The original had “Thing” in italics (a convention I tried before adding in doap: dc: and sioc:...
View ArticleOpen social networks: bring back Iran
Three years ago, we lost Iran from Internet community. I simplify somewhat, but forgivably. Many Iranian ISPs cut off access to blogs and social networking sites, on government order. At the time, Iran...
View ArticleGoogle Social Graph API, privacy and the public record
I’m digesting some of the reactions to Google’s recently announced Social Graph API. ReadWriteWeb ask whether this is a creeping privacy violation, and danah boyd has a thoughtful post raising concerns...
View ArticlePublic Skype RDF presence service
OK I don’t know how this works, or how it happens (other Asemantics people might know more), but for those who didn’t know: At http://mystatus.skype.com/danbrickley.xml there is a public RDF/XML...
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JQbus: social graph query with XMPP/SPARQL
Righto, it’s about time I wrote this one up. One of my last deeds at W3C before leaving at the end of 2005, was to begin the specification of an XMPP binding of the SPARQL querying protocol. For the...
View ArticleBlood money
It’s in the Daily Mail, so it must be true: Motorists will be targeted by a new generation of road cameras which work out how many people are in a car by measuring the amount of bodily fluid it...
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“Stuff I’ve been thinking about” (SocialNetworkPortability WebCamp) – my slides
I’m in Cork, mainly for the excellent Social Network Portability event on Sunday, but am also staying through Blogtalk’08 which has been great. I’ve uploaded my slides from my talk (slideshare in...
View ArticleIRC RDF logs and foaf:chatEvent
For many years, the 24×7 IRC chatrooms #swig and #foaf (and previously #rdfig) have been logged to HTML and RDF by Dave Beckett‘s IRC logging code. The RDF idiom used here dates from 2001 or so, and...
View ArticleLinked TV (part 1): Why APIs and identifiers matter
In the NoTube project, we are exploring the use of Semantic Web technology in Television and Web-TV scenarios. By making use of richer and linked descriptions of content and users, we hope to help...
View ArticleApple Remote events – a quick howto
Anyone who has recently bought an Apple computer probably has one or more Apple Remotes. I have been learning how to access them. Conclusion: iremoted does 95% of what you probably need, and the...
View ArticleStreaming Apple Events over XMPP
I’ve just posted a script that will re-route the OSX Apple Remote event stream out across XMPP using the Switchboard Ruby library, streaming click-down and click-up events from the device out to any...
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Remote remotes
I’ve just closed the loop on last weekend’s XMPP / Apple Remote hack, using Strophe.js, a library that extends XMPP into normal Web pages. I hope I’ll find some way to use this in the NoTube project...
View ArticleXMPP untethered – serverless messaging in the core?
In the XMPP session at last february’s FOSDEM I gave a brief demo of some NoTube work on how TV-style remote controls might look with XMPP providing their communication link. For the TV part, I showed...
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