By danbri | Published:
2008-5-31
From the Yahoo developer network blog,
Besides the existing support for microformats, we have already shared our plans for supporting other standards for embedding metadata into HTML. Today we are announcing the availability of eRDF metadata for SearchMonkey applications, which will soon be followed by support for RDFa. SearchMonkey applications can make direct use of the [...]
By danbri | Published:
2008-5-31
How could this not be a fun way to spend 6 months?
Obama for America is looking for exceptionally talented web developers who want to play a key role in a historic political campaign and help elect Barack Obama as the next President of the United States.
This six-month opportunity will allow you to:
Create software tools which [...]
By danbri | Published:
2008-5-31
Another day, another local Semantic Web group. This time in Austin, Texas…
Via former ILRT colleague Joel Crisp, I just stumbled on their Facebook group. Hope they don’t kick me out when they find out I’m not from around there. Seems a Web site may be coming soon too. For those inside Hotel Facebook, I just [...]
By danbri | Published:
2008-5-29
Interesting applied SemWeb job, from public-semweb-lifesci:
The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) is one of the seven National Centers for Biomedical Computing supported by the NIH Roadmap. The NCBO is administered at Stanford University, with partners at the Mayo Clinic, the University at Buffalo, the University of Victoria, and UCSF. The Center provides national technological [...]
By danbri | Published:
2008-5-29
Just found this interesting presentation,
Map-Reduce-Merge: Simpli?ed Relational Data Processing on Large Clusters
by Hung-chih Yang, Ali Dasdan Ruey-Lung Hsiao, D. Stott Parker; as presented by Nate Rober (PDF)
Excerpts:
Extending MapReduce
1. Change to reduce phase
2. Merge phase
3. Additional user-de?nable operations
a. partition selector
b. processor
c. merger
d. con?gurable iterators
Implementing Relational Algebra Operations
1. Projection
2. Aggregation
3. Selection
4. Set Operations: Union, Intersection, Difference
5. [...]
By danbri | Published:
2008-5-28
Much cleverness:
In this way, I was able to put together a geographic bounding box query, on top of Google App Engine, using a Geohash-like algorithm as a storage format, and use that query to power a FeatureServer Demo App Engine application, doing geographic queries of non-point features on top of App Engine/BigTable. Simply create a [...]
Posted in Geo, coding, ggg |
By danbri | Published:
2008-5-27
Hidden away beneath Lawrence Hill lies a secret world - an underground Victorian street stretching from Ducie Road to the Packhouse pub.
Local historian Dave Stephenson finds out more.
For many years I had heard tales of a Victorian street abandoned beneath busy Lawrence Hill. To add substance to the legend there were people who claimed to [...]
By danbri | Published:
2008-5-26
Via Libby; Bruce Schneier on data:
In the information age, we all have a data shadow.
We leave data everywhere we go. It’s not just our bank accounts and stock portfolios, or our itemized bills, listing every credit card purchase and telephone call we make. It’s automatic road-toll collection systems, supermarket affinity cards, ATMs and so [...]
By danbri | Published:
2008-5-23
From Wei on the oauth list:
We are happy to announce that the Google Contacts Data API now supports OAuth. This is our first step towards OAuth enabling all Google Data APIs. Please note that this is an alpha release and we may make changes to the protocol before the official release.
See announcement thread for endpoint [...]