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 Boxee, with a tiny Python script exposing some of its localhost HTTP API to the wider network via XMPP. [...]
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 (eg. wired up to Web-based video playing in OpenSocial apps), but even if not it has been a [...]
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 endpoint identified by a Jabber/XMPP JID (i.e. Jabber ID). In my case, I’m connecting to XMPP as the user xmpp:buttons@foaf.tv, who is [...]
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 discussion over on cocoadev.com tells you more than you probably wanted to know. My experiments are written up in a corner [...]
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 users better find (and annotate, tag, cross-link etc.) content that is interesting to them. The growing amount of linked RDF data [...]
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 looks like this: <foaf:ChatChannel rdf:about=”irc://irc.freenode.net/swig”> <foaf:chatEventList> <rdf:Seq> <rdf:li> <foaf:chatEvent rdf:ID=”T00-05-11″> <dc:date>2008-04-03T00:05:11Z</dc:date> <dc:description> danbri: do you know of good [...]
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 Flash, included inline here, or a pdf). I have some rough speaking notes too, maybe I’ll get those online. I have no idea [...]
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 contains. The latest snooping device on the nation’s roads aims to penalise lone drivers who abuse [...]
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 acronym averse, a quick recap. XMPP is the name the IETF give to the Jabber messaging [...]