Category Archives: RSS/Atom

RSS, Atom and Web syndication formats.

Linked TV (part 1): Why APIs and identifiers matter

By danbri | Published: 2009-10-9

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 [...]

Also posted in Activism, Essays, FOAF, Jabber/XMPP, Project ideas, SocialWeb, Technology, Web Technology, coding, ggg, tv | 1 Comment

Embedding queries in RDF – FOAF Group example

By danbri | Published: 2008-1-22

Is this crazy or useful? Am not sure yet.
This example uses FOAF vocabulary for groups and openid. So the basic structure here is that Agents (including persons) can have an :openid and can be a :member of a :Group.
From an openid-augmented Wordpress, we get a list of all the openids my blog knows about. From [...]

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planetplanet foafrolls

By danbri | Published: 2007-11-5

The PlanetPlanet feed reader (and the Venus variant) exposes its blogroll via RDF/FOAF, typically at “/foafroll.xml” URIs. I ran through the list of Planet installations from the main site, and found the following, which might be interesting for experimentation, crawling, whitelist work etc. Or you could just make a giant feedlist and install Venus yourself, [...]

Also posted in FOAF, RDF, Semantic Web, Technology | 1 Comment

Widgetarians.org updated to use Planet Venus

By danbri | Published: 2007-10-31

The Widgetarians.org feed aggregator is now running Venus, Sam Ruby’s reworking of the Planet codebase. I had been getting sporadic “KeyError” errors; with the upgrade, that’s gone away. Many thanks to Sam Ruby, Scott James Remnant and Jeff Waugh for some handy software :)

Also posted in RDF, Semantic Web, Technology | 1 Comment

IM/RSS bot – BBC Persian News Flash

By danbri | Published: 2007-9-10

OK this is old news, but pretty cool so I’m happy to write it up belatedly.
I just logged into MSN chat, and was greeted by Mario Menti’s IM bot, which provides a text-chat UI for navigating the BBC’s news feeds from their Persian service. I’m pasting the output here, hoping it’ll display reasonably. I can’t [...]

Also posted in RDF, Rating and Filtering, Technology | 1 Comment

Flickr’d

By danbri | Published: 2007-9-2

Just renewed my Flickr-Pro account for 2 years, ensuring an irregular supply of pigeon, fish and other misc depictions.
I wasn’t 100% happy with the wording of their terms though.
To participate in Flickr pro, you must have a valid Yahoo! ID and, solely if you have not received a free offer or gift for [...]

Also posted in Image Description, RDF, Technology | 6 Comments

Open Source Flash Development and WorldKit

By danbri | Published: 2005-10-22

Handy article, “Towards Open Source Flash Development” by Carlos Rovira.
Background to looking at this is some great news: Mikel Maron is open-sourcing the WorldKit system, a lightweight Flash/SWF-based Web mapping application. So I’m interested to find some open source tools that would allow me to rebuild it from source.
I also wonder whether [...]

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Flickr’d photos via Yahoo! Maps (geo-extended RSS 2.0)

By danbri | Published: 2005-7-27

As a contrast to the GML/KML and Google-related posts, here is an annotated Yahoo! map, derrived from geo-extended RSS 2.0 markup. I tried feeding the service a variant of RSS 1.0 last week (albeit with the Yahoo! extensions implicitly in the RSS namespace) and it seemed to work. They don’t yet have worldwide coverage, [...]

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Data syndication

By danbri | Published: 2005-7-1

There have been various developments in the last week, via Planet RDF, on the topic of data syndication using RSS/Atom.
Edd Dumbill on iTunes RSS extensions; a handy review of the extensions they’ve added to support a “podcasting” directory. See also comments from Danny.
Nearby in the Web, Yahoo! and friends are still busy with [...]

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