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And Microsoft’s revolutionary ‘Origami’ project is…

March 9th, 2006 3 Comments
… A small, ugly tablet PC with pitiful 3 hour battery life. Awesome work guys.

Introducing the Q1, Dr David Steel, Samsung’s vice president of digital media business, said: This is a very good sign of convergence coming into the computer industry.Now the consumer has a single mobile computing device that combines the mobile functionality [...]

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More uses for hAtom

March 1st, 2006 1 Comment

Fatty isn’t convinced by my favoured hAtom use-case for providing Comment Feeds, so I’ve got two more reasons why hAtom might yet save the world.

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hAtom 0.1 Microformat published

February 28th, 2006 6 Comments
I like Microformats. The potential for doing Really Useful Stuff with the internet is immense: Embedding events and contact information into regular (X)HTML pages, representing relationships and now, describing feeds.

At first glance, people might wonder what the point of the hAtom µF is. Every blogging CMS under the sun already offers content feeds, why [...]

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Gmail Chat

February 11th, 2006 2 Comments

Google integrates chat logging into Gmail. Produces more shite mark-up.

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Unification of Disparate Services: ‘profile.xml’

February 1st, 2006 11 Comments

On trying to join up the internet: Every person’s website includes a file called �profile.xml� that describes public profiles and membership of other standalone webservices. It’s a very vague sketchy idea and I want to know if it’s worth pursuing. Is it really useful? Does it go some way to helping us towards Identity 2.0? Are there glaring architectural flaws that I’ve just missed?

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