I don’t talk about my personal life on this website often. Most of that gets written at Zef.Nu, my Dutch website. However now I will also give those who are unfurtunate enough not to speak Dutch, and those who are not willing to learn it just to read about my life, a bit of insightContinue reading “Plans”
Monthly Archives: June 2006
Forum 2.0
With blogging going mainstream, do we still really need forums in their current form? I think it might be time for a shift. But before I begin talking about that, let’s define what forums and blogs are to make the differences clear. A forum is a place, a website, where people with similar interests gather.Continue reading “Forum 2.0”
Exit WinFS
Remember WinFS? Windows Future Storage or Windows File System or whatever it meant? Yes one of the three pillars of Longhorn (now Windows Vista). Look, here it is: (Source) WinFS was supposed to be the big change in how you managed your data. It would be super easy to search any kind of data. ItContinue reading “Exit WinFS”
23
When somebody gave me the idea for this I was like, yeah, I’m not going to do a geeky thing like that. But I figured, by this time next year I’ll be studying English and probably quote something Shakespear said, so what the heck. import pyrdffrom pyrdf import RdfStore, RdfResource, RdfTypefrom rdflib.Namespace import Namespace NS_PContinue reading “23”
All Marketers are Liars
It’s interesting to see how different people respond differently to a post like The Store. A post that doesn’t seem to make much sense. Long Zheng sent me something quite interesting in response: a link to this video about marketing by Seth Godin (whose last name, incidentally, is the Dutch word for goddess). It’s aContinue reading “All Marketers are Liars”
PyRDF
Yesterday’s post and comments got me thinking. It still is fairly hard to manipulate and generate RDF data and I don’t think it really has to be. ActiveRDF (a Ruby RDF API) takes an interesting approach and I thought I’d build something similarish in Python, so I started that and after a couple of hoursContinue reading “PyRDF”
Me, Myself and RDF
For the past three months or so I have been working on my dissertation full time. I think I mentioned before that it was about context-aware semantic service matching on ad-hoc networks, and more specifically, developing middleware (APIs) to allow developers to do this more easily. I’m not going to talk about this project muchContinue reading “Me, Myself and RDF”
The Store
If I would open a store, would you buy anything? If I would start selling bananas would you come and buy some? Or apples or pears? Maybe something very different. Let me see. Tires for your bike. Everybody needs tires. Well unless you don’t have a bike or car. But most people do. I don’t,Continue reading “The Store”
Moving from OS X to Linux
Me? No don’t worry. But some very notable people (in my opinion anyway) are either considering it, or doing it: moving from OS X to Linux. Mark Pilgrim, who has been using Macs for over 20 years and who is well known for his weblogs and (online) books on Python, OS X and other things,Continue reading “Moving from OS X to Linux”
Picasa Web Albums, the Point?
I like Google, I like their philosphy, and I thought I knew their business model. Google changed Sun’s slogan “the network is the computer” into “the web is the computer”. One step at a time they’re replacing desktop applications with web applications, making money from content-based advertising. If you are reading an e-mail from yourContinue reading “Picasa Web Albums, the Point?”
