Old Post Category: Mashups & Web services

Update: Data Availability is not Data Portability or: Looking to BEATNIK

Just a quick round-up and update to yesterday’s post about the data hippie bandwagon: TechCrunch wrote a piece in which “data portability” is referred to as “The New Walled Garden”

May 16, 2008

Data Availability, Data Portability and Everyone Else on the Data Hippie Bandwagon

Data Availability or Data Portability – who do you trust? MySpace’s recent announcement to adopt a number of ‘data availability standards’, together with Facebook’s Connect and Google’s Friend Connect announcements

May 15, 2008

Is OpenCalais becoming a Search Engine?

From the very beginning I was wondering, what Reuters is going to do with all that data generated by OpenCalais. So I took a moment and browsed through the Privacy

Mar 31, 2008

What is Driving User-Generated Content?

Whether you are using Google Earth, NASA World Wind or MS Virtual Earth: I think we have all had our few mesmerized moments when first playing with one of these

Feb 27, 2008