Mashup* June – Location-based services
I went to the Mashup* event for this month, all about location-based services. There was a team from TeleAtlas giving a talk, a lively panel debate and then some networking fuelled by a free bar....
View ArticleTiddlyWiki WidgetBox “Blidget” macro
I’ve spent some time recently editing the content for the new Osmosoft.com website, which should be going live very soon. I think it is very important that we communicate with our readers and one of...
View ArticleEditors, editors, everywhere and not a lot of links
Edit: I’ve updated the list of editors below after some good leads in the comments. So… I’ve been pottering around the web looking for a decent development environment to free me from the shackles of...
View ArticleThe Ignorance of Nick Carr
Thanks to Otti for pointing out this article by Nick Carr, entitled the Ignorance of Crowds. It’s a look back at Eric Raymond’s seminal paper, the 10-yr old “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”, in which he...
View ArticleAll the news in your TiddlyWiki
I’ve put together a TiddlyWiki plugin that renders the output of a Yahoo! Pipes news feed aggregator into your TiddlyWiki. There is some basic checking for different formats of news feed when gathering...
View ArticleYahoo! Pipe plugin update (back from holiday too)
Hi! In case you were wondering why I haven’t posted for a while, I had a week off in Ireland, which was lovely. I went to Dublin towards the end of the week and can fully recommend those bus tours, as...
View ArticleBusiness in the Facebook
This is for those who find themselves looking at Facebook and LinkedIn and thinking, “hey, that would be really cool inside my company…” A lot of different groups – and if you’re reading this, you’re...
View ArticleNew TiddlyWiki plugin: Freebase integration
I’ve just put up a TiddlyWiki containing an explanation and demo of my latest plugin, which provides a visual interface for querying and writing to the Freebase database. The idea with this is to...
View ArticleWe need a mashup runtime
After conversation with Cefn Hoile yesterday, I drew this: I’m starting with a view of the Internet as a series of sexy services that we might want to mash together. But there’s a problem with this,...
View ArticleToo many cooks spoil the DOM (getting content out of page elements)
I frequently find myself wanting to refer to the contents of an element on a web page, having got hold of that element in the DOM. However, I equally frequently forget how to access this content. The...
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