Archive for the ‘Interesting’ Category

How to add semantics to content? embed it in the tools

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Through reading an interesting post by Chris Dixon titled "To make smarter systems, it's all about the data", I came across another interesting link in one of the comments - the google research blog post on "The unreasonable effectiveness of data".

The post links to a PDF document written by three Google researchers, and covers a subject I've been experimenting with a lot lately - the semantic extraction of data.
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If you like t-shirts, check this out

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

My good friend and Octabox co-founder, Tal Zubalsky, is a graphic designer by trade. He is also an avid t-shirts fan and therefor a threadless fan (who isn't? ;) ).

He has recently decided to have a go at a t-shirt design himself, and came up with this brilliant concept which I think is pretty awesome. If you like t-shirts and have a threadless account, please take the time to have a look and vote for it (I'd really like to see it printed :P ).

Threadless design - Texas Gardener

A web 2.0 business model can work, and work well

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

The term web 2.0 has been frequently misused and misunderstood, however it is more than a buzz word - it defines a very real phenomenon in which user generated content can be the driving force behind an online site / service.

Some very well known and successful online entities can be considered as such - Wikipedia in which users contribute knowledge, Digg in which users help others find interesting articles by voting and facebook which is the current golden standard for social networking (in which user generated content - UGC - is a given).
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The life expectancy of IE6

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Internet Explorer 6 (abbr. IE6) is the biggest thorne in a web developer's behind at current times. This legacy browser, released almost 7 years ago, is known for its multitude of offenses on security and standards compliance and still has a sizeable user base to this day. Its market share makes it impossible for us developers to ignore it still, despite how much we would want to do just that.
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Processing… in Javascript

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

John Resig (of jQuery fame) has released 10 days ago a Javascript implementation of Processing, a Java based visualization language. (more...)