Monthly Archives: August 2007

The Germans got there first… mobile queue service

I’m in Berlin at the moment, which is an impressive city I think. No-one can criticise the Berliners for not being ambitious with their architecture. One of the places I visited today was Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. Incredibly, they operate a queueing service very much along the same lines as one that some of us were [...]

We 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, which is that we can’t get them to talk directly to one another, so setting up mashups without some [...]

New 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 provide an easy way for TiddlyWikis to communicate with Freebase, an online contextual encyclopedia, and in general with other non-TiddlyWiki storage [...]

Future recruiter – how we will come to buy business

Simon McManus has made an excellent point in his recent blog post about Facebook, which is to do with the way companies will come to assemble teams and buy services in the future. “…My mind runs away with ideas of allowing customers to pick a team based on public profile pages with reviews from previous [...]

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