I was at Rewired State last weekend and so a week or so ahead, I got around to applying to an XML Gateway account in order to get some interesting data out of there - this blog is mostly about a few technical aspects of using the gateway, but first, I hope you’ll forgive a short rant about the dif...

I wanted to try out the Twitter API and since I was finding myself repeatedly going through the tedium of flipping browser tabs to see what was on Radio 4, I figured I’d make a bot that tweeted what was on Radio 4 instead. This had the added advantage that I could use some half-written code I’d ...

As promised below is part two of my mini-reviews of papers submitted to the W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, including the three late papers, an interesting related paper by google (pdf), and Danbri’s take on Foaf in 2009. The workshop starts tomorrow. Part one of my reviews (paper...

Being newly back in semweb land got me thinking about what all the existing mounds of foaf data could be used for. There’s lot of it out there but not used much as far as I can tell. I tried to make a foaf importer library eons sgo, before there were decent query laguages and before google social ...