In our various GeoClue presentations we've been arguing that location comes in many flavors, of which GPS is only one. In many cases cell tower position or even WiFi connection can provide quite "good enough" location. On Mozilla Hacks they write about an OpenStreetMap-based browser location demo. I'd say the results are quite convincing: This is just a gentle reminder...
Quite a good blog post from the security expert: The old timesharing model arose because computers were expensive and hard to maintain. Modern computers and networks are drastically cheaper, but they're still hard to maintain. As networks have become faster, it is again easier to have someone else do the hard work. Computing has become more of a utility; users...
Some very interesting developments in desktop wiki land: Tomboy, the popular note-taking application for GNOME and OS X now supports web synchronization. The developers of Tomboy have launched Snowy, a web service that allows you to synchronize and access your notes online. As the API is documented, I decided to add support for it in Midgard too. This way the...
This week is the Interactive Knowledge project general assembly and requirements gathering workshop in Salzburg, Austria. My notes from the meeting days can be found on Qaiku: Day 1: general situation, tasks and requirements Day 2: tools, persistent storage, meeting the community As things are happening, it is also possible to follow progress on the #iks-project Qaiku channel or the...
Need I say more?
...indeed I do. Next Monday is the Universal Towel Day. Therefore:
How about Babylon 5?
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Linked Data is the W3C effort to move data out of silos and into the interconnected web. As search engines are becoming more semantically savvy, the next big thing will be establishing connections between different pieces of data by linking. Sir Berners-Lee has an excellent TED talk introducing the concept. In the talk he also shows how easy it is...
Some friends of mine founded the Fat Catherine Sisterhood, an all-female Medieval cannon association. On Monday I got to go to the artillery range with them. Here are some pictures: You can also see a shot on YouTube. While being a light 15th Century field cannon, the Fat Catherine is with the modern times: it microblogs actively on the Qaiku...
I've got no information on the validity of the claimed Harmattan screenshots that are floating around, but anyway wanted to comment on a part of it: Having your today's meetings on a map would be really cool. This is something I've wanted to do with OpenPSA ever since the days I spent motorcycling around office districts of Helsinki giving Midgard...
This February I wrote how search engines play an important role in emergence of Semantic Web, and now it is becoming a reality: Google introduced a feature called Rich Snippets which provides users with a convenient summary of a search result at a glance. They have been experimenting with microformats and RDFa, and are officially introducing the feature and allowing...
Ten years is a long time. Exactly ten years ago we were sitting in a cramped office room in Espoo with Jukka Zitting, frantically trying to put a release together. We had been building a web platform for our living history group, and it had become useful for others too. We both were Linux users, and back then the concept...