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Graham Perrin

Instapaper: A $5 App That Justifies Your iPhone Purchase | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

  • Instapaper
  • one of two* killer apps for the iPhone
  • Instapaper started out as a simple web service
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  • “Read Later” bookmarklet
  • automatically reformatted (all excess HTML and graphics are stripped out)
  • highly-readable text
  • view all those saved articles in an iPhone-friendly format
  • On my commute, in the evening, during the odd moments of downtime
  • super-convenient mini-reading tablet
  • reading long-form articles
  • catching up on the news
  • downloads articles in the background
  • Instapaper Pro
  • handles the “graphical version” (with photo) of articles better
  • archive articles that you’ve read more easily
  • reversed mode
  • light text on a dark background
  • tilt-scrolling
  • for anyone who commutes by public transit
  • lock out rotation
  • read in bed
Graham Perrin

Instapaper: FAQ - 0 views

  • easy reading of long text
  • popular blogs are now full of useless “list posts” with no substance or value
  • Select some text on the page before clicking the bookmarklet, and your selection will automatically be added as the item’s description.
Graham Perrin

» Gadgets: Best iPhone app ever? Book has one answer Endless Years: Photograp... - 0 views

  • Instapaper (free or $4.99 premium version)
  • simple, free service to store Web pages for future reading
  • Instapaper’s iPhone app fetches those articles from your online account
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  • strips out all the graphics, ads, and gobbledygook
  • plain text
Graham Perrin

Bookmarking services that are complementary to Diigo - 99 views

Diigo complement suggestion
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Fytch Quick Tour. The Big Picture. - 2 views

shared by Graham Perrin on 11 Sep 09 - Cached
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FYTCH: Read, write and share your comments, reviews, opinions and ideas while visiting ... - 0 views

shared by Graham Perrin on 11 Sep 09 - Cached
  • write and read comments at any web site
  • real-time
    • Graham Perrin
       
      'My Radar' appears at the end (screen 5 of 5) of the Fytch Quick Tour.
Graham Perrin

Introducing Balloons: Free multimedia overlays for bloggers | Zemanta Ltd. - 0 views

  • Balloons: Free multimedia overlays for bloggers
  • July 30th, 2009
  • Today we’re introducing “Balloons“,
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  • dynamic overlays that allow any blogger or online publisher to integrate multimedia content into their pages.
  • use Zemanta as usual
  • insert links
  • After your post goes public,
  • additional icon
  • allow your readers to access the information
  • without having to leave
  • content from from the Creative Commons-licensed Freebase database
  • includes information from sources such as YouTube, Wikipedia, Google Maps, and MusicBrainz
  • millions of articles from Freebase contributors.
  • Balloon links will appear only when we can show a smart overlay
  • It’s about standards and open web The underlying code for Balloons is open source and built on the Common Tag architecture
  • open tagging format
  • developed by Zemanta, Yahoo, AdaptiveBlue, Freebase, and others.
  • make content more connected, discoverable, and engaging.
  • every aspect of Balloons – from its open source code base to its use of Freebase’s openly licensed content – has been designed to ensure the easy, free, and open spread of information across the web.
Graham Perrin

Zemanta Documentation - 0 views

  • Zemanta API
  • automatically query Zemanta engine for contextual information about the text that user enters
  • Structure of API call The end point of the API call is: http://api.zemanta.com/services/rest/0.0/
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  • use HTTP POST
  • API methods Supported methods: zemanta.suggest zemanta.suggest_markup zemanta.preferences
  • SDK On top of our API, you can also use our Javascripts
  • full WYSIWYG interface of our recommendations.
    • Graham Perrin
       
      Is this what's used for the bookmarklet of Faviki?
  • In-depth information is available in: Zemanta API companion PDF version
Graham Perrin

Zemanta API companion - 0 views

  • Zemanta API companion
  • Zemanta service Everything you need to know about Zemanta API beside the specification
  • by Andraž Tori
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  • 07/14/08
    • Graham Perrin
       
      July 2008
  • Illustration 1: Authoring process with Zemanta
  • Illustration 2: Four basic types of Zemanta suggestions shown in blog writing application
  • Illustration 3: Roles in "classical" Zemanta ecosystem
Graham Perrin

SemanticWeb - Putting Wikipedia to Work for the Semantic Web - 0 views

  • services such as del.i.cious, Twitter, and Facebook
    • Graham Perrin
       
      … and Diigo (I hope)
  • Semantic tags are in, free text tags are out.
  • August 4, 2009
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  • Semantic tags will be a core building block of the next-generation web
  • leveraging the popular Wikipedia as a vast source of a universal controlled vocabulary
  • Wikipedia can serve as a great controlled vocabulary for tags
  • Every concept is unique, has a unique URI,
  • well-defined.
  • DBpedia did a very good job of extracting the structure or semi-structure
  • and expressing it in RDF
  • or a machine readable way.
  • Faviki helps users remove the ambiguity otherwise surrounding free text tags’ meaning.
  • You can use some concrete concepts as tags
  • yourself as the author as a tag
  • specific organizations or companies or people or specific ideas as tags
  • DBpedia’s linking between the various language versions of Wikipedia
  • users tag in 14 different languages
  • English as the universal reference
  • Common Tag
  • last month, Faviki added the ability for users to use their own keywords or tags in a freeform way
  • and map them to semantic tags
  • connecting tagging with searching to accomplish this.
  • the new release lets users create new tags outside of Wikipedia, using Google returns from the whole world of web pages
  • users collaborate on which URLs are the best candidates for new concepts.
    • Graham Perrin
       
      Smart.
  • URL tags are not so clear as dbpedia
  • a bit more messy
  • a bit more dynamic,
  • but the idea was to make it semi-automatic. People make them and disambiguate them while adding tags
  • some kind of compromise.
  • Next steps for Faviki are around connecting with other services such as del.i.cious, Twitter, and Facebook, to make it easier for users to try it out.
  • Some longer-term plans would be to publish data from Faviki in linked data, to connect to the rest of inked data,
  • making that data queryable to developers via SPARQL.
  • by opening the data, because that’s the idea of the semantic web, to make the data open and connect easily to various sources
  • as much a platform as an application
  • mappings between free tags’ association and some uniquely identified concepts will be very important
    • Graham Perrin
       
      I agree.
  • that kind of data will be interesting to developers.
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    Recommended reading for anyone interested in tagging, semantic tagging or the semantic web.
Graham Perrin

New release: Faviki makes semantic tagging (almost) as easy as classic « Favi... - 0 views

  • Faviki makes semantic tagging (almost) as easy as classic
  • July 2, 2009
  • custom names for tags
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  • better control over tagging
  • OpenID
  • Save API
  • defining new tags
  • several new features
  • mainly to facilitate the use of common tags
  • overcome Wikipedia’s limitations as a controlled vocabulary for semantic tags
  • common, “semantic” tags are unique, well-defined concepts
  • Is it possible to make semantic tags as flexible as classic ones? Can humans accept and love the format intended for machines?
  • Enhanced tagging interface
  • added in free form, resembling classic tagging
  • possible to use custom names for tags
  • If Faviki doesn’t understand a tag provided by a user, it will ask her to disambiguate it. It will then remember her choice
  • Faviki “learns” about user’s name of the tag
    • Graham Perrin
       
      Superb.
  • custom names for tags can also be modified explicitly on the Tag page.
  • Defining new tags
  • added the same way as Wikipedia tags. The difference is that, this time, Google search is not restricted to Wikipedia’s domain
  • only a few of the top results are allowed to be selected
  • users collaboratively create new tags
  • Users collaboratively decide the best URLs for a concept
    • Graham Perrin
       
      Title, URL, a little text and a thumbnail, with sources. Compare the two. Answer yes or no. Perfect!
  • Save/Edit API
  • a simple API that provides a way to save and edit bookmarks from other applications.
    • Graham Perrin
       
      Hurrah! I'd love to have this work with Diigo API for bookmarks…
  • OpenID support
  • uses RPX
  • Other features/improvements
  • Smarter autocomplete list
  • Converting tags
  • Spam control
  • Export/backup bookmarks
  • Tag description tooltip
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    @ Diigo Let's make best use of the Faviki Save/Edit API.
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    The bookmarklet for Faviki is compelling.
Graham Perrin

Bookmarklet for Zemanta - 1 views

  • Zemanta Bookmarklet
  • on Safari, Chrome and other browsers
  • pages that are supported by Zemanta: Google Mail Compose Yahoo Mail Compose Authoring pages of Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad, MovableType and other blogging platforms that are supported by our browser extensions.
Graham Perrin

API - Faviki Wiki - 0 views

  • Tags are separated by ';'.
  • For multi-word tags, both '%20' and '_' can be used instead of space.
  • Parameters The values you’ll be sending to Faviki.
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  • tags, semicolon separated
  • tags tag1;tag2;tag3...
Graham Perrin

Faviki - Social bookmarking tool using smart semantic Wikipedia (DBpedia) tags - 0 views

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    Left to right: * triangular switch to close (hide detail) or open   — green switch for other user's bookmarks   — amber switch for your own bookmarks * favicon of the bookmarked item * username of the most recent networker * title of the bookmarked item   — font size a little greater than the norm * date or time of networking   — font size a little less than the norm + save + spam?   — these options appear when you curse over the date/time. When the bookmark is open, detail comprises: * highlight from the page * personal note * tags   — Common Tag   — as you curse over each one, its definition * popularity   — the number of people who have networked the bookmarked item + overview   — this option appears subtly when you curse over the number. Example Faviki overviews http://www.faviki.com/webpage/wave.google.com_28277 and http://www.faviki.com/webpage/esw.w3.org_12350 suggest that early adopters of Faviki may not make greatest use of highlights and notes, but that's a separate topic …
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    Log in to Faviki to see recent bookmarks from all users at http://www.faviki.com/ The UI is nice.
Graham Perrin

Adobe, AIR and open source: changes to, and expectations of, WebKit - 1 views

  • Adobe Open Source
  • WebKit
  • to render HTML and execute JavaScript in Adobe® AIR™
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  • Our plan is to contribute our changes back to the WebKit community
  • currently working on getting the code smoothly integrated
  • conversation at http://webkit.org/contact.html
  • Our modification can be found within the Perforce depot.
  • integrate our changes back into the WebKit source repository at webkit.org
  • the WebKit shared library will not contain any platform specific code
  • For the near term, WebKit will have platform specific code
  • to rasterize vector graphics generated by the HTML renderer
  • Project Plans
  • we use Cairo Source for WebKit
  • we use CoreGraphics
  • 2008-06-03
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    Adobe, AIR and open source: changes to, and expectations of, WebKit
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    Will AIR applications be deployable in Google Chrome OS? Or, is this possibility reduced by Adobe's changes to WebKit? When and how will Adobe's changes to WebKit become available at webkit.org? Defocusing from Adobe: is there now less platform-specific code within WebKit? How soon might the goal — no platform-specific code — be realised?
Graham Perrin

ODF versus OOXML: Don't forget about HTML! - O'Reilly XML Blog - 0 views

  • Don't forget about HTML
  • February 25, 2007
  • HTML’s potential and actual suitability for much document interchange
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  • HTML is the format to consider first
  • validated, standards compliant XHTML in particular
  • HTML at one end (simple WP documents)
  • PDF at the other end (full page fidility but read-only)
  • W3C versus ISO
  • HTML, ODF, OOXML, PDF
  • Lie adopts an extreme view towards overlap of standards:
  • overlap at all brings nothing but misery and bloat.
  • The next dodgy detail is to make blanket comparisons between HTML and ODF/OOXML.
  • ODF and OOXML deal with many issues that HTML/CSS simply does not.
  • the W3C argument might be to say that every part should have a URL
  • a strange theory that MS wants ODF and OOXML to both fail
  • being pro-ODF does not mean you have have to be anti-OOXML
  • HTML is the format of choice for interchange of simple documents
  • ODF will evolve to be the format of choice for more complicated documents
  • OOXML is the format of choice for full-fidelity dumps from MS Office
  • PDF is the format of choice for non-editable page-faithful documents
  • all have overlap
  • we need to to encourage a rich library of standard technologies,
  • widely deployed,
  • free,
  • unencumbered,
  • explicit,
  • awareness of when each is appropriate
  • an adequate set of profiles and profile validators
  • using ISO Schematron
  • Plurality
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Carrot2 - open source search results clustering engine - 0 views

  • automatically organize small collections of documents
  • thematic categories
  • ready-to-use components for fetching search results
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  • easily integrates
  • YahooAPI, GoogleAPI, MSN Live API, eTools Meta Search, Lucene, SOLR, Google Desktop and more
  • e.g. search results
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    An open source framework for building search clustering engines. It can automatically organize small collections of documents, e.g. search results, into thematic categories. Carrot2 can add clustering of search results to an existing search engine. Its algorithms should successfully cluster up to about a thousand text documents, a few paragraphs each.
Graham Perrin

Carrot2 Clustering Engine - 0 views

  • organizes your search results into topics
  • an instant overview
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    Superb!
Graham Perrin

StackExchange™-The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform - 1 views

  • Stack Overflow has rapidly become the best place for programmers to get answers to technical questions
  • there's a way to get the same kind of site
  • a knowledge exchange, running the same software as Stack Overflow
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  • applied to just about any subject matter
  • With StackExchange™, you can run a site with all the same features that made Stack Overflow successful
  • an internal knowledge exchange
  • securely
  • Pricing
  •  
    The Stack Overflow Knowledge Exchange Platform
Graham Perrin

Technology Review: Extracting Meaning from Millions of Pages - 0 views

  • University of Washington software pulls facts from 500 million Web pages
  • analyzing basic relationships between words
  • "The significance of TextRunner is that it is scalable because it is unsupervised,"
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  • June 10, 2009
  • "It can discover and learn millions of relations, not just one at a time. With TextRunner, there is no human in the loop: it just finds relations on its own."
  • enter, for example, "kills bacteria,"
  • insights that "chlorine kills bacteria" or "ultraviolet light kills bacteria" or "heat kills bacteria"
  • then visit the Web page
  • ways to preview the text
  • triples
  • prototype
  • the ability of software to achieve rudimentary understanding of text
  • unprecedented scale and scope
  • analogous to technology developed by Powerset
  • a tool that was limited
  • TextRunner technology handles
  • arbitrary text on any page, including blog posts, product catalogues, newspaper articles, and more
  • "this work reflects a growing trend toward the design of search tools that actively combine the pieces of information they find on the Web into a larger synthesis."
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