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Muddy: Playing with the Powerhouse

We’re releasing Muddy in the next couple of weeks (as a web service complete with a range of APIs and also as an appliance you can rack). It’s a service that indexes your content and finds ‘notable’ things and can tell you about those notable things (because the entities we identify are part of linked [...]

Our upcoming conferences and events

Well, it’s a whole new year. ’2009′ – the end of a decade (I wonder if we really will look back and call it the ‘naughties’?). To welcome in the new year, I thought we should kick off with a blog post about the events we’ll be going to in the coming months. On Wednesday [...]

Connecting concepts: joining up the BBC

We had a good session with the BBC last week looking at their work on linked data and creating dynamic semantic richness (that’s a mouthful). The BBC’s remit to link to external sources more often has provoked lots of thinking and doing in the area of dynamic linking. The problem with manual linking is that [...]

Rattle @ Euro Railsconf 2008

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be speaking at Euro Railsconf 2008 in September this year. The details of the talk are here, it’s titled “Adding Semantic Markup to Your Rails Application with DBpedia and ActiveRDF”, a little snappier than the title for my XTech talk Euro Railsconf is in Berlin this year and I’ll [...]

A Tale of Two Titles

Rob spoke at xtech earlier in the month with a title taken straight from the ‘keep-it-snappy school of speaking’. The talk covered some of the ground of Muddy Boots phase 1 and also the current work we’re doing with phase 2. We hope to say a little bit more about Phase II soon. We got [...]

Arduino Wireless Workshop

Rob is going to be attending the Arduino Wireless Workshop at the end of May. If you’re not familiar with the Arduino boards then go and have a look at the intro but basically we’ll be looking at ways to communicate wirelessly with Arduino’s (via bluetooth and xbee). It’s going to be an exciting couple [...]

See you at XTech

It’s conference time again and we’re really pleased to say that Rattle will be presenting at this year’s XTech conference.  XTech is billed as “… the premier European conference for developers, information designers and managers working with web and standards-based technologies. We bring together the worlds of web development, open source, Web 2.0 and open [...]

YUI Redux

So, I mentioned the Geekup special featuring Christian Heilmann of Yahoo and YUI fame. If you didn’t manage to make it then you missed a great hoedown. Richard from Bluesky PR sourced some great Old Bear Beer and was also the resident barman ! Old broadcasting house provided a terrific venue and Christian brought along [...]

Geekup YUI Special

At this months Leeds Geekup we’re relocating to Old Broadcasting House, where we’ll be introducing Christian Heilmann who works for Yahoo! UK as a web architect.  He’ll be talking about the YUI Javascript library and other things Yahoo. Christian is a member of the Web Standards Project’s DOM Scripting Task Force and has written a [...]

Barcamps and iPhones

I attended the Leeds Barcamp last weekend and what a jolly good time I had. If you’re unfamiliar with the Barcamp concept then it’s an ‘Unconference’ arranged by volunteers and people who turn up on the day. There were some great talks and some of the guys(and gals) from Rockstar turned up and brought along [...]

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