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Muddy

The gestation of some projects is longer than others. The one we’re ‘launching’ today is elephant-esque in it’s development. Muddy is here.

Muddy is a data mining tool that, for a given web page or document, will tell you what the notable things are from which you can then grab extra information. It’s [...]

The Story to September

The business has now been going for over two years and it’s over two and half years since Rob and I met, initially to work on Folksy and then to do other projects we set up Rattle.  It’s an arbitrary time to take stock but it also seems a good time to do so.
Our early [...]

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 data).
This [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Museum Memories

We’ve recently been working with the Science Museum to help produce the ObjectWiki. It’s described as :
“The Science Museum ‘Object Wiki’ is a website with information about
some of the objects within the Science Museum’s collections. To help
improve the information, we’ve opened up the pages so that anyone can
edit them.”
It’s been quite an interesting project and [...]

Noob Chatter

Here at Rattle, we’re engaging in the early stages of an internal research project into teenagers and shared gaming.  We’ve decided to create a blog to go alongside it.  The idea is to a produce a transparent, open and discursive approach to the research project.  The site will give you some insight into our thoughts, [...]

Muddy

We went Public via backstage with this ages ago. Too busy to say much about it at the time but it’s a neatish prototype done for the beeb which provides external links for a given news story. Lots of stuff about using wikipedia as a CV / disambiguation DB there to be exploited… [...]