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Week #1190

This week we’ve been doing quite a bit of admin and sorting stuff out – the New Year always feels like a good time of year for that kind of thing, plus the imminent arrival of two new members of staff has given us an extra urge to appear a bit more organised and professional.
One [...]

Week #1189

This week we decided to start doing weeknotes, a quick overview of the things we’ve actually done this week [...]

Beyond Derby

The last week or so have seen us doing quite a few proposals, finishing off Channelography and [...]

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 [...]

Playful with Words

We’ve been focused on words in the last few months, nouns mainly. We have two approaches to words: top down and bottom up, Muddy and Wordr. Our top down version is Muddy. Muddy extracts entities (known words) from any document / site and says which of those entities are ‘notable’ [...]

Playing and pitching

This past month has seen us playing with BBC programmes and closed-captions data using Muddy as well as finishing off a couple of projects like this University of Sheffield project.  The BBC programmes work has been particularly interesting. You can glimpse some of the outputs from the @channelography twitter feed.

We’ve also been pitching this month, [...]

Tepid Tea and The Times

We’ve been having tepid tea in the office for a while now.  And not wanting to put this down to ineptitude or fecklessness we observed that it was due in part because of the staged process to tea making, taking you away from the flow and leaving enough time to go back to your desk and [...]

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 [...]

Rattle’s books, naked

Fancy a peek at the Rattle bookshelves? Well, here’s our collection of hardbacks:

See ditching the dust jackets for an explanation of why they’re missing their glossy covers.

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 [...]

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