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I attended the XTech conference at the beginning of May, and have just blogged my thoughts and notes on my own blog, so rather than reproduce those meanderings here, I will make like with the traditional web, and link to the posts. You can read these at: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 A cracking conference, very engaging and stimulating, and from reading the posts on here about the Eduserv Symposium, it appears many themes cropped up in both conferences. I look forward to keeping an eye on this landscap

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Ok this entry is gonna be a quick one as basically I was watching the show without giving full concentration since I had a guest at home. Show kicked off with the results from last week’s group being announced and to see who was eliminated. I had mixed reactions when it was announced that Virus Cinta was the unlucky one being kicked out. Personally I felt it was a complete injustice as they were one of the better performers last week whereas Cucu Datuk Merah and Fatskunks were signing their

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Day 3 This morning’s hangover was brought to you by Smithwicks. A short day today, with the conference finishing at around 1pm. Before the end, though, a couple of talks to go to before the final keynote. Firstly, was a session on ‘Data portability with SIOC and FOAF‘ from Uldis Bojãrs of DERI, Galway. This talk described the need and requirements for data portability, and continued with a demonstration of SIOC applications which allow SIOC and FOAF data to be produced from existing online co

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My XTech 2008 paper’s now up on the conference website. If you liked the look of my slides, this goes into quite a bit more detail about what Golem is, and about some of the work we’ve done on extracting relationships from large volumes of crystallography data. (If that sounds deathly dull to you, though, my apologies!)

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In this workshop we show you how to create CouchDB applications that take advantage of its rich feature set. We are going through the programming interface, application architecture and best practices. You will be able to take what you learn here and appl

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Day 2 After learning the lesson from yesterday’s ‘worst Full Irish Breakfast I’ve ever had in Ireland’, I headed off to the conference via Starbucks - this time my route problems of the previous day were banished, and I actually arrived early. Not early enough for the 8am sponsor presentation, though, so I hope somebody made it in for that. The first two presentations of the day were by Stephen Dunn and colleagues of the Guardian, and Brendan Quinn from the BBC. Both presentations concentrated

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I’m glad to announce that we have launched “Arvin Kocharian productions” website. You can check it out here http://www.arvinkocharian.am Any comments and suggestions are welcome.        Best Wishes, X-Tech Creative Studio http://www.x-techs.org

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Intro This is a brief write up of Day 1 of the 2008 XTech conference held in Dublin, Ireland from 6-9 May 2008. Days 2 and 3 to follow. The proceedings and presentations from the conference are available for further reading. The theme for this year’s conference was “The Web on the Move”. Not being able to put the intro any better, this is the intro from the parent website and the conference programme: “For years we have been developing and promoting open data standards, enabling data portabil

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From Xtech in Dublin 18 May, 2008 | Written by The Smart Guy | under Stuff No Comments Backstage is in Dublin this week for the Xtech 2008 conference. As usual I’ll be filming as much as possible from the conference including talks and interviews from people. Just keep an eye on http://cubicgarden.blip.tv for videos everyday.

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Linux shop adds Solaris for performance boost Wow - "[...] it turned out that Solaris 10 had a throughput that was 50 times better." (tags: fedora linux solaris solaris10 sun t1000 t2000 ubuntu) Open Source at Sun Microsystems, 2008 Gartner Analysis. Synopsis: Open source at Sun Microsystems is strong, and Gartner expects an increasing role for open source within its business strategies in coming years. (tags: analysis gartner opensource sun) BigAdmin Feature Article: Using Kerberos to Aut

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Test Match Special via Twitter 16th May 2008, 07:40 pm by Matt Rhodes I promise this is my last Twitter post for a while (well maybe!) Today was the second day of the first Test between England and New Zealand. And I was able to follow the entire match on Twitter. I remember summers where people illicitly listened to cricket on the radio in the office or where the network stalled as everybody tried to watch it on demand. But now there’s no need. If you follow Test Match Special on Twitter, th

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The Web on the move: XTech 2008 Stephen Dunn / Technology 11:06am Phil Wills speaking at Xtech, 2008. Photo by Gavin Bell on Flickr. Some rights reserved. This week, some of us from the Technology team are attending the XTech 2008 conference in Dublin, giving a presentation on the technology and ideas behind the redesign and rebuild of guardian.co.uk. The theme for the conference is 'The web on the move'. Our presentation showed how our new information architecture fits together, how

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May 16th, 2008 The documentation has an example of setting up an “External Tool” to run Ant. The example is simple enough to illustrate its point, but there’s more that can be done, especially if you write the Ant build file knowing that it will be run from . This example is from the “project” that I used for organising the exercises for my “Testing XSLT” tutorial at XTech 2008

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Presentation from XTech and details of the XML, YAML and JSON (and RDF) schedule APIs.

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Presentation from XTech 2008 in Dublin, about the BBC's plans to reinvigorate its technical platform and to create new user management services. Slides 38 and 39 are my favourites :-)

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From: 7:09pm (15 May 2008) Its been a happy week for me.. =)) *9 May 2008* After school, went ahead to meet Zee... Attended the FRESH! 2008 (dance party for freshies) featuring Caracal, Barracuda Batucadas, DJ Jeremy Boon(from Zouk)... Presented by Ngee Ann Poly's Radio Heatwave.. Appearance by Power98FM people... Overall it was okay... We missed Barracuda Batucadas(Damn, I know they're good)... Gotten bored by the lucky draw... Waited for Caracal... The were great like their usual self but

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Last week, it was my pleasure to give the first keynote at XTech 2008 in Dublin. Giving the opening talk at any conference is always a delight because you can then relax and enjoy the rest of the sessions. The conference was exceptional and I thought I'd take this opportunity to thank Edd Dumbill and Expectnation for organising this excellent event. I thoroughly enjoyed it. There were so many fabulous sessions that it seems unfair to highlight any in particular. However, I'll mention just a few

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alf's slides from xtech -- wish i could've been there

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Vidlink is a new app by Google, which lets you record movies and upload them to YouTube using the Mac’s built-in camera or many Firewire or USB video cameras. It supports importing videos from other programms too. (Via Official Google Mac Blog) Apple has three new Get a Mac ads: Group, Pep Rally and Sad Song. There is a new iPhone interface for Google Reader at http://www.google.com/reader/i/. (Via Official Google Reader Blog) Google Maps have now two more options, which can show geo-

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Tom Scott has already written a round-up of this year's XTech. But if you are hungry for more, over on BBC Radio Labs he's gone into detail about his particular presentation "Helping machines play with programmes". This is part of the ongoing work on the BBC's /programmes pages. Here's an introduction from Sophie Walpole from last year. Here's Tom's presentation:      | View | Upload your own Below is Brendan Quinn and Ben Smith's XTech presntation on BBC Tech Refresh and Identity ("Here'

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At XTech this year, I was lucky enough to be one of the organisers for the 20:20 Lightning Talks Session on Thursday evening. I wanted to say a big thanks to all who took part, your friendly gong-wielding hosts Mike Smith & Rob Lee included and the XTech crowd for providing us with 12 fantastic speakers which we managed to squeeze into 90 minutes. For those not familiar with the 20:20 lightning talk format, speakers present a fast-paced 20 slides, with 20 seconds per slide (with the excep

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Here are the slides from my recent presentation at XTech on our work on the BBC Programmes Ontology. I’ve also written a post over at the BBC’s Radio Lab blog about the machine readable serializations to represent the concepts described within the ontology. We have been following the Linked Data approach - namely thinking of URIs as more than just locations for documents. Instead using them to identify anything, from a particular person to a particular programme. These resources in-turn ha

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Simon Willison, 6th May 2008 :: Links and resources from a three hour tutorial presented at XTech 2008.

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Apologies if I did not make any reviews on the very first episode as I felt it wasn’t worth doing one, especially since the results to trim the Top 20 down to 12 had already been tabulated by the judges and the watching audience had no say whatsoever. Last week’s episode was more of an introduction to all the groups with short clips on their qualifying performances. From those few seconds worth of viewing, I must say that the quality is of some standard and that we should be proud that some

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"It's like school, but more fun," says Donny. "You learn about what people really do in the world." Catering to youth from underserved communities, XTech keeps its middle and high school students on track and thinking about the future. This program is designed to help inspire some of these students to become part of the next generation of scientists, engineers, and others who work to shape the world we live in.

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Going Solo is a one-day educational conference for freelancers and small business owners of the internet industry and beyond, organised by Stephanie Booth and taking place in Lausanne, Switzerland. Being a freelancer probably a whole different world. I know people who are successful at their own business and people who are just thinking of going solo but afraid to dive into this [probably] uncertain world. Not done that myself, either. Conference such as “Going Solo” (which is on this Fri

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I’ve just posted a piece on my thoughts about the first couple of days at last weeks XTech over at the BBC’s Internet blog. As David Recordon of Six Apart noted in Wednesday morning’s plenary, open software and hardware have become hip and have given small groups of developers the chance to build interesting web apps - and, more importantly, the chance to get them adopted. This is a new wave of web companies which expose their data via APIs and consume others’ APIs. And what is interesting

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Closing keynote. Sean McGrath

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Closing keynote. Sean McGrath

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20:20 Lightning talks: Microsoft Popfly

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The attention economy is just around the corner. Ian Forrester
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Searching, publishing and remixing a web of semantic data. Giovanni Tummarello

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Next generation data storage with CouchDB. Jan Lehnardt

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Apache pizza, Dublin
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