Zach Beauvais

A Good Week for RDFa

Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities With the unveiling of Google's RDFa support and discussions from the UK's Central Office of Information around using RDFa in their job sites, there has certainly been a lot of coverage of RDFa...

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Getting Connected

Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities Web 2.0, social networking, cloud computing, SaaS, PaaS, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web, Smart Phones, 3G, wifi, convergence…. the list of buzzwords or memes  goes on—meme being the buzzword for...

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Smart stuff

Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities I was listening to the Today Programme on Radio 4 the other morning, and heard that the vast majority of computers in the world are not part of PC's. Most processors are thinking away in...

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FOWA

Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities I've been out of the Talis office for nearly two weeks—the last of which was on holiday without internet connection of any description. The week before that, however, I spent at FOWA (Future Of...

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Empathic Web

Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities Last week I listened to a talk by Shane Hipps, a Porsche "consumer anthropologist" turned Mennonite minister. The speaker, clearly aware of the contradictory nature of his background, made a...

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Perspective Applications

Originally appeared on Nodalities Blog: http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities Looking at the world through a closed metaphor, like a walled garden, actually stops you from expanding the scope of possibilities available to the software you develop. This is because...

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Walled gardens: mapping the parties

Originally appeared on the Nodalities blog – which has since been consigned to the wayback machine. 29th April 2008, 11:34 am by Zach Beauvais In: Uncategorized The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing on kind of thing in terms of another. -Lakoff and...

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