If you had a map and you could show it to anyone, what would you put on it? These days, maps are playing a big part in the development of social media. Imagine you were to run an event, or make a journey around the world, how could you represent it online? How could you […]
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Location-Based Publishing and Services
April 22, 2008 – 3:29 pm
I have recently had a technical article about Location-Based Publishing and Services published at Dev.Opera. It’s all about the rising use of geographical coordinates in association with media on the Web, and how to get involved. For the benefit of the Dharmafly archives, I’ve copied the article below.
YLiveGroups: Live Video at BarcampBrighton2
March 15, 2008 – 1:09 pm
This weekend is BarcampBrighton2, a grassroots technology conference organised and run by the participants. Over the last couple of days, we’ve been piecing together a special Greasemonkey userscript for the conference, which enables Yahoo Live users to broadcast live video as a group. We call it YLiveGroups. » Install the script We first used Yahoo […]
SemanticCampLondon
February 19, 2008 – 1:45 pm
This weekend was SemanticCampLondon (alt) – a grassroots conference of semantic web developers. Semantics is all about meaning – and the idea of the “semantic web” is to use techniques that add greater and greater meaning to web content. The intention is for computers – as well as humans – to “understand” something of the […]