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Kiva XO Mashup

Kiva is that great organization that allows everybody to make personalized microloans, by selecting who is getting money, getting in touch with them, and getting repaid by them (if things work out). Kiva does a great job of making loans... Read more →

Atom Linking Extensions

just yesterday i was writing about the OAI-ORE data model and how it replicates previous efforts in defining formats for linking resources on the web. today, i ran into draft-snell-atompub-link-extensions (which of course had to be added to my Atom... Read more →

OAI-ORE Data Model

the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) has published a first set of drafts of the OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) specification. while i have not yet looked at the details (it is a lot of stuff to read), it is... Read more →

OpenSocial XML Schemas

when looking at OpenSocial a bit closer, i realized that they publish all their XML schemas in RELAX NG compact syntax. that's nice, it is not the first place where RELAX NG has been chosen (Atom and the now obsolete... Read more →

iPhone To Do List 1.1.3 Update

now i finally got around to update the new static page for the iPhone To Do List with the things that have been changed in the iPhone 1.1.3 Software Update. here is a brief list of the most important changes... Read more →

iPhone To Do List

based on my brand-new understanding of what typepad's pages are good for, i have now turned my iPhone To Do List (previously published in two versions, v1 and v2), into such a page. thus, the iPhone To Do List now... Read more →

Atom Landscape Overview

after publishing two atom landscape overviews as blog posts (v1 and v2), i have now discovered a useful new feature of typepad, which is called pages. these allow you to publish stuff at a configurable URI, and because it is... Read more →

HTML 5 Draft

today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published the first draft of HTML 5: A vocabulary and associated APIs for HTML and XHTML. this probably marks the end of XHTML 2.0 (with the last version being 1.5 years old), which... Read more →

Spamferences

where there is money to be made, people will try to do it. that is basically the lesson to be learned from the numerous spamferences popping up at an increasing rate. when does a conference become a spamference? that's hard... Read more →

25MB of Acrobat

i was always wondering why my PDF files were locked even after i closed acrobat (which always is a good idea, because it's a pretty bad resource hog). after a little bit of experimentation and googling, now i know the... Read more →