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iSpecies.org

iSpecies.org is a mashup for a specific discipline, which is where it’s at . Not too much to speak of yet, but it’s a good start. How about adding Wikipedia data? Via Tara.

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Tim Bray on XML Languages

Tim’s two recent pieces are just fantastic: On XML Language Design and Don’t Invent XML Languages. I was originally going to take out some points, and comment that I agree with them and why, but Tim makes a lot of … Continue reading

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Windows Search Guide

Windows Search Guide – a (very beta) page is up for adding search engines to the search box in Internet Explorer 7. Note that at the time of this writing the OpenSearch Description files they’re using are in v1.1 draft … Continue reading

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The Story of Feedster: A Word From Feedster’s Co-Founder

Scott Johnson, Feedster’s recently-departed co-founder, lets us know that François, Feedster’s other co-founder has posted on the Feedster blog: The Story of Feedster: A Word From Feedster’s Co-Founder. He hasn’t maintained his own blog in quite a long time, so … Continue reading

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Why is the Google Homepage API not HTML?

Someone please explain to me why the Google Homepage API is a small XML format that includes an HTML bit, instead of just HTML itself? Okay, so they introduce a few bits of meta data. The links, such as screenshot … Continue reading

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Major OpenSearch upgrade

I’ve been hard at work at A9.com, working on the OpenSearch website. Here’s some of what’s new: OpenSearch 1.1 Draft 2 The first draft went up in September – hopefully the second draft will become final within a few weeks. … Continue reading

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canadian political parties converge

NDP talking about tax cuts… Conservatives talking about child care…. so all the parties are going to win over voters from the other parties by being more like them… that’s a good plan, right? since there are three main parties… … Continue reading

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what is “tag”?

some definitions of ‘tag’ tag (noun) A string (text) that is associated with something else (eg a book, web page, even another ‘tags’). The specifics depend on the implemenation, but a ‘tag’ usually may not contain spaces, and often may … Continue reading

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Google Base = Bad

I was thinking of a really long rant, but instead I’ll make a short comment. Google Base leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth, in more ways than one. You?

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Colophon

This is the third iteration of this blog. Versions one and two were titled “Puzzlepieces,” as having a cool blog name seemed like a good idea when I started it. Version one and two also had fancy (well, fancier) designs … Continue reading

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