Representing all knowledge as a set of continuous streams has been in my mind for few years now. In some of my public talks, I illustrated how information graphs and information streams might merge, how each single entity and each relationship could be represented as an individual stream, and how …
I’ve been working on Graph Store-related technologies for 5-6years now. I got fascinated by the idea of representing the world’s information as an interconnected network (check out my semantics-related posts and some of my publications). Back when I was in Microsoft Research I built Zentity, a graph store + programming …
A recent question at the REST in Practice discussion group, reminded me of the research work that Jim and I did on the SOAP Service Description Language (SSDL). It was an active time of discussions with the Web Services community. We really disliked WSDL and we really liked REST. We …
It took me few hours, spread over a number of weekends, to figure out the solution to the following problem so I am recording it in case it’s useful to someone else out there. I am using PhoneGap, jQuery Mobile, and the Google Maps control for a mobile app I …
As I suggested a week ago, my weblog was going to change. The majority of the work has now been done. There are still few things that I need to fix or transfer from my old site but most of the content is now in its new place and the …
This is cool. O’Reilly had an ebook promotion for cyber-Monday here in the US. “REST in Practice” did very well. It was the fifth best-selling title :-) Tim O’Reilly published a blog entry about the top selling books. Not bad! :-) If you have read the book and would like …
I feel that I need to express my opinion on the recent Wikileaks-related events. I know that many of my friends or those who follow my thoughts on the Web might not agree with me but I always believe that it’s healthy to have a difference in opinions since it …
/**/ As we announced last week, we are going to be giving away free copies of “REST in Practice” as a way of celebrating its September 24th release. After this post, every entry in the #RESTinPractice tweet stream will be saved for a period of few weeks. Every 3-4 days …
With the release of “REST in Practice” only a couple of weeks away, we asked O’Reilly to let us give few copies away :-) We just love giving things away :-) So, here’s what to expect: Jim and Ian are always busy with traveling around the globe talking about REST, …
/**/ A couple of days ago, O’Reilly sent “REST in Practice” to the (e-)printers*. It was a great milestone for Jim, Ian, and me; the end of a long road. The target date for the book’s release date is September 24th (yes, of this year :-) a sample from …
/**/ My “REST in Practice” co-authors, Jim and Ian, have been doing an amazing job at creating presentation/courseware material for the book. It’s really humble to experience the kind of interest we’ve had so far from academics, even before the book is published, based on the presentation material that we …
/**/ It’s been a loooooong road, I think it might even be more than 2 3 years. Jim and I had talked about writing a book together about the Web, its design principles, its technologies, and its potential role in distributed applications. We love working together so we wanted this …
When Blaise first presented Photosynth at TED few years ago, everyone was amazed. Well, the work that he’s been doing over at Bing Maps is starting to show off and it’s absolutely wonderful. I just watched his recent presentation on “augmented-realy maps”. Blaise and his team continue to innovate big …
/**/ Last February, I linked to a video, which I thought was very powerful, from Konstantinos Pilavios. Here’s another one called “Small Pleasures” (make sure you watch it all the way to the end). Small Pleasures (?????? ?a???) 2008 from MovieTeller on Vimeo. (thanks to Ioannis Kavouras for the link) …
/**/ Our upcoming book (tentative title: “REST in Practice”) has a Facebook page, so go become a fan. We are going to start posting news/updates about the book soon. You’ll also be able to ask questions, monitor our progress, and give us feedback. However, if you are not a Facebook …
The photographs that made it to the final round of the Bing homepage contest are amazing. The winning one is a photo of the Seattle skyline. It’s gorgeous. Justin Kraemer/ Justin Kraemer Photography This photograph of the Seattle skyline won the second Bing homepage-photo contest. It will be featured as …