Category Archives: data

Distributed Data Stores: the birth of a new layer in the stack

Posted on June 11, 2009 by ben

I learned web programming in 1995, when a SQL database for storing your data was the obvious choice, but the options were still few, expensive, and slow. Since then, the SQL database has become ubiquitous, and the options are many, … Continue reading →

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CC Tech Summit – December 2008

Posted on December 12, 2008 by ben

I just finished my presentation on “RDFa: Life after W3C Recommendation” at the Creative Commons Tech Summit held at MIT (photographic evidence). Fun to chat about RDFa, as always, and a good crowd with some good questions.

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Putting the “End” in EndNote.

Posted on October 6, 2008 by ben

EndNote is a tool used commonly by a number of academics for adding endnote references to their papers. You keep an EndNote library of references, and you can easily add them to your Word document as you type your paper. … Continue reading →

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Bridging the Clickable and Data Webs

Posted on July 14, 2008 by ben

Over the last few years, I’ve been the Creative Commons representative to the World Wide Web Consortium (w3c). This means that I work with a bunch of great folks on web standards, specifically trying to define solutions that will help … Continue reading →

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Why I’m switching to Yahoo Search

Posted on May 21, 2008 by ben

[Disclaimer: Yahoo supports RDFa, which is a specification I've worked on. So, obviously, I'm excited. But hey, that doesn't mean I'm wrong.] Yahoo recently announced SearchMonkey, and for the first time in 10 years, I have a reason to switch … Continue reading →

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