I used to, sometimes, go to a conference in Montreal in August called Extreme Markup Languages. Sometimes a bit over-the-top geeky for me, but mostly a good experience. There’s now a new conference in Montreal in August, run by some of the same people and chaired by Tommie Usdin from Mulberry Technologies, called Balisage (the [...]
Tagged balisageConferenceThere are some issues with Web 2.0, mostly in the areas of privacy, security, copyright — all those things you’d rather you didn’t need to worry about. Take privacy for example. On many social networking sites people sign up and then put in all their personal information simply because there’s a field there for it. [...]
The third aspect of Web 2.0, which is often under-appreciated, is the process aspect. This has changed people’s expectations of what software can do, and how it should be delivered. This category includes open source, continual beta and quick release cycles, and some new business models.
Process Cloud
Not all of the things that are important in [...]
Yup, it’s on again. Northern Voice, that is, for 2008. February 22-23, 2008, at the Forestry Sciences Centre at UBC, where we held it last year. It will be the same format (Moose Camp unconference on Friday, conference on Saturday), with some sort of party on the Thursday evening. More details will appear on [...]
The technical component of Web 2.0 includes XML, Ajax, APP, various programming languages, plug-ins and widgets, and the REST architecture. All of these have a role to play in supporting the web sites that incorporate Web 2.0 features, while many predate the Web 2.0 phenomenon. There are far too many interesting technical features for me [...]
Lest anyone think that physicists don’t care about the real world, Bob Park publishes a short weekly newsletter that touches on subjects ranging from scientific hoaxes to inconsistencies in the way the U.S. Administration handles various issues. It mostly concentrates on science and technology, but not only. The Friday, October 26, 2007 newsletter also discusses [...]
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