January 2007 Archives
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WeRockNYC is close to a full launch. Currently, you can browse show listings, and subscribe to the listing RSS. The options for browsing and subscribing are limited, but improvements will be rolled out in the coming days. I'm very excited to see this finally happen, as wrnyc (as Xin and I have grown to call it) has been long in the works.
I've been getting a ridiculous amount of blog-spam lately. And if you know me, you know that I loathe spam with the utmost contempt. So rather than fume, I've decided to do something constructive about this terrible plague. Please bear with me in the coming weeks as I tweak, hack, and fiddle with this blog. If you post a comment or trackback, and it doesn't show up, shoot me an email and I'll rectify the mistake.
Flickr has just added support for machine tags.
What are 'machine tags' (also known as 'triple tags'), you might ask? Think tagging with metadata - extra information that rides along with the main tag descriptor content eg. geo:long=123.456.
Why is this cool, you might ask? There are a number of generic tagging issues that machine tags tackle. Traditional tags can lost value taken out of context - which may seem silly, but computers aren't nearly as good at analyzing images as us humans (aside from some fancy image recognition software, but even still... we've got a long way to go...). Machine tags provide machines for more detail, and the context of said detail. Also, Machine tagging is best used in automation, or recursion. Think spime, geo-caching, etc.
The flickr people are super stoked about this development, and rightly so. With all the walled gardens sprouting up, it's nice to see some love for us developers.
It looks like Apple is locking down the iPhone pretty tight. The phone will be locked to the Cingular network (soon to be AT&T?) and really protecting this. Also bad news: no full 3rd party application development for the iPhone will be supported. This makes no sense to me. Apple is putting out an amazing platform here, and developer access would only make it more amazing. Killer app = making calls... my ass. Looks like I'll be either looking into open Linux phones, or hacking the iPhone to pieces. When will the wireless world learn?
