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Machine tags for Twitter

5 days ago by Peter Asquith — Comments [1]

With the advent of applications such as Brightkite and Twitter bots, people are starting to Tweet what are, essentially, machine data via Twitter. It occurs to me that a prefix of “#m” for example before the data would allow Twitter clients to ignore the information or re-purpose it into a more meaningful message, in much the same way that Flickr hides machine tags.

What do you think?

Webstock workshops in Auckland (and elsewhere)

25 days ago by Peter Asquith — Comments

Calling all Auckland web types! The wonderful folks at Webstock are organising a nationwide series of workshops and mini-Webstocks in the coming months starting in Auckland on May 5 and 6 with Andy Budd and Tantek Çelik, then Garr Reynolds of Presentation Zen fame in late June.

Andy is a published interaction designer and web standards developer at the Elf Cartel or Clearleft in Brighton, England.

Tantek could be described as the Godfather of microformats and was instrumental in the success of Technorati.

There are plenty of places still available for the Auckland workshops – don’t be shy!

Barcamp Auckland 2

33 days ago by Peter Asquith — Comments

Ludwig and his team at Botany Downs Secondary College come through again. Sign up now for Barcamp Auckland 2 immediately!

Result!

33 days ago by Peter Asquith — Comments

Liverpool through to the Champions’ League semi-finals. Excellent!

Wouldn't it be cool if...

42 days ago by Peter Asquith — Comments [3]

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could search video or still images by sketching a rough shape from a scene and having a search engine identify all frames that contain that geometry?

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