Exhibit and Semantic MediaWiki: A newly married couple – Part I

Exhibit and Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) definetly make a good couple, since they complement each other quite well. While Exhibit is really good at visualizing structured data, SMWs naturally contain lots of this data. Hence, the interaction of Exhibit and SMW covers the entire value chain from creating to presenting structured content.
In an upcoming series of [...]

list.it on Lifehacker

Lifehacker featured listit on its front page today.  Thanks, Lifehacker! The list.it team have been avid lifehacker readers for a very long time! (We also now have 1700+ registered users!)
Speaking of the list.it team, we wanted to acknowledge the rest of the team for their hard work over the past four months; in [...]

Getting Acquainted with Access, FileMaker et al.

First of all, what’s a good name for these kinds of applications? I am talking about MS Access, FileMaker, 4th Dimension, Kexi and so on. They are not exactly databases (they can be, but they’re more than that), they are not exactly IDEs (they sort of are, but that term is not specific enough), and [...]

Does JavaScript have a Future on the Server-Side?

If you listen to Steve Yegge (and he is a smart guy to listen to), then sooner or later we’re all going to end up learning JavaScript. As far as back-end web developers are concerned, this possibility has recently become a little bit more real, with the release of server-side JavaScript hosting frameworks. Both Aptana’s [...]

list.it Beta Released; Information Scraps on MIT TechNews

Note to self: study more notes.
Over the past two years our group has built up a body of research about information scraps — those little bits of personal information you e-mail to yourself, jot down in post-it notes and notebooks, or keep in that miscellaneous.txt file.  It’s been a wild journey, with a myriad of [...]