*Sighs* (off-​​topic)

I was in Venice last week. I’m afraid to say that it looks a bit dif­ferent.

In the middle of the picture above you can just make out the Bridge of Sighs – it’s the thing in the middle that isn’t an advert for a bank.

Below is the Museo Correr end of St

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Trust me, I have an IP address

I spent the day today at the Wealth of Networks II con­fer­ence, the agenda of which was set out as the next-​​​​generation of the Internet.

It was a good event and the organ­isers managed to bring together some top-​​​​rate speakers in a great venue with rock-​​​​solid internet, for once. And it was free – yay

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The Next Next Big Thing

…is Who 2.0. That’s according to an inter­view with Tim O’Reilly, the man who pop­ular­ised Web 2.0. On Basque news site eitb24, he said that he thinks:

…certain kinds of data­bases are going to become really big and really useful. We are just in the early stages, digital identity doesn’t really work yet.

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Vox Populi?

Nice inter­view on Techcrunch about Vox, the new social network/​​blog platform from SixApart. I have to confess that I didn’t really see the point of Vox when it first appeared, given the exist­ence of all the other social networks out there. SixApart’s Andrew Anker explains:

More import­antly to Vox, we believe there is very

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What is Non-​​Linear Search?

I was asked about non-​​​​linear search and said I’d give it a go.

(The question comes from Simon Collister, who I am sure has a few ideas of his own up his sleeve. But since he wrote a fab post about tagging, which in turn fuelled my own effort on the subject, it’s def­in­itely my turn to

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yet another self-​​serving corporate blog

In what may be a PR mas­ter­piece, the new Yahoo! cor­porate blog is nothing but self-​​​​effacing. My headline is theirs for their virgin entry. “Oh, yes, we’re going cor­porate. But please don’t hold that against us. It’s a good thing, really,” they go on to say.

Signs are that this will be an inter­esting read. Major

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