December 20, 2006 – 1:36 pm
Google kills their Search API. So what?
I have learned the news through David Megginson’s Quoderat under the title Beginning of the end for open web data APIs? but I don’t agree with his analysis even if it is shared by all the other posts I have read on the subject.
David writes: The replacement, Google AJAX [...]
December 6, 2006 – 11:29 pm
Here is the talk I had prepared for the Web 2.0 panel a the XML 2006 conference. This has been a very interactive panel and even though I haven’t pronounce exactly the same sentences, the message is the same.
I had proposed a whole session titled “Why XML Experts Should Care About Web 2.0”. I have [...]
December 4, 2006 – 12:52 am
I have arrived in Boston yesterday evening to participate to the XML 2006 conference.
Today, I spent most of my time walking in the town and I couldn’t resist to enter in the first bookshop I found to check if they had our new Web 2.0 book.
This bookshop happened to be Borders, 10 School Street and [...]
December 1, 2006 – 12:58 pm
I’have received my personal copies of our Web 2.0 book and they look really good.
I really like the kind foreword from Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr, especially when she says this book is very much about how, through technology, you can capture and delight your users. This should be the tagline of our book!
She goes [...]
November 30, 2006 – 3:55 pm
Written in 1999, this article is not prime news but it’s still a must read for anyone interested in XML: in this short buzzword free piece, XML’s father, Jon Bosak, describes the birth of his baby.
November 28, 2006 – 12:22 pm
Après en avoir discuté avec l’équipe de rédaction, j’ai envoyé sur la liste xml-tech un long message intitulé Qu’attendez-vous de XMLfr?.
J’y décrit brièvement l’évolution du site depuis sa création début 2000 et mes projets pour redonner un peu plus de dynamisme au site.
N’hésitez pas à prendre part au débat et à me dire, que ce [...]
November 24, 2006 – 5:57 pm
I gave my Web 2.0 tutorial for ATHENS 2006 yesterday afternoon and it was the first time I had the opportunity to teach to “real” students.
A few of them were really sleepy but the organizers had kindly warned me that their Parisian nights were pretty busy and that it was to be expected…
Most of the [...]
November 24, 2006 – 4:43 pm
We’ve sent the final editions of our chapters of XML Power to our editor and the book should be available fairly soon. But, did we need yet another book on XML?
XML Power should be different…
XML Power is the first book written by the XML Guild.
We have thought we needed a common project to work together [...]
November 22, 2006 – 8:17 am
Our book is now shipping on Amazon.com!
It should be available in Europe within a couple of weeks and I am eagerly waiting to see my first copy…
November 21, 2006 – 9:34 pm
Ifra has published a new special edition of their magazine, newspaper techniques, dedicated to Web 2.0. Ifra present themselves as the world’s leading association for newspaper and media publishing and this special edition shows the level of interest from the newspaper industry for these new technologies.
I had the pleasure to contribute to this edition a [...]