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Month: January 2007

  • AJAXified Timelines

    I was trying to look up some way to present some data to a client when I stumbled upon this AJAX widget by SIMILE project run by a group at MIT. The group works on semantic web technologies and besides Timeline, has tools like Babel, to convert data, and Exhibit, which is a publishing framework.

    Timeline allows you to create simple scrollable timelines using an XML or JSON data source using their javascript and some very simple and highly customisable options. Do check out their websitewhich has some pretty cool stuff using their tools.

  • It Ain’t Over

    Just watched Rocky Balboa. And he quips,

    It ain’t over ’till it’s over.

    Watch the movie if you have loved Rocky. Slightly different. Not the usual Rocky stuff but good nonetheless. The story has been well developed and Rocky gears up for one last fight. To fight off the history and move forward. To accept Adrian’s death. And he does that.

    You, me or nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward, how much can you take and keep moving forward.

    That is so true. One of my new year resolutions was to be happy this year. Well, the last year wasn’t so great for my personal life, even though I have lots to be thankful for. I guess I hadn’t moved on since. But I am truly trying to and I do hope I meet my resolution this year.

  • Corporate Blogging

    I once had a discussion with a friend about the use of corporate blogging. I said it was a good for PR and feedback, he did not agree much. Well, whatever be the use, I am a great fan of the style of Jonathan Schwartz.

    He admits in this post how his admin screwed up and apologises to Matt Mullenweg (the brilliant guy who brings us WordPress). Now I am sure that no PR department wrote or edited it but makes you feel that they listen. Meanwhile you can also watch his interesting interview with Scoble.

  • Little Boxes

    That’s me in the corner!!

    Me

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  • Babel: Don’t just listen

    Just yesterday a colleague at work asked me to explain the significance of the movie title Babel. She had not liked the movie, me immensely. Anyways, that is not the point here.

    I was checking out the Cisco official blog, a pretty nice one they have going there, and I came across these lines.

    Cisco – We’ve been following our iPhone trademark issue in the blogosphere closely and it’s been interesting to see the commentary from some posters suggesting that somehow Cisco either in the US or Europe didn’t meet the requirements to maintain the iPhone trademark.

    Jonathan – You might be listening, but you’re not understanding. (Babel)

    Brought a nice little smile to my face. Also shows how seriously big companies take the blogosphere in todays world.