2009
Sμblog | James Tizard
(via)Sμblog (pronounced sub-log) is is my attempt to combine ideas about microblogging, messaging and the sematic web into a practical tool ready for everyday work.
XMPP to RDF microblogging tool, quite nice and well documented.
2008
the-cassandra-project - Google Code
by 1 other (via)Cassandra is a distributed storage system for managing structured data while providing reliability at a massive scale.
seems to be an alternative to scalaris (in Java too although)
Comet Daily » Blog Archive » 20,000 Reasons Why Comet Scales
After some recent optimizations, the Dojo Cometd implementation of the Bayeux protocol running on the Jetty web server can now handle up to 20,000 simultaneous users per server while maintaining sub-second latency.
impressive numbers. Does the Twisted one can beat that?
London Lights – welovelocal Blog
(via)I made these videos using Processing, a Java-based language, to make these data visualization videos of welovelocal’s London reviews over time. They span from the start of welovelocal to January 29th, 2008. The colour of each dot represents the rating of each review with red being 1 star and green being 5 stars.
very nice visualizations of rating of the time, mostly green though.
