tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99041492010-03-17T01:47:48.470+01:00Observations on Internet technology development and other random nonsense.stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-71610132718246339702008-08-03T19:20:00.002+02:002008-08-06T23:06:45.820+02:002008-08-06T23:06:45.820+02:00

As many of you know, at the end of last year we started 3scale and things have been racing along since - not much time to think, let alone blog :), but with several systems under our belt things are looking good and it's a great time to start blogging again.After giving it a lot of thought though, I decided that rather than reviving this blog I'd start up a new space over at typepad (check it out

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1167671057274270142007-01-01T18:03:00.000+01:002007-01-01T18:04:48.616+01:002007-01-01T18:04:48.616+01:00

- seems even a French strike couldn't stop it!

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1165092373901344562006-12-02T21:15:00.000+01:002007-01-01T18:04:31.736+01:002007-01-01T18:04:31.736+01:00

Seems data issues are still best at getting me posting! Having had a bit of time to catch up on news. How do this - Click here for more of the USAs deeply invasive profiling and data trawling initiatives... - and this - US Safe-Habour Data policies for Internet business interact?It seems ATS is clearly after "non-airline" data - things like click here for Google's great calendar system would be

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1160515043570334382006-10-10T23:14:00.000+02:002006-10-10T23:17:23.596+02:002006-10-10T23:17:23.596+02:00

Life has been very hectic - hence the hiatus! But sometimes issues just make you want to post - like this capitulation to US data demands in the PNR Agreement - pretty shocking. Think twice about flying to the US... or hang on probably it doesn't make any difference - they can probably grab your data anyway. Hope that I can get some momentum to get back to posting!

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1141825733395298792006-03-08T14:46:00.000+01:002006-03-08T14:48:53.413+01:002006-03-08T14:48:53.413+01:00

After a long absence trying to get back to posting: something interesting on Service Oriented Architectures but particular on the benefits of innovation to companies. Industrial motivations for joining European Projects anybody?

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1137439008488938892006-01-16T20:14:00.000+01:002006-01-16T20:19:21.543+01:002006-01-16T20:19:21.543+01:00

A great video presentation on the in-and-outs of fair use in the Google books project. Lets see if this embedding from YouTube works (if not go here):

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1137009653411980982006-01-11T20:57:00.000+01:002006-01-11T21:00:53.426+01:002006-01-11T21:00:53.426+01:00

Shows how much online worlds are progressing - Lawrence Lessing will be holding court in second life on Wednesday... I expect well see this more and more - I'm waiting for our first Second Life EU project meetings!

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1136747909066897612006-01-08T20:12:00.000+01:002006-01-08T20:18:29.176+01:002006-01-08T20:18:29.176+01:00

DRM gone mad. The original coldplay DRM story in particular is madness - however it seems to me that record companies a long time ago gave up the idea that they are producing CDs according to the Philips standard - so the fact that it plays on almost nothing maybe shouldn't be that suprising!

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1136376091463253862006-01-04T13:00:00.000+01:002006-01-04T13:01:31.476+01:002006-01-04T13:01:31.476+01:00

Happily it looks like Creative Commons made it to their target - great news!

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1135975089272766522005-12-30T21:33:00.000+01:002005-12-30T21:38:09.293+01:002005-12-30T21:38:09.293+01:00

Yes, i've been away an age - but November and December were just a nightmare of trips and work! The least I can do is come back with a shout for the Creative Commons fundraising appeal which now has about 36hours to go and is less than $6,000 short of its $225,000 target to ensure it keeps tax exempt status (see here). So do a good deed to end 2005!

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1131352616897868862005-11-07T09:34:00.000+01:002005-11-07T09:36:56.910+01:002005-11-07T09:36:56.910+01:00

Hat tip to omer for spotting this - Human area networks for up to 10Mb/s across your skin :-). Makes you wonder what you can connect with this - and when they'll be able to do the same with battery power!

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1129123402083034152005-10-12T15:13:00.000+02:002005-10-12T15:23:22.110+02:002005-10-12T15:23:22.110+02:00

Reported in various places including New Scientist, GCN and Slashdot four vehicles completed the Darpa grand Challenge in under the 10hr time limit, and one more completed it outside the time - hugely impressive. All of these vehicles (a Volkswagen Tuareg, two Humvees, a Ford and a Military truck) had to cover 212km across dessert terrain completely unassisted (no human drivers, no human

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1128845307902388352005-10-09T10:06:00.000+02:002005-10-09T10:09:05.523+02:002005-10-09T10:09:05.523+02:00

A good reminder that i should update my publications list and sort out what to do about CC licensing - these links from Peter are an interesting read: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/journals.html http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1128845187983556822005-10-09T10:04:00.000+02:002005-10-09T10:06:27.983+02:002005-10-09T10:06:27.983+02:00

After some playing around with Blogger i've turned anonymous comments BACK ON but with a passcode mechanism designed to fool scripts (lets hope so...). Most of the Blog spam was pretty inane so quite likely script generated :-/. Anyway, hopefully this will help. Interestingly Blogger seems to give no means of an overview over all comments - you have to hunt them across all your posts...

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1128494858047593392005-10-05T08:46:00.000+02:002005-10-05T08:47:38.053+02:002005-10-05T08:47:38.053+02:00

Had to disable the comment posting mechanisms after an influx of spam while i work out how to deal with it :-(, seems like you cant escape it anywhere!

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1127744141798314342005-09-26T15:59:00.000+02:002005-09-26T16:16:42.766+02:002005-09-26T16:16:42.766+02:00

Long time no posts after a firestorm of deadlines but here's a nice result of one of them. Agentlink just finished the second version of its Agent technology Roadmap. This is the elecronic form - printed glossies to come!Congratulations to Mike Luck and Serena Raffin or worked huge hours to get this out - it would never have happened without the pushing it. A lot of people also contributed -

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1126292243887538252005-09-09T20:45:00.000+02:002005-09-09T20:57:23.896+02:002005-09-09T20:57:23.896+02:00

Just as your're getting to grips with getting back to work - time to sneak of to a conference or get your papers in: High Performance Computing and Communications. Autonomic Computing 2006 in Dublin [Submission Deadline 22nd January, 2006]. the European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems 2005 [Submission Deadline 23rd of September]. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2006 [Submission

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1124314890587478762005-08-17T23:40:00.000+02:002005-08-17T23:41:30.593+02:002005-08-17T23:41:30.593+02:00

Hot off the press from the onion.

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1123661256560938642005-08-10T10:05:00.000+02:002005-08-10T10:07:36.566+02:002005-08-10T10:07:36.566+02:00

I didn't manage to get to IJCAI but good to see that the Register was there.

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1123499940199093452005-08-08T13:17:00.000+02:002005-08-08T13:19:00.203+02:002005-08-08T13:19:00.203+02:00

Mixed-reality Cyberspace gets closer to society in Korea [Wired Magazine].

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1123320394319502562005-08-06T11:23:00.000+02:002005-08-06T11:26:34.326+02:002005-08-06T11:26:34.326+02:00

For users of AXIS Web services tools, a new company called WS02 is to start providing commercial support. Could be good news that keeps the OS source stream competitive with commercial offerings. [First read on the SOA blog]

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1123317830650725532005-08-06T10:41:00.000+02:002005-08-06T10:43:50.656+02:002005-08-06T10:43:50.656+02:00

An interesting article on software patents in the New York Times (you may need to register). Thanks for the tip Peter + this nice discussion on the evolution of the web in Wired magazine.

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1121868080330800092005-07-20T15:59:00.000+02:002005-09-09T20:58:43.683+02:002005-09-09T20:58:43.683+02:00

I'm just off to AAMAS, but just some parting good news from the Onion - one economy is finally on the up.

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1121204089201552802005-07-12T23:34:00.000+02:002005-07-12T23:40:50.550+02:002005-07-12T23:40:50.550+02:00

Just trying Haloscan.

stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15440606025505617728noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9904149.post-1121203507939778342005-07-12T23:13:00.000+02:002005-07-13T00:06:38.126+02:002005-07-13T00:06:38.126+02:00

Lawrence Lessing's blog has a story on record companies complaining about the BBC release fo free recordings. While the title seems a little erroneous to me ("is public domain illegal" - but the story is really about fair/unfair competition) it's an interesting issue. One comment says: "The record companies here make a fair point. It is not that the music itself is not in the public domain, but

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