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July, 2013

Building latakoo into a flexible media database

I don't think it's saying too much to talk about how we're building latakoo into a cloud media database. Customers from all over the world - a large number of which are television journalists - are using us to send footage, archive it in a searchable way, and synchronize it ...
July 27, 2013

On engineering the life I want to lead.

Here are some of my high-level life goals. Some are pretty universal and bland; others are specifically mine: Have a positive, progressive impact on the world Live comfortably Work on projects I'm proud of in collaboration with great people, which allow me to fulfil the previous two goals Be able to choose my location, ...
July 18, 2013

A new way to measure continued progress of existence and events.

Today we're introducing a new app to measure the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present and future, regarded as a whole. It's a new way to determine where you are in your day, your week, and even your life, and we're rolling it out across ...
July 10, 2013

Latakoo in Broadcasting & Cable

We got a mention in Broadcasting & Cable magazine! You've got to be a subscriber to read it, so here's a pertinent excerpt: One notable example of those efforts can be found at NBC News, which in 2011 became the first U.S. broadcaster to set up an online site that allowed clients ...
July 10, 2013

The #indieweb as a minimum viable social web ecosystem

This piece was submitted as a position paper for the W3C's Workshop on Social Standards: The Future of Business, due to be held on August 7-8, 2013, in San Francisco. Really interoperable interoperability Much has been written about both the power of APIs to connect social applications in powerful ways, and vendor ...
July 10, 2013

What idno is

This site runs on idno: an open source social publishing platform that I've been working on for the past few months in my own time. You may know that I co-founded Elgg, the open source social networking engine, which is used by the likes of Oxfam, NASA, the World Bank and ...
July 3, 2013