Adrian Holovaty, "EveryBlock: A News Feed for Your Block" O'Reilly Video Building on its influential predecessor chicagocrime.org, EveryBlock takes the local-data mashup to new levels. Founder and hacker Adrian Holovaty talks about the philosophy and technology behind EveryBlock, the untapped potential of address-specific news, open data, and life after… read more Kurt Cagle

Geoff Zeiss, "Convergence of Architectural and Engineering Design and Location Technology O'Reilly Video Geoff Zeiss (Autodesk, Inc.)--Convergence is about breaking down islands of information based on traditional disciplines or professional categories or those created by the traditional organization of the architecture, engineering, construction, transportation, and utility and telecommunications industries. The convergence… read more Kurt Cagle

Paul Torrens, "Modeling Crowd Behavior" Paul Torrens (Arizona State University)--Ambient crowds are the new distributed computing platform. Smart mobs are fashioning new architectures for social networking. Armed with cell phones and mobile gaming devices, they are the new business model for location-based services. Seditious crowds are creating havoc in urban theaters of war and at global economic forums. Crowds of shoppers, endowed with smart chip credit cards and RFID tagged merchandise are trailed by long-lasting data shadows that follow them ubiquitously. Kurt Cagle

A Look at MapQuest's Users O'Reilly Video James Greiner, Senior Vice President and General Manager, MapQuest, Inc. In preparation for Where 2.0, MapQuest conducted an ethnography study. The massive survey polled users on what they want from location-based services, mapping sites, and in mobile. It… read more Kurt Cagle

State of the GeoWeb O'Reilly Video Since Google first presented a snapshot of the geoweb at last year's Where 2.0, it has considerably evolved: more Geo data is published on the web, KML was accepted as an OGC standard and is adopted by a… read more Kurt Cagle

Quick! Word Association: XML Today I took some time to quickly scan through a backlog in my feed reader. There were a good number anti-XML articles cropping up. This got me thinking. What do you think of when I say "XML"? I personally associate… read more Eric Larson

[len:QOTD] Ready, Fire, Aim Update: len trumps his own QOTD with these two gems. I'll let you decide which you feel is funnier/more accurate, cuz' I can't decide, I try to tell him that no element is *really* non-terminating but he gets wrapped up… read more M. David Peterson

Direct AtomPub Object Model Support Makes It Into .NET Framework Brain.Save() - We are pleased to bring you new features in .NET 3.5 SP1 Syndication OM for the Atom Publishing Protocol. We added strongly-typed OM for all of the constructs defined in the Atom Publishing Protocol specification (like ServiceDocument and… read more M. David Peterson

[AWS:EC2] Preparing For EC2 Persistent Storage: Redundant Disk Storage Across Multiple EC2 Nodes *Today* So as Jeff Barr recently pointed out over on the Amazon Web Services blog, Amazon Web Services Blog: Redundant Disk Storage Across Multiple EC2 XML Hacker M. David Peterson has put together a really interesting article. As part of his… read more M. David Peterson

Is it really that taxing... Jeff Atwood mentions the Angle Bracket Tax and not surprisingly, I don't agree. XML can be difficult and painful at times, but I think the reasons are not entirely technical. Recently, I had the opportunity to work with XML in… read more Eric Larson

Requirements of Japanese Text Layout I've just caught up with this document from W3C which fills in a big gap in English-language technical material. Japanese typesetting technology has been very influential in the other Ideographic countries, and they share many commonalities (e.g. Japanese ruby text… read more Rick Jelliffe

Introductions are in order Hello all. My name is Griffin Caprio and I'm a new blogger here on xml.com. Apologies are in order to Kurt, my fearless editor, since this is my first post and I actually came into the O'Reilly fold back in… read more Griffin Caprio

JavaFX snubs XML and takes a step backwards! I wonder, if in the rush to push something out the door, Sun forgot about separation of concerns and the benefits of skill specialization to quality production. Michael C. Daconta

Don't show me problems show me answers, and don't show me them either! A couple of years back I had a very surprising experience with a junior programmer, who had just joined our team. I had asked him to work on some code until there were no more JUnit errors. A few hours… read more Rick Jelliffe

Exploring IBM Business Glossary XML The IBM Information Server has an XML format to allow you to import/export business glossaries ... There is a lot to talk about in examining this format. There is the good, the bad and the ugly in this format ... So, it is clear that this format will evolve. A bigger question is - should it? And should it even have been created in the first place? Michael C. Daconta