Around the web – March 29, 2008

Another weekly roundup. Spent a good chunk of the week in airplanes and airports, so a little leaner than usual

Linkfest

• Microformats university
• The Tetherless World Constellation
• Friendfeed grid
• ConceptNet NLP toolkit
• Stories on maps (via O’Reilly Radar)
• Dan Roam’s Back of the Napkin – Everything indicates that this is a must have
• The Human Network

Multimedia

• Cluster computing for the classroom (you don’t have to have Silverlight for this. At the bottom there are links for mp3 and WMA)
• Jim Hendler talks to Paul Miller. This is a great great interview I loved it

Blogspotting

• The all new ambermac.com. I quite like the new design and how video is incorporated
• Tom Morris – Tom’s Blog (it’s almost a Tumblelog) is a reflection of the man. I don’t know him, but after hearing him talk to Danny Ayers I’m a fan. Might not agree with everything he says, but I like those who call a spade to spade and not just based on rhetoric

Events

• XTech registration is open. Just check out the schedule featuring such luminaries as Alf Eaton and Andrew Walkingshaw
• O’Reilly’s Velocity conference. There is a trend on conferences looking at web infrastructure, including
• Structure ’08
• Yuri’s Night is right around the corner

Self Assembly

Here is a list of some feeds you could subscribe to

• bbgm
• bbgm – comments
• Tumblelog
• Kyte channel
• Videos from bbgm
• and last but not the least, the bioscreencast blog

In my Wiki, I’ve been trying to pen down my strategy to become a hacker again. There is a lot to learn and time is always the enemy. What I’ve penned there is roughly how things are proceeding as we speak. The key decision was to try and limit technologies and focus on developing on top of the Talis Platform. It’s more of a true web platform, and I’ve taken a real liking to the people involved. It’s been really slow going, but last couple of weeks things have begun to pick up just a bit.