2014-02-17 (Monday)

If you ever thought the cookie warning you’ve been forced to put on your website was onerous, at least it’s not this starpubs.co.uk

I wrote about the thing I unexpectedly like best about Snapchat: gyford.com/phil/writing/2…

(To clarify earlier tweet, ViziCities isn’t just a 3D map of London, but everywhere (that has the data). vizicities.apps.rawk.es )

@robhawkes I’ve belatedly realised that, yes! Good work!

Ooh, new ViziCities demo (3D London model), and you can install your own off of GitHub: vizicities.apps.rawk.es

@Beeker I might start a new social network, devoted solely to letting me know when programmes I like are coming on telly.

@boutique_felix That sounded negative - I like it, more than a mouse. I just prefer the position of a MacBook trackpad - less side movement.

@boutique_felix Yes, I do. Prefer using a trackpad on a MacBook though, but I’m on an iMac at work.

@agpublic I’d assume Google would pull out more author names if they could: news.google.com/news Only a few there.

@agpublic I *guess* it’s still hard. I’m not sure what you’d do with being 90% certain you know which bit of text is an author’s name.

@agpublic It’s really basic, very common, data, but very hard to work out from a page’s HTML. (Not that I’m a semantic web nut.)

@agpublic A simple problem from a past project: Try to programatically find the authors and publish date of articles on any website.

@alruii Oh yes, I forgot that. That was annoying. I guess I assumed it was more audio fingerprinting or something.

Of the De La Soul albums I grabbed, iTunes Match matched most of two of them, but not three others. Not sure I understand iTunes Match.

@mattsheret Ahhh, good, right, OK :)

@mattsheret Really what? I haven't seen it yet.