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• Whatever happened to Twitter Annotations?

  In April 2010 Twitter announced a new feature that they would soon be introducing - Twitter Annotations. Put simply Twitter Annotations can be described as the ability to attach metadata to a tweet; think hashtags on steroids. Lots of people were quite Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:46 AM by jamiet | 3 Comments Filed under: random waffle, twitter

• Why a SQL or BI developer should learn .Net

  Siddharth Mehta posted a nice blog post today entitled Why a SQL developer of BI developer should learn .Net in which he outlined four reasons that he thinks make it beneficial for SQL Server developers to have an appreciation of .Net. Those reasons being: Read More... Posted Monday, July 05, 2010 1:59 PM by jamiet | 13 Comments Filed under: random waffle

• Personal search – the future of search

  [Four months ago I wrote a meandering blog post on another blogging site entitled Personal search – the future of search . The points I made therein are becoming more relevant to what I'm reading about and hoping to get involved in in the future so I'm Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:28 PM by jamiet | 1 Comments Filed under: random waffle

• Subscribable World Cup 2010 Calendar

  I bang on quite a lot on this blog about ways in which data can get published over the web and one of the most interesting ways, in my opinion, of publishing data in a structured manner that is well understood is to use the iCalendar specification . There Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 25, 2010 10:02 PM by jamiet | 7 Comments Filed under: iCalendar, random waffle

• Interesting things – Twitter annotations and your phone as a web server

  I overheard/read a couple of things today that really made me, data junkie that I am, take a step back and think, “Hmmm, yeah, that could be really interesting” and I wanted to make a note of them here so that (a) I could bring them to the attention of Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 21, 2010 11:41 PM by jamiet | 10 Comments Filed under: entity-attribute-value, random waffle, twitter

• Twitter status id conundrum

  I have an interest, a slightly perverse one some might say, in using online services and trying to figure out what the underlying (logical) data model is and in this day and age Twitter is one that lends itself very well to scrutiny. Consider this recent Read More... Posted Sunday, April 18, 2010 5:05 PM by jamiet | 5 Comments Filed under: data modelling, random waffle, twitter

• Bing brings Twitter aggregation to search results

  I read with interest today a post on the Bing blog Get the Latest on Twitter with Bing Social Search which describes how tweets are soon going to show up in Bing search results. On the surface that isn’t very interesting, Google has been doing this for Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 13, 2010 9:13 PM by jamiet | 0 Comments Filed under: Bing, Business Intelligence, random waffle

• I spy a Live Framework portal

  Those that have followed my blogs for a while may know that I have a slightly banal interest in Windows Live and, more specifically, the Live Services developer platform'; if that doesn’t sound interesting to you then stop reading now. My interest mainly Read More... Posted Thursday, March 18, 2010 11:24 PM by jamiet | 0 Comments Filed under: Azure, live framework, Live Services, livefx, random waffle