Simon Willison’s Weblog

1st July 2008 - Link Blog

Delighting with Data. Tom Taylor’s full transcript and slides for his recent talk at Oxford Geek Night—talks about Twitter bots, wikinear, iamnear.net and various other small but neat data repurposing projects.

Posted 1st July 2008 at 1:24 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 1st July 2008.

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