Ben Werdmuller

Tag: open data

  • The Edinburgh Festivals API: a case study in innovation

    I was the inaugural Geek in Residence at the Edinburgh Festivals Innovation Lab, working with Rohan Gunatillake and the Edinburgh Festivals on open data and digital accessibility. Here’s a video from Rudman Consulting for AmbiTIon Scotland about the Festivals API portion of the project:

  • Open data in the arts

    I’m in New York this week for a whirlwind series of meetings with Team Latakoo, but I wanted to draw a little attention to the introduction to open data in the arts I wrote over on the festivalslab blog before I got here: Open data sounds like a much more techie concept than it really […]

  • Direct messaging in a social web architecture

    This post is the third segment in my series on an architecture for the social web. Previously: How social networks can replace email, which is a non-technical approach to the issues, and my follow-up describing how to build a social web architecture using available technology today. So what about direct messaging? In my previous post, […]

  • Activity Streams and OAuth: a social web architecture

    My previous post was a response to Gartner’s prediction last month that social networking would replace email as the “primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20 percent of business users.” In it, I named some properties that would need to be held by any social networking system that would successfully replace email. Ease of use […]