SunMink

Simon Phipps's other Weblog
(a WebMink in the Sun)

☞ Semantics, Ancient and Modern

• Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read
  Fascinating overview of the challenges deciphering ancient languages. At least there's no DRM or obsolete media to overcome.
  (tags: Language History Archaeology linguistics)
• Palestrantes - FISL 10
  Great line-up of speakers for the 10th anniversary meeting of FISL in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at the end of June.
  (tags: FISL FISL10 FISL2009 Events FOSS OpenSource SimonPhipps)
• Topsy Labs Blog - Hello, World!
  Fascinating background on the thinking behind Topsy.
  (tags: Topsy Search Social SocialGraph SocialNetworking)
• Topsy
  "A search engine powered by tweets". Congratulations to Rishab Ghosh and his colleagues on their emergence from stealth mode with their social-graph-powered search engine. Inspired marketing to associate it with Twitter too!
  (tags: Topsy Search Twitter Social socialnetworking)
• What's in a Name: Can Trademarks be Helpful to Free Software Projects?
  I'll be speaking at OSCON 2009 - using material from Tiki Dare's wonderful paper on open source communities and trademarks.
  (tags: OSCON OSCON2009 FOSS OpenSource Community Trademark Events SimonPhipps)

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