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Open Data Definition
The Open Data Definition is a forthcoming draft format designed to be an extremely simple method for moving your data from one social network to another, subscribing to a user's profile like a kind of social RSS feed, or streaming updates between two or more services.
posted to Projects by bwerdmuller
at 9:03 AM on April 20, 2008
Curverider are a web startup based in the South East. We're looking for an experienced, creative, hard-working PHP developer who understands both the web and how to put a web application - as opposed to a website - together.
Although telecommuting is OK for part of the time, there will also be a fair amount of face-to-face interaction, so you must be based in Oxford, London or the surrounding area.
To apply, please respond with your CV, or call 07748 634754 for more details. No agencies or consultancies, please.
posted to MeFi Jobs by bwerdmuller
at 4:12 AM on February 20, 2008
Curverider produces web community platforms. We need people who can produce good code quickly for our latest project, code-named Searunner. Preferably, we want clued-in people who understand the web and its surrounding issues - MeFi members are a good fit!
In-house we code to a clean, procedural style; don't worry if you're not totally up to date with the latest features of PHP5 or object orientated code. That stuff, you'll need to be able to learn, but we're mostly interested in people who like to build things and make them work well. If you get a buzz from watching people come in and use something you've built, and you understand that the user is the most important part of any system, we want to hear from you.
posted to MeFi Jobs by bwerdmuller
at 8:42 AM on November 26, 2007
Hey! We're looking for web developers to work on the next version of our open source social networking framework (and the projects that spring out of it, which are both end-user websites and intranet facilities).We are:
- An innovative Oxford based start-up, hard at work bringing social networking to business, education, non-profits and anyone we can make more efficient.
- Committed to open source software and business methodologies.
- A friendly and relaxed, but driven, small team.
- Interested in dynamic people who bring something new to the table.
You are:
- Creative but level-headed.
- Both able and willing to clearly share your own ideas as well as listen to and discuss other people's with an open mind.
- A genuine web user who understands net culture, is excited by the medium and sees its wider implications.
- An old hand at programming for LAMP environments, with some experience of object orientated methodologies. Bonus points for additional experience with any of CakePHP, the Yahoo! UI library or similar, and IIS. We care much more about what you've done than what certificates you have: show us the web apps you're most proud of.
- Friendly and relaxed, but efficient.
- A fluent English speaker.
- Happy with both telecommuting and working from the office.
- Willing to work at a company called "Curverider", with a largely non-violent attitude towards people who use words like "folksonomy".
To apply:
Send us your CV, preferably in PDF or a common wordprocessor format, to us at info@curverider.co.uk. Also include a brief covering letter about you, a website URL that represents you (eg a Facebook profile), a web application you've written and the answers to these six questions, including as much or as little detail as you think is necessary:
- Describe, in English, a simple user login mechanism, including potential security risks and how to overcome them.
- What is AJAX? How does it work? When shouldn't you use it?
- Explain inheritance.
- Pick three community websites and describe their relative merits.
- What, for you, are the most important aspects of a web application?
- Register with http://eduspaces.net/ and explore the system. How would you improve it?
posted to MeFi Jobs by bwerdmuller
at 8:08 AM on June 15, 2007
Explode!
The go-anywhere social network. Add people as a friend no matter what network they're on.
posted to Projects by bwerdmuller
at 8:01 AM on February 20, 2007
Rum and Monkey
My puerile satire site has been around for almost five years, but was today reborn as a blog. It's not big, it's not clever, but maybe someone will think of it as a kind of guilty pleasure.
posted to Projects by bwerdmuller
at 9:53 PM on December 18, 2006
Elgg Spaces
Create your own social networking site, for free, with no programming or server administration. Each site contains blogs, embedded files, podcasting, cross-site tagging, RSS aggregator and a tag-enabled profile. Each item has access restrictions and very granular outgoing RSS. Based on the open source
Elgg engine.
posted to Projects by bwerdmuller
at 9:22 AM on November 8, 2006
The James Martin Institute World Forum 2006
Lots of webcasts about lifespan longevity and redefining what it means to be human, including one featuring
the world's first cyborg. The conference is ongoing, so it maybe worth checking back for later webcasts.
Not technically my project, but close enough to my job to potentially be considered a self-link in the blue: I did the back-end CMS for the website.
posted to Projects by bwerdmuller
at 9:00 AM on March 15, 2006
I represent a UK company reselling US server space to EU companies. Which parties have to adhere to
safe harbor?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bwerdmuller
at 3:08 PM on February 7, 2006
(2 comments)
What's the best way to distribute my sister's music?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bwerdmuller
at 5:40 AM on January 26, 2006
(8 comments)
Elgg
Elgg is an open source
Learning Landscape (PDF) system that allows individuals at an institution to collaborate and learn using Web 2.0 tools - basically stuff that people have been using to create their own digital identities and share ideas for years. Weblogging, podcasting/videocasting, social networking and file repositories are all features, plus a whole bunch of XML feeds (currently RSS and FOAF). Users can either sign up
at the hosted site or install their own system.
posted to Projects by bwerdmuller
at 4:05 AM on November 22, 2005
I need to print a short run of hardback books, hopefully relatively inexpensively. Does anyone have any good experiences with any firms? Delivery would be to California.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bwerdmuller
at 4:48 AM on November 2, 2005
(2 comments)
What's the best (and cheapest) way to record a Skype conversation?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bwerdmuller
at 1:34 AM on July 26, 2005
(3 comments)
My dad wants software to create stand-alone multimedia quizzes.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bwerdmuller
at 9:49 AM on April 9, 2005
(3 comments)
I'm working for a large, well-known organisation, which is looking for a content management system that will run well (and securely) on Windows 2003 servers.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bwerdmuller
at 5:05 AM on March 15, 2005
(7 comments)
I run a fairly popular website that recently has started getting in excess of half a million pageviews (~1.7 million hits) a day. The usership mainly consists of teenagers and college students, who come back day after day but don't have a lot of money at their disposal - yet it seems to me that I should be able to turn this sort of traffic into something profitable. Yet I have no idea how, without charging money for things; Adsense yields very little for my keywords, and banner ads are giving me around $11 a day. Does anyone have any experience with this? I'd love to eventually quit my day job and do this full time.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bwerdmuller
at 3:17 AM on July 7, 2004
(20 comments)
I'm looking for a weblogging system for an academic course. Unfortunately, MT and Blogger don't seem to meet my needs: it has to have multiple users, user groups, and posts need to have access control (certain posts can only be read by certain groups). LiveJournal offers this, but I don't want to have to set up an entire LJ server. Is there some kind of middle ground?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bwerdmuller
at 2:29 AM on June 30, 2004
(9 comments)
So here's a delightfully geeky programming question for those in the know: I need to build a system, preferably in PHP, with a highly extensible plug-in system. And I don't know where to start, although I figure an OO-orientated approach might help. Any ideas?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bwerdmuller
at 6:52 AM on April 23, 2004
(6 comments)
Now that Paypal doesn't require people making payments to actually be a member, and allows merchants to configure their payment pages, I'm considering using it for a Web project. Yet, at the same time, I'm aware that a lot of people consider it to be Bad and Wrong.
Who would you lot recommend for reputable online payments? I'm in the UK and have a teeny tiny budget, but I'm doing this for a large organisation.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bwerdmuller
at 3:55 AM on March 3, 2004
(11 comments)
When's the right time to reveal your disability to your prospective employer? Say you're deaf, and while it won't impact on your ability to do the job, you don't want to surprise them. Do you just turn up at interview and let them see your hearing aids, or ..?
posted to Ask Metafilter by bwerdmuller
at 2:56 AM on February 18, 2004
(12 comments)
What's the best way to stay alert while chained to a computer for nine hours a day? I take regular breaks but still find myself flagging by mid-afternoon. Preferably the answer shouldn't involve too much caffeine or sugar, because I'm also trying to lose weight.
posted to Ask Metafilter by bwerdmuller
at 5:57 AM on February 4, 2004
(25 comments)
The UK has been urged to ban the smacking of children.
We signed the UN convention on the rights of the child eleven years ago, but have since failed to condemn the practice, leading the UN in turn to condemn
us. Some armchair pundits on
BBC Online are saying they'll continue to smack even if it's illegal - have the UN overreached, or this really as bad as they say it is?
posted to MetaFilter by bwerdmuller
at 2:16 PM on October 4, 2002
(40 comments)
