drewp for 2008 November
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2008-11-02T10:08:32 Graphs from sparql results:

This is a response to Download SPARQL results directly into a spreadsheet

So far you've motivated seeing the results of a query in a table and making a graph from them. I'd like to have both of those capabilities in a webapp. E.g. I should be able to embed a live graph in my own page like this:

<img src="http://sparqlgrapher.com/svg/example.com/query=SELECT+?date+?price+{...}">

Visiting my hypothetical sparqlgrapher.com directly would give you a UI to layout and customize the graph. When you're done, you'd take that url and embed it elsewhere (or just take a copy of the image, if you want a one-off).

[No comments] 2008-11-16T22:52:04 Virtual Gift Factory:

Hey, archive.org has a project I worked on 11 years ago: a web site to send virtual gifts (custom images) to other people.

Virtual Gift Factory

Many images are missing. They were various candies and chocolates that we found or scanned. The site would randomly place the images over your choice of background, and then save that image for your recipient.

The site did really well in Australia, for reasons we never learned. Maybe it was mentioned in a magazine there or something.

I have the original files on disk, and they show up 4 times in various backups over the years. That number seems low, given how sloppy my backup procedures are. The code looks like 9 perl cgi programs, 860 SLOC total. The storage is an ad-hoc text file format, and it looks like this version sent 1800 gifts (400 with .au in the addresses). I still have the messages people wrote to each other. I suspect they're different from what people would write today, but I can't even think how to rerelease something like this given the spam problem.

On the site information page, you can see my friends who worked on the site. I think these are their jobs today (not in order):

That's a project I want to do in the future, by the way. I want to list all the jobs of all the people I know, and you list all the jobs of people you know, etc. Then when I need someone with, say, access to a fog machine, or someone who can design and print me a poster, or someone who can advise on IP law, I just search the job network for people close to me. It would be like a slice of what linkedin.com does, but without any need for a central company like linkedin to broker all the private data (because there isn't any).

 

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