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Overcoming the limits of time, space, bandwidth: Now that's extreme!

Official announcement to come shortly!

A la prochaine fois!

Next year: August 10 - 14, 2009, at the incomparable Hotel Europa, Montreal.

2008 Conference Proceedings now available!

See here.

Heard in the halls

In no particular order, and attributed to no particular person:

Interactive is only really fast batch.

Does that make RESTful just very fast messsages?

The Heraclitean nightmare of never stepping into the same runtime environment twice.

[The] glory of standards is between you and your Maker.

The only reason for a corporation to participate in standards work is that it doesn't already control the market.

The book of changes

Even if out of date. So, IEML (Information Economy Meta Language):

Ouch!

The rate of exchange. Sure, the Euro.

God bless us, every one

TinyTiM released as beta.

Google insights launched

Try XQuery vs. XSLT.

Or topic maps vs. RDF.

How does Google do it?

Sacrificing a version to...

I just had to write that headline. Sorry.

Fun or at least function with XQuery