I’ve just had a very interesting experience that sheds light on some important issues regarding copyright, online data and crowdsourced media such as wikis. I thought I’d share the story to spark a debate on these issues. For a couple of years I’ve worked on and off on a simple web based system for maintaining [...]
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Adventures in copyright: Open access, data and wikis
Posted in General, Philosophy, data, english, langtech on April 18, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Spurl launches an Icelandic search engine
Posted in english, langtech, search on December 15, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Originally posted on the Spurl.net forums on November 1st 2005 Spurl.net just launched an Icelandic search engine with the leading local portal / news site mbl.is. Although Iceland is small, mbl.is is a nice, mid-size portal with some 210,000 unique visitors per week – so this has significant exposure. The search engine is called Embla [...]
Hjálmar Gíslason
A technology enthusiast and general nerd living in Iceland. Founder of four tech-companies. Currently working on DataMarket.
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- er að leita að klárum nörd sem er til í að taka að sér smá Google Maps mashup verkefni fyrir félaga minn - anyone? 8 minutes ago
- @andresjons @gthb Hvað með brottvísun fagráðherranna, skemmdarverk Möllers og togstreituna í flokkunum? Hefði ekki boðið í "illa heppnað"! 3 hours ago
- The days are just packed! 16 hours ago
- Oh, that's cute. Google Checkout knows the format of Icelandic postal codes. In comparison, Apple removed us from the world map :) 18 hours ago
- @pallih Ekki alslæmt (þ.e. þetta er þarna), en væri gagnlegt að sjálfar tölurnar væru aðgengilegar, en ekki bara myndir af þeim. 3 days ago
- RT @gthb Oh, neatly put: “If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold” http://url.is/3wm 3 days ago
- @bjalli @grapewire Þetta er alveg sniðugt - svona í fyrstu 20 skiptin :) Stundum koma innslögin líka í kippum. Fékk 5 í röð fyrr í dag?!? 4 days ago
- Býsna góð samantekt á Wikipedia (ensku) um stöðu og bakgrunn aðildarviðræðna Íslands að Evrópusambandinu: http://bit.ly/cpD8cB 4 days ago
- @grapewire Er ekki hægt að fækka aðeins innslögunum ykkar? Færi ekkert á milli mála á hvað er hlustað þó þeim myndi fækka um svona 80% :) 4 days ago
- @smarimc Jobs is no longer about tech breakthroughs, but making it easy to use and bringing it to the masses - which is far more difficult 5 days ago
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