Tonight we tagged a svn “invitational beta” branch for next weeks Freemix launch at 2009 SemTech. This is a huge accomplishment by an absolutely extraordinary team.
While there is still a lot of work to do (this is only the beginning ), this marks an important milestone toward making it easier for people, [...]
Stu Weibel’s post on ‘List Making Meets Redirection’ prompted me to comment on some of the Active PURL work (PURLs with associated services) we at Zepheira has been developing. Example ‘Active PURLs’ might be notification to publishers of problems with target URLs (basically a link-checker for PURLs), notification to readers of updates to target [...]
For a long time I’ve been thinking how useful it would be to give PURLS to people as a key part for managing evolving social networks. And now that the new purl work we’re doing at Zepheira (which is downright scary-good due to in part a rock solid engineering team and the use of NetKernel [...]
15 years ago, I was involved in series of discussions at the IETF regarding technical standards related to identifying resources in decentralized environments. Acronyms such as “URI”, “URN”, “URL”, “URC” (and occasionally the phrase “you are kidding?!”) where constantly thrown around with much heated debate regarding requirements, protocols, semantics and capabilities for each of these [...]
Several folks have asked me privately about Zepheira … more specifically what we do, how to pronounce it and where the name came. The following is a poor attempt to minimize future inquiries
Ok, first, what is it… the home page captures some of this:
Zepheira provides solutions to integrate, navigate and manage data across [...]