Author: Dominique Guinard

Our Workshop Presentation @ SXSW 2010 3,446

Research / Technology

14 Mar, 2010

Our Workshop Presentation @ SXSW 2010

We just finished our Web of Things workshop @ SXSW 2010. A really impressive conference room (or should I say football-field…) with great, very enthusiastic, awake people and a great host! Thanks to you all for coming. Thanks for your feedbacks Let’s continue the discussion here and on Twitter #webofthings. You’ll find the slides below and the doggy bag here. Web of Things – Connecting People and Objects on the Web View more presentations from Dominique Guinard.

When Things Will “Speak Web”: Invited Lecture at Lancaster University 4,446

Research / Technology

26 Feb, 2010

When Things Will “Speak Web”: Invited Lecture at Lancaster University

A few days ago, I was kindly invited by Gerd Kortuem to give a lecture on the Web of Things for students of Lancaster University. The talk was given in frame of a “Software Innovation and Entrepreneurship” lecture. Thus, the students had both business and technical backgrounds. I quite enjoyed giving it especially since the students asked very relevant questions on aspects such as security, discovery, the real-time Web, etc. You can find a full recording (about 1.5 hours) of the lecture here, but you’ll need to install the plug-in to watch it (sorry about that!). Alternatively you can find...

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Featured / Research

2 Feb, 2010

Implementing a Social Web of Things

There are still many challenges to face towards a Web of Things: discovery, search, scalability, event driven interactions and sharing. For the last few month we’ve been focusing on the latter, because let’s face it: if you do not have a mechanism to share your Web-enabled things it is not really worth having them Web-enabled in the first place! Core to the Web of Things vision there is this idea of the physical world as a “composable ecosystem” where devices can be used and re-used simply to create emerging applications, i.e. physical mashups. Well, the success of Web mashups is...

Web of Things is a Trend! 3,100

Products / Technology

7 Dec, 2009

Web of Things is a Trend!

Like it or not, the “Web of Things” first appeared last month on Google Trends. As a recap, Google Trends only shows trends for search terms (or combinations of terms) when the volume of single queries becomes interesting enough (i.e. big enough). Note that, of course, the trend for the “Web of Things” is not as big yet as the one from his mother “Internet of Thing”, but it is growing (IoT is in blue, WoT in red) This means that the popularity around WoT is growing and so is the hype. Let’s just makes sure it’s not only a...

Energie Visible: Live and Free! 4,639

Products / Research / Technology

3 Dec, 2009

Energie Visible: Live and Free!

After being asked by several members of WoT the community and beyond to release the Energie Visible prototype, we finally managed to find the time to package it and now give it for free on the Web! To recap: the Energie Visible project aims at making the your energy consumption … visible! We created a page to host the application, you’ll find the latest version and additional info there. Note that it currently only works with the Bluetooth Ploggs and on Windows (XP or later). The bundle you download there basically contains two applications. First is contains a Web of...

Fellow Researchers, let’s Unite! 3,058

Research

9 Nov, 2009

Fellow Researchers, let’s Unite!

This Sunday (15th of November) is the deadline for submitting to the first International Workshop on the Web of Things (WoT 2010). We would like to invite you to participate to this event by submitting a contribution about your current project(s) in that field. WoT 2010 is also a unique occasion to share experiences in the field as well as to bootstrap a Web of Things scientific community. Note that we also welcome demonstration papers reporting about your latest prototypes of things integrated to the Web or Web applications using sensor networks, embedded devices or real-world data. Looking forward to...

REST-*, oh my … They Dared! 1,407

Products / Research / Technology

24 Sep, 2009

REST-*, oh my … They Dared!

In an attempt to “standardize” REST a little more, Red Hat is launching an open alliance and community towards creating standards for RESTful Web Services (hem aren’t RESTful Web Services already implemented using some standards like… HTTP :-)) Of course this is of interest to our Web of Things community since we definitely foster the use of REST towards a architecture to integrate things to the Web (see paper and that whitepaper for instance). However it seems like the REST-* initiative is also generating a lot of unhappy people amongst the RESTians. One of the reason is that they fear...

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Research

12 Aug, 2009

Architecting the Web of Things @ WoT 2010

Dear all, As hinted a little while ago (see this post!) we are proud to officially announce the first International Workshop on the Web of Things. Following on the success of our workshop at Lift 2009 we decided a little while ago to organize a similar event but targeted a little more towards the scientific community. The idea of this workshop is to attract researchers and practitioners from both the web/web engineering field and the ubicomp/pervasive computing field. The motto of this first edition is “Architecting the Web of Things”, thus we are expecting contributions (papers) defining the basis of...

WOT’s Happening? 2,529

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3 Jul, 2009

WOT’s Happening?

Just a short post to say sorry about the 25 template changes today 🙂 We are currently completely lifting webofthings.com. Starting with an upgrade to the latest wordpress, a cleaning of the theme (less pink but still a little :-)), adding new contributors (Like Erik Wilde) and most importantly turning webofthings.com/net/org into a portal rather than only a blog! The goal being to incrementally include new services such as internal websites for the workshops we are organizing. So please do apologize the probable bugs and template changes during the coming few weeks!

Established in 2007, the Web of Things is a community of developers, researchers, and designers exploring the future of the physical Web. We want to leverage Web standards to interconnect all types of embedded devices and tagged products to make them easier to use and integrate in classic Web applications. WoT aims to build a future Web of devices that is truly open, flexible, and scalable, and we believe Web standards are the best way to do it.
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