Search Results: "george oates"

May 25, 2011

Stop Press for May 24th

No New Normal – The Value Web Seriously good stuff from Eoin Purcell. Go read: disintermediation, and why the chain isn't going to be repopulated, it's going to be reconfigured. The search for a minimum viable record – O’Reilly Radar Open Library's George Oates on the pursuit of concise categorization. Old, Weird Tech: The Penguincubator, […]

July 7, 2009

Flickr + OpenLibrary = Bookdata goodness

As we noted some months ago, George Oates, former designer and more at Flickr, probably the best designed site on the web, moved to the OpenLibrary. And now this exciting move has borne some fascinating fruit: OpenLibrary Machine Tags on Flickr. Stick with us. Machine tags are machine-readable versions of the ubiquitous tag system that […]

April 28, 2009

Stop Press for April 27th

kewlchops: A new leaf. quot;I#039;m very excited about my first day at work tomorrow in my new job at the Internet Archive, here in San Francisco, in the beautiful Presidio. I#039;ll be heading up the Open Library project.quot; George Oates, ex-Flickr. Good good good. The Book Oven: Gutenberg Rally. The Book Oven, currently in private […]