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An Oasis of Calm in Terminal 1

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on July 4, 2005 Posted in London, Travel No Comments

I’ve been transiting through Heathrow regularly for about six years now, and for six years the most consistently high-quality food to be found is at the Seafood Bar cafĂ© annex to the Caviar House food shop. You wouldn’t expect to …

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The Design Festa

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on May 17, 2005 Posted in Kids, Travel No Comments

So on Sunday I went to something called the “Design Festa” at Tokyo Big Sight, an enormous expo center on the outskirts of the city. From what I understand, it’s a twice yearly event where hundreds of artists and designers …

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Mobile Web in Japan

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on May 15, 2005 Posted in Mobile Web, Travel 4 Comments

Some anecdotal evidence of the shape of the Mobile Web in Japan: An advertisement with multiple URLs on it, each for access over a different carrier Every content provider has to code their service or application multiple times for different …

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So Tokyo

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on May 12, 2005 Posted in Mobile Web, Travel, W3C No Comments

So here I am in Tokyo — for WWW2005 conference and the launch of the Mobile Web Initiative. My initial impression: Tokyo is like New York on steroids. More soon.

I Love Virgin Atlantic

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on November 26, 2004 Posted in Travel 3 Comments

They’re not only the best long-haul airline flying. They’re also really unfathomably cool and they have great customer service. As evidence, I submit the fact that even though my “gold” frequent flyer status had expired because I haven’t flown enough …

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Who is Daniel Appelquist?

I'm an immigrant and US/UK dual national who has been living in London since 1999. I'm an advocate for emerging web technologies, the open web, open source and open data. I am co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group. I was a founder and co-organizer of the Over the Air hack day series and of Mobile Monday London. I'm a former .com CTO. I'm currently working at Snyk, leading open source and open standards work.

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