As I mentioned yesterday Microsoft Data Explorer Preview for Excel has hit the streets and one new feature is a built-in adapter for talking to the Facebook Graph API: I’ve been taking it for a spin for today and was quite interested in its capabilities. Even without landing any data into Excel this is still a handy interactive Facebook graph ...

A couple of months back I wrote a blog post entitled Microsoft, OData and RDF where I gave a high level view of the OData protocol and how it compares to RDF. I talked about linked data, triples and such like which may have been somewhat useful however jargon-heavy. Earlier today Dr Michael Hausenblas (blog | twitter) offered an analogy which I ...

Earlier today Chris Webb posted a blog entry entitled OData and Microsoft BI where he remarked upon the increasing importance of Microsoft’s burgeoning OData protocol for accessing data over HTTP. Chris also linked to Douglas Purdy’s blog post OData: The Movie which listed the following Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies that support (or ...