Welcome

The Useful Information Company provides training, consulting and software for the web and open source industries. It is led by Edd Dumbill.

What we do

Our areas of expertise include web publishing, Ruby on Rails, XML, the semantic web, and Linux. Activities include the organization of the XTech series of conferences; free and open source software development; consulting, and writing and speaking. Our main product is Expectnation, a web-based tool for organizing conferences, training and similar events.

Free software

• DOAP: decentralized open source project description.
• Daily Chump: create a group weblog from IRC chat.
• FOAFbot: community support IRC bot.

Some of our sites

• Expectnation: online event organization software.
• XTech: Europe's leading web technology conference.
• Planet XMLhack: aggregated XML community weblogs.
• Make A Shorter Link: URL shortening service.