Archive for May, 2008
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
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Yahoo geocode API, get XMl or JSON data about places.
Resolves a place name to a 32-bit unique identifier. Includes hierarchal inheritance, neighbor bounds.
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Online parser to XML, JSON or JSON-P. Indicate the microformats you want to extract selectively. Source code available at http://code.google.com/p/mf-optimus/
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EFF tips (on blogging anounymously, especially as an employee)
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Another slide + video sync tool, nice layout, commenting functionality.
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“Mix video with the web”:
Combine video with text, flash, polls, files, slides, pictures, rss…
(was unable to sign up… signups have to be approved ?!)
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
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Temporarily Unfollow people On Twitter, e.g. when they’re at a conference.
The app needs your username+password and uses the Twitter api to unfollow and then follow again.
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Self-hosted comment tracking (like CoComment, co.mments etc.)
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service simplifying regular upload/publishing activities:
* Publishing content to multiple Web locations;
* Combining different media into a single blog post or article;
* Transforming documents on-the-fly;
* Managing repeatable upload actions.
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Appengine project to request sites to openID-enable.
You sign with your OpenID of course!
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Flash Widget for embedding Flickr slideshows. Easy to use and set up - popular on blogs. Flash widget hosted by 3d party.
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
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“format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The API allows a website to display embedded content when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly”
By Flickr, Pownce and Viddler.
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Search syntax to restrict query:
genre:animation
genre:comedy
genre:documentary
genre:educational
genre:gaming
genre:movie_feature
genre:music
genre:sports
genre:tv_show
Examples of searches:
ufo genre:documentary
charlie chaplin genre:movie_feature
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Google Reader records some of your actions without providing options in the interface to access the data. Some addresses where you can find historical data about the items you’ve subscribed to (click on “View all items” to see all the posts).
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bookmarklet that finds the feed for a post and creates a different URL that tells Google Reader to search for the page’s title in that feed. Hopefully, the first result is the page you want to share.
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
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Firebug for Opera, still in alpha at this moment
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Proof of Concept Wordpress plugin publishing updates to an XMPP pubsub node
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“Exceptional Performance team evangelizes best practices for improving web performance. They conduct research, build tools, write articles and blogs, and speak at conferences. Their best practices center around the rules for high performance web sites.”
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Yet another Twitter search - cfr Tweetscan.com and Terraminds
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Techniques of importing JQuery into Greasemonkey scripts:
1 Site uses it
2 Import from remote host
3 Embed in your script
(also has links to valuable Jquery resources)
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JQuery documentation, in handy drill-down navigation
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SEO Firefox extension - checks your ranking for specifict keywords on Google, Yahoo, MSN.
Exports to CSV.
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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Tutorial on various concepts around version control and Subversion specifically
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“Proposal for a mechanism for subscribing to content change notifications in a generic and standardized way, using XRDS for service description”
Next to XMPP (cfr Ralph Meyer’s Idavoll), it also has subscription via a web hook (message receiving endpoint)
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2 purposes:
- define some of the terms and concepts behind basic cryptographic methods
- compare the myriad cryptographic schemes in use
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BBC gives attention to 3d party app access to your profile info without you knowing cfr ZDNet story earlier this year http://snurl.com/27jcc . Includes advice to change settings: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7376547.stm
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Convert YouTube and other online videos to MP3 files.
would have to see whether I can convert it into a bookmarklet/Greasemonkey script to fetch the resulting mp3 url more easily…
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“how would a universal “location layer for the social web” change the design and implementation of existing applications?”
(by Chris Messina)
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“Firefox extension to make life easier for Firefox extension developers. Testing JavaScript code, prototyping XUL layouts, and building XPI packages are all made easier by this extension.”
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Simple and little-known - I used this for a simple site for my colleague: http://latemscreatief.be (hosted on Wordpress.com BTW)
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Customize the login screen, header and footer of the Wordpress Admin
(to impress customers)
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“gives you full control of your Wordpress administration section, without requiring any changes to any files! All customizations are done using a very intuitive graphical interface.”
With a nice screencast.
Again: to impress clients…
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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Fred Stutzman argues that Twitter is all about the community, the user experience, not about the protocol. I counterargue that that community doesn’t depend on the Twitter service and that the UX is different for every user anyway.
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Social graph visualisation of Twitter to see mutual friends, up to 100 people
“Find out which of your Twitter friends know each other!”
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Wordpress plugin offering deployment of multiple contact forms throughout your blog or even on the same page. The form submission utilizes AJAX, falls back, however, to a standard method in case AJAX/Javascript is not supported or disabled.
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(planned) registry of service types used in XRDS documents
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“Making a new AMI is time consuming and requires significant temporary storage space and CPU cycles. This article shows you how updating your AMIs’ content at startup from Amazon S3 is a cost-effective way to maintain web sites and other services.”
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
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J2me-based chat + voip client for your mobile.
“Free mobile IM, texts, voice messages, file sharing and cheap international calls (free VoIP coming soon!)”
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J2ME-based web browser for mobile phones, but also for smartphones and personal digital assistants.
By Opera.com, obviously.
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
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Checks the user-agent and produces a mobile version of your blog when accessed with a phone browser
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Mobile advertising broker.
Apparently funded by Sequoia.
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I think I subscribed som 4 years ago because Edd Dumbill was one of xml goeroes (and the author of an early php libraray back then).
Nowadays, the blog is more a personal status update, so no longer interesting for me…
(exrss tag = RSS unsubscription)
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
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