I had a chance to play with a fun new social application today called Dinnerbuzz. The premise is simple: It’s a social network for people to find new places to eat – and to mark off the ones that they’ve already visited. I signed up and started testing it out. There’s only a handful of […]
Comment · Posted: July 1st, 2005
Using the new Google Maps API, I’ve started to add useful maps to the pages of ideaShrub.
Comment · Posted: June 29th, 2005
Google has just released an official Google Maps API. This is really big news. There have been dozens of really good Google Maps hacks in the past, and it’s good to see that it’s going to finally become ‘legit’. Update: If you’re a fan of Javascript, take a peek at the API documentation. Update 2: […]
Comment · Posted: June 29th, 2005
I downloaded the new version of iTunes today which came packaged with podcast support. I was skeptical, at first, so I popped open my Odeo subscription list and dragged one of the channel RSS feeds onto iTunes, wondering what would happen. Sure enough, it recognized the RSS feed, figured out all the enclosed content, and […]
Comment · Posted: June 28th, 2005
The results are in! My AniWiki project placed second in the Waxy Automated Wikipedia Contest. The first place entry was really smooth and nicely put together, but I was able to get some scraps based purely on technical development, which is cool. Although John Resig’s AniWiki entry had several innovations, Dan wins because of the […]
Comment · Posted: June 27th, 2005
Jon Udell just put up a screencast of Wikipedia Animate – one of the competing projects in the Animate Wikipedia competition. I also created a submission for the contest, and submitted, but perhaps too late (as the first two entries received the most recognition, and a winner still has yet to be announced). My entry […]
Comment · Posted: June 25th, 2005
This year’s Web 2.0 Conference sounds exciting. There are (potentially) many more applications to announce over last year. According to the announcement over at John Battelle’s Searchblog.
To that end, we’re adding few new elements to the event. Last year the “High Order Bit” was a hit – we had a dozen or so great presentations, […]
Comment · Posted: June 25th, 2005
Last week I was busy working on an Animated Wikipedia extension, to which one of the requirements was to add a visual ‘Diff’ from one page to another. So, I did some digging, read a paper, and implemented the algorithm in Javascript. So, if you’re interested in showing a visual diff, comparing two blocks of […]
Comment · Posted: June 24th, 2005
