One ‘movement that I’ve been keenly watching is the growth of Microformats, embedding reusable data nuggets into the XHTML of a web page that both users, and applications, can understand. A new format that seems to making a rise deals with embedding geographical information into a web page. Attaching a Geographical location to a virtual […]
Comment · Posted: July 9th, 2005
Included in the new release of Apple OS X, Tiger, is a simple command-line application that can be used to convert one document format, to another. Think of it as Image Magick, only for text documents. This is an amazingly useful feature. You can convert to/from any number of these format: txt, html, rtf, rtfd, […]
Comment · Posted: July 8th, 2005
There has been one data source that I’ve been looking for, for at least a couple months now: Historical Weather Data. I would’ve thought that this data would be out in the open and readily available, but I have been unable to locate any reliable source which provides this. It wasn’t until last week, when […]
Comment · Posted: July 7th, 2005
Just a quick note to people who want me to publicize their web site on my web log: I will review your web site, however, please be warned that I may: Completely ignore your request, if it is poorly written. Actually use your service before reviewing it. Provide an objective (potentially negative!) review of your […]
Comment · Posted: July 7th, 2005
Jobazaar is a new take on combining tagging with auction-style job sites. The premise for the site is that an employer makes a post offering up a job, prospect employees join and post their bid onto the job. This is all virtually identical to a number of other job-bid websites – a popular one being […]
Comment · Posted: July 6th, 2005
I came across a blog this evening, disturbingly named Idea Sling. (Disturbingly due to the similarity in name to my current project: ideaShrub) I was very concerned that this web site was, somehow, going to be in direct competition with my work, however that does not seem to be the case. In a nutshell: The […]
Comment · Posted: July 2nd, 2005
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
