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
43 Places is a new service from The Robot Co-Op (the makers of 43 Things). I received an inital invitation from Josh around the beginning of June and I immediately began playing with it. My first instinct was to blog about this new service, however they mentioned in their invitation, expressly, not to: At this […]
Comment · Posted: June 23rd, 2005
One thing that I’ve been looking to do, lately, is to create a Screencast (much like the ones presented by Jon Udell). I went through all the dirty work, trying to find a way to do it that was completely free – no strings attached. The result is usable (albeit, without audio or a mouse […]
Comment · Posted: June 17th, 2005
