Tweet The Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations. The Google Visualization API also provides a platform that can be used to create, share and reuse visualizations written by the developer community. You can embed visualizations directly into your website [...]
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Tweet Google added another interesting piece to its API stack. Now with the Google AJAX Language API, you can translate and detect the language of blocks of text within a webpage using only Javascript. The language API is designed to be used to translate and detect languages on the fly when off line translations are [...]
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Tweet I just got a new levovo Laptop. It was presetup with Windows XP. It took me 30 minutes flat to setup completely for my needs. Installed my web development environment. Installed my database development environment. Installed Windows Live Messenger, and Yahoo Messenger. Installed Firefox. Done, everything else I do is web-based. All my email, [...]
Tweet LinkedIn just announced they are offering that, “Now Companies too have profiles on LinkedIn”. I have always used LinkedIn as a business facing presence for myself. It has linkages for all my employees? Now, you’ll be able to see over 160,000 profiles of companies on LinkedIn, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to non-profit organizations [...]
Tweet I was just driving home tonight and thinking about all the widgets and OpenSocial applications I have been developing lately. Starting thinking about the limited distribution OpenSocial Applications and the wide distribution of widgets. I was playing with a real sweet Flash Distribution that was driven from XML. I was thinking about the different [...]
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Tweet Amazon added another layer to their stack of web services to. They added the Amazon Fulfillment Web Service (Amazon FWS) which allows merchants to tap in to Amazon’s network of fulfillment centers and logistics. Merchants can store their own products to our fulfillment centers and then, using a web service interface, fulfill orders for [...]
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Tweet I use Google Reader and Google Notebook on a daily basis. I read and consume feeds from 300+ blogs daily. I scan, read, visit and participate in many of the posts. I then either tag the blog entries in my Google Reader. Or I visit the blog and highlight some or all of the [...]
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Tweet I have been using Jott for that last few months to record tasks, record events, publish blogs, and other general communications by calling Jott and leaving a voice mail or “jott” and it translates and sends to the link that I dictate. I am pioneering using this for live blogging of events and sending [...]
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Tweet I enjoy taking pictures of anything and everything. I am always curious about the legal rights of taking pictures of people and places. I just read a great post called Photography and The Law: Know Your Rights which contained the The Ten Legal Commandments of Photography. It has great information about some common misconceptions [...]
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Tweet Google released a new update for the Google Chart API. It allows you to create maps with specific data areas based upon what you pass. You can highlight states, countries and other elements and display summary or other data regarding those elements. A nice feature added to the API. The have a lot of [...]
Tweet So I have several spurts in trying to understand, track, and ultimately evolve my social graph and my social index. For anyone not following these areas of study, here are some definitions: Social Graph Definition: Social Graph is the network of connections that exist through which people communicate and share information. Social Index Definition [...]
Tweet So recently I have installed 2 Adobe Air applications. I installed twhirl a twitter client built on the Air platform, and now I just did Snippely a snippet code tool from MooTools. I really like the install process which is very smooth and makes installing new apps so easy. I really like the application [...]
Tweet Was just reading a cool post about Flash Mobs on Ignite Media. Very cool concept. Is it social media? Is it art? Is it protest? Ignite Media defines a flash mob as: You gather a group of people (through text messages, Facebook groups, emails, whatever) and ask them to come to a particular place [...]
Tweet I wrote earlier about Youtube’s new API. I am really happy they updated it. It has several features that I feel are key to using their platform. However in thinking more about it and reading other posts about it I realize their approach and openness is the real gem. Youtube understands the basic 2.0 [...]
Tweet Youtube finally has reworked their API to allow for uploading of videos. This was a huge problem in integrating YouTube in Social Media Campaigns. Here are some of the things you can do with the YouTube Data API now: Create a web front end to let people view videos about specific topics. Create a [...]
Tweet Just got a request to install WordPress blog for a client that will potentially receive a large amount of traffic. So I opted to use the Mosso.com Cloud Hosting Platform by Rackspace. Took me less than 10 minutes to setup the site, install, and configure the WordPress blog. In my Mosso.com admin interface and [...]
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Tweet I have bee spending the week finding many types of RSS feeds for different purposes. I am building large lists of them under different topics and tracking the source of these feeds. I am noticing about 1 in 10 feeds are using Feedburner or any type of tracking for it. Though I am happier [...]
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Tweet Was just watching and enjoying a show of Charlie Rose that had Chris Anderson of Wired and Michael Arrington of TechCrunch. Chris was very informative and I’ll have to watch again. Michael Arrington was impressive. He covered tech as social issues in a way that kept me listening. Will write more about. Good show [...]
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Tweet Was just checking out Guy Kawasaki’s latest project Alltop. The site layout instantly sucked me in. Couldn’t get past the grey bar layer at first. Actually after i got over it….it forced me to really focus on the content…..interesting approach. The sites that are already in my sights within the categories I care about [...]
Tweet I was checking out Yahoo’s new release, Fire Eagle. It is a secure and stylish way to share your location with sites and services online while giving you control over your data and privacy. Applications and users can respond to your location and help you to discover more about the world around you in [...]
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