Web 2.0
Give Up and Use Tables
Saturday, January 24th, 2009(If you don’t write HTML, you can skip this post. It doesn’t concern you and will just confuse you. Basically: there’s a weird bunch of people who want to avoid a particularly useful way to lay out a web page just because they hold to this notion that “tables are for data”, and the fact [...]
Oh the pressure!
Friday, July 4th, 2008Today I played a CD on my computer. “Wow, big deal”, I hear you say. Everyone does that right? So what made today special?
I noticed today that when I play something (anything) in Amarok, it updates my Last.fm account that I listened. So if you go to my last.fm profile, you’ll see what I listened [...]
RSII: An update
Saturday, December 8th, 2007Back on November 7th, I wrote about RSII: Reverse Signatures for Insecure Identification. Since then I’ve discovered http://www.gravatar.com/. It basically implements RSII where your email address is the key and without the theorizing I’ve given to the concept.
My RSII avatar is now also my gravatar, and it’s let me add my other email addresses to [...]
RSII: Reverse Signatures for Insecure Identification
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007It occurred to me the other day that I use the same avatar for all my ‘presences’ online: Jaiku, Orkut, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter (back when I used it) and anywhere else that offers the ability to upload an avatar. That’s it there on the left.
I like to call that avatar an RSII: Reverse Signatures for [...]
Slidecast of the day!
Sunday, October 28th, 2007The question comes up over on Jaiku every week or so: How do you get a feed that only contains your Jaikus and doesn’t contain external feeds? I keep answering, “Use Yahoo! Pipes.” However that was just theory. Pipes is designed to manipulate, aggregate and filter feeds, but I’d never used it.
So when it was [...]
Why would Google buy Jaiku?
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007I’m very active in the Jaiku third-party developer arena: Tonight I’m giving a talk to my local Perl Mongers on the perl library I wrote and showing off the concept of microblogging as a development tool. Thus, the news that Jaiku had been bought by Google initially made me very happy. Being bought by [...]
Dumped by Web 2.0?
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007Dear Agony Aunt,
I logged onto Facebook this morning and my girlfriend’s status has changed from ‘Boyfriend’ to ‘Single’, so I checked my Jaiku followers and she’s not following my updates any more.
OK, so I just made that up, but if web2.0 is how we’re all communicating now (broadcasting rather than narrowcasting) I think it’s [...]
Jaiku Wordpress Plugin Released
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007I just wrote a plugin for Wordpress that sends the title and a (shortened) link to the post directly to Jaiku. You can download it from here for now. Give me feedback. Once everything seems to work OK, I’ll look at officially publishing it.
Rename the file to jaiku.php and place it in your wp-content/plugins directory.
Go [...]
Sausage damnit!
Friday, September 21st, 2007The term ‘bacn’ was coined by the folks at PodCamp Pittsburgh and is on the rise as a term for email that isn’t spam, but it isn’t ham. PodCamp considers email notifications from Facebook, Jaiku, Flickr, etc. to be ‘bacn’. You want to get the notificiations so it isn’t spam. But then, the messages aren’t [...]