I’m at SXSW, and I want an ability to see the latest Tweets from the group of Twitterers that I follow who are here in the area. I also have a limited number of text messages on my phone (1500, but still).
I coded up a quick app that allows you to great a group of [...]
Twitter rocks. It’s useful for all kinds of things, but especially for chronicling a live event as it happens, including the pre-event discussion and post-conference wrapup.
We’re very excited to be hosting NewB Camp here in Providence, RI on February 23rd. In preparation for the event, Sara created a NewBCamp Twitter account and I coded up [...]
I love to play with and talk about web applications, especially anything new and exciting (have invites to something? send them here!). A few people have asked me lately which web apps I actually use, and why I stick with them. Here are the apps that I use every day:
Google Reader - My current RSS [...]
While we’ve all been waiting for HTML-on-a-prim, the talented Katharine Berry has begun work on AjaxLife, a browser-based Second Life client. At the moment, it doesn’t do much more than log your avatar in, but I’m quite excited by the potential.
Facebook’s platform isn’t as open as I’d been led to believe. They are apparently turning down librarian’s applications to create library catalog search tools that integrate with the site. This reinforces that we really need open, neutral standards!
Pownce is the kind of name that makes you want to jump up and down on things. It’s [...]
I remember a spirited debate in one of my senior-level web programming courses this past spring on the Ultimate Web Application. It would be a meta-application that sat on top of other web applications, with all of the functionality of every other program. Most importantly, it would allow a user to have a unified identity [...]
There’s been a lot of interest lately in search engines designed to help you find information about people. This is a service that Google hasn’t done a great job of providing. You can always throw someone’s name in the Google search box, but if there are multiple mentions of that person online, they’ll be all [...]
I’ve done several workshops this year on using technical tools in the classroom. It often seems like problems that have been solved for years - like coordinating events or committee work (painfully ineffective through e-mail) - keep going unsolved because the technology to solve them is inaccessible to the people that most need it.
This [...]
I’ve been recommending that people planning a visit to an unfamiliar location search for photos in flickr ever since I saw Gridskipper’s Flickr Guide to the Planet over two years ago.
It occurred to me this morning that if we can so easily travel through space, why can’t we travel through time? And then space and [...]
I often hear from designers and client-side developers who are interested in adding more dynamic content to their sites, but have not yet learned server-side coding skills. That’s why I think that apps like Instacomment fill an important niche! With Instacomment, you put a PHP file on your site and a JavaScript snippet in your [...]