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Ubiquity cracks open personal mashup tinkering

August 31, 2008 – 12:07 am

When I was a wee hacker, I lived my digital life though a Commodore 64. I played games on it, did homework, talked to people far away—you know, all the stuff they showed in the pictures on the box. I also took things apart—both the machine itself and software running on it. [...]

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Outsourcing creativity via APIs

November 1, 2007 – 2:17 pm

Tim Faulkner at Valleywag: “I blame Twitter. It’s not enough to be a website anymore. Oh no. You must be a platform. Have an API. Court developers. Build an “ecosystem.” Whatever. You know what an application programming interface really is? An admission that you’re too poor, cheap, or uncreative to build all the features your [...]

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Thoughts on Pipes on the Web – Part II

February 15, 2007 – 3:49 am

In the last post, I expressed concern for my own well-being over a lack of head-over-heels love for Yahoo! Pipes. On the surface, I think it’s because it’s not a freshly discovered concept for me, and also probably because I’m tired and a bit hacked out right now. But, I think there’s a [...]

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Thoughts on Pipes on the Web

February 15, 2007 – 3:09 am

By way of my meme tracker, I found something like 15 entries linking to Yahoo! Pipes from my feed subscriptions. That’s crazy — I’ve usually never seen more than 3-5 feeds linking to anyone thing, maybe as many as 8 if it’s something really hot. I read about it over morning coffee and [...]

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throttling the basement hacker

October 13, 2006 – 3:19 pm

This might just be a phase, related to my recent injury and subsequent period of convalescence – but I feel like doing absolutely nothing extracurricular hack-wise after work. This is an odd state of mind for me, since I’m normally never happy unless I’ve got both work and home projects spinning. It’s been [...]

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