Tag Archives: web20

Improving my Delicious command for Ubiquity

After writing up my first stab at a Delicious command for Ubiquity, I planned to continue revising it based on feedback and to work on exploring more of what Ubiquity enables. I started looking into writing my own nouns for tag suggestions, as well as playing with page load and browser startup hooks. [...]

Outsourcing creativity via APIs

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 [...]

Twitter’s Mojo Bubble

Michael Gartenberg: “First, it’s another queue to check. … It looks like I could add Twitter into the flow of RSS feeds but do I really want to do that?“ No, you don’t want to do that. If you’re “checking your Twitter queue” - you’re doing it wrong. You should be using something like Twitteriffic or [...]

bookmarking outlier

I’ve amassed 9681 bookmarks on del.icio.us as of right now. Quick napkin calculation: I post an average of 7 bookmarks a day, over my lifetime of 1353 days using the site. Within the next 45 days or so, I should reach 10000 bookmarks at this rate. I wonder if I should [...]

Invites to the delicious preview

Update: Oh! And since even I missed this link in the original blog post, you can request to be invited. Not sure if that results in an email, either, though. Update #2: Also, we’re trying out Vanilla forums as an alternative to the delicious mailing list. If you’re invited to the preview, [...]

optimized for thumbnailing

Now that del.icio.us has made steps into the list of social bookmarking sites that render thumbnails of sites, it suddenly occurs to me: Will Web 3.0 sites be optimized for thumbnailing?

FeedMagick gains an RSS-to-JSON filter

So, I put some more infrastructure behind FeedMagick and lifted a RSS-to-JSON idea from John Resig to transform from MagpieRSS parsing to JSON output. Here’s a spiffy JSON-enriched demo. It was surprisingly easy, all told. I’m not sure how much time I’ll have to really put into this project, but this is the first [...]

Working on a Tripkodoo business plan tonight

Your company name:TripkodooYour company product:opml-based collaborative document editing via microformats Oh, hell. It looks like Web Two Point Oh! has nailed me on one of my stewing projects, Micronian. Sorta. Minus the OPML, really. Though, hey, Tripkodoo sounds like a cool name…