November 17, 2007
The latest PicLens .xpi for Firefox is now downloadable from Mozilla. The flood of downloads (thanks to Firefox’s automatic updates for plugins) has already begun. I’m sure this will provide hours of entertainment for our server guys. To say they’re huddled around the file server console at this very moment watching the download […]
Tags: Firefox, PicLens
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November 12, 2007
When I returned from lunch today I learned that I’ve got a new boss! (sort of) Former U.S Vice President Al Gore has joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner. KPCB is the financial backer underwriting CoolIris, and therefore indirectly responsible for my paycheck.
So, does this mean a change of signage at […]
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November 6, 2007
We posted an update to the PicLens plugin for Firefox and Safari browsers last night, version 1.5.15.
The Firefox update fixes a handful of niggling buglets but otherwise no visible changes.
The Safari update gets PicLens working with Safari in the new Leopard release of OSX. The technique for loading a plugin into the Safari browser […]
Tags: Firefox, PicLens, Safari
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November 5, 2007
Although Google’s recently announced OpenSocial APIs are described as presenting a unified API for developers to tap into a variety of disparate social networks, the truth is the only unification is that the different vendors use a similar set of function verbs and response schemas.
OpenSocial is a pattern that a social network vendor can follow […]
Tags: Google, OpenSocial, Programming
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November 2, 2007
Here are a few observations from my first 10 minutes of surfing around in the Google OpenSocial API docs.
Google OpenSocial has two sets of APIs: JavaScript for web pages, and ATOM / REST style APIs for server apps or “installed client” (non-browser, presumably native code) apps.
The ATOM/REST APIs are collectively called the OpenSocial Data […]
Tags: Google, Microsoft, OpenSocial, Programming
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November 1, 2007
TechCrunch reports that Google is set to announce and reveal a new web API called OpenSocial today, Nov 1. This API is supposed to enable developers to build applications that can leverage an end user’s social network, but without requiring the developer to choose which of the many silo’d social networks to support.
The OpenSocial URL […]
Tags: Google, OpenSocial, Programming
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