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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
The videos are coming out as are the slides for the Google I/O sessions. It is pretty cool that they are making some of the full presentations available.
I was going to be discussing Android today, but instead you can just watch the sessions themselves. Here is “An Introduction to Android” to get you started.
To see [...]
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
WidgetWebExpo is coming up, but don’t just go there because you want to see me, there are other people too :) …
Look for speakers from comScore and Forrester Research, as well as from Nokia, Motorola, Gigya, Clearspring, Sprout (my Hawaiian neighbors), MediaForge and more.
And let’s not forget widgets are like a start-up candyland, so naturally there are a few venture [...]
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Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Google Apps Engine
Some quick answers to what Google Apps Engine offers, and why you might want to care about it.
A few months ago, Joyent (and Dell, and Facebook) announced free hosting (for a year) to budding application developers. These free servers were designed to scale and help developers who had applications which “took off” in [...]
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
There was so much put out at Google I/O that it will likely take a while to discuss all my notes on it.
On the Google gadget front I learned an interesting thing (and also got a sweet Google code tshirt) at the visualization desk….
There is a Google visualization gadget directory. Neato.
Also there has been extensive additions [...]
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
By some miracle I was awake when this conference began at 8AM (ouch), and I was impressed by the keynote. I am happy I made it to see it, I was thinking of skipping it.
Keynote Speech
The keynote, as I said was pretty good. In it, Google products were highlighted, but the real crowd pleaser was when [...]
Posted in Facebook Applications, Google I/O, How to make Google gadgets, Microsoft, Open Social, Web Slices, events, google, google gadgets, iGoogle, search community, webdev, widgets, yahoo | Comments Off
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
I will be in San Francisco tomorrow for Google I/O. I know I will like it already because they have asked me for my t-shirt size
Any goings on over the next couple of days in San Fran? (I will go to the Google party on the 28th, but other than that…). I am [...]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
I am in the San Jose area for today’s SearchMonkey launch party. It will be at Yahoo! headquarters and it looks like it will be interesting.
What is Search Monkey?
In a way, it is Yahoo’s take on gadgets within search results… sorta. The example they use at their SearchMonkey site is a movie website that has a [...]
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Hi, this is just an open letter to Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask spam teams.
I will be speaking in depth about SEO and widgets at a couple of upcoming conferences and highlighting some of the more “dangerous” behaviors that can lead to spam trouble within widgets.
I have sent an email to Matt Cutts and I hope he sees it [...]
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Affiliate programs often do not have many of the basic functionalities that I like to see that help me use them in gadgets.
I was surprised when I saw what Superpages was offering for their affiliate system.
SuperPages is a local search company and they have a simple and innovative system to distribute their services. It is [...]
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Google just released the API for the street view functionality of maps.
I made this example Google gadget that uses the new API that displays a few historic landmarks in Philadelphia to illustrate some of the gadget potential…
The gadget takes advantage of the “simple street view panorama” example provided with the API release. There are several [...]
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