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Notelets for 2008.05.20

AIM announces winners of the Open AIM Developer Challenge. Some coverage: AOL Announces Open AIM Dev Contest Winners – ReadWriteWeb AOL gives out $100,000 in prizes to AIM plugin coders – Download Squad OUseful Info: An OpenLibrary API Handshake With Yahoo Pipes cf my PW post (Open Library API: Cataloging 13 Million Books) BTW, I […]

Notelets for 2007.09.25

I was going to try Google Presentation, the new Powerpoint-like subsystem of Google Docs, until I learned that it doesn't export presentations to Powerpoint or OpenDocument. (See Can I download a presentation to my local computer?.) Now, I might create my PPT or OpenDocument presentation and then upload it to see how good the importing […]

Notelets for 2007.03.15

For a long time, the Firebug extension would not display any CSS info. I fixed that problem last week: the bug the fix I'm glad that Flickr has introduced Collections. (See my collections, for instance.) Pieces of the API are coming: Flickr Services: Flickr API: flickr.collections.getInfo — but it's not all there yet. ( yws-flickr […]

Notelets for 2007.02.19

I may have to get in the business of parsing Excel spreadsheets, making use of information I find at OpenOffice.org's Documentation of the Microsoft Excel File Format Excel Versions 2, 3, 4, 5, 95, 97, 2000, XP, 2003 and sc: Spreadsheet Project — Microsoft Excel – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia QEDWiki is ready to try. […]

Notelets for 2007.01.15

Is there enough mashup-related activity at the Web 2.0 Expo 2007, April 15-18, 2007, San Francisco, California to justify the expense and time to attend? Haas School News Release is an interesting article on how people buy and sell user reviews on eBay. No surprise there. REST Web Services, a forthcoming book by Leonard Richardson […]