It's tempting to enter an idea into the Amazon.com: Startup Challenge. Alas I don't have enough time to flesh the idea sufficiently to become a serious contender. I've long wanted to pull together some deep personal computational infrastructure by combining S3 and EC2 and SQS — but writing up those ideas will have to wait.
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 […]
For the second draft of Chapters 6 and 7, I've been writing up a section on working with SOAP. I knew that it might be complicated to explain but I had no idea that it would be so difficult to distill the subject down to clear rules of thumbs that really work. I need to […]
For your reading pleasure…. Chapter 3: "Tagging and Folksonomies." (2007-08-08) Chapter 4: "Feeds, RSS and Atom" (2007-08-08) Chapter 5: "Remixing Weblogs" (2007-08-08)
I will writing my notes here from Mashup Camp IV, where I hope to see many of the people I've been corresponding with and writing about over the last months.
For your reading pleasure, I just posted the second draft of Chapter 2 ("Uncovering the Mashup Potential of Websites"). It is a thoroughly rewritten version of the first draft, a much deeper piece of work. It did take me a lot of rethinking to get this 39 page chapter in order — but I think […]
Please let me know whether you have any comments on the following chapters: Chapter 18 " XML, RDF, microformats" (2007-06-20 12:11:02) Chapter 19: "Search" (2007-06-20 17:35:58)
I just posted the following chapters — for your edication and entertainment: Chapter 7: "Other XML Web Services APIs" (2007-06-09 13:38:24) Chapter 9: "Dissecting mashups and remixes" (2007-06-09 13:49:43) Chapter 13: "Online Maps and 3-D Digital Globes" (2007-06-07 15:44:19) Chapter 17:"Desktop and Web-Based Office Suites" (2007-06-07 15:24:53) As always, I'd be grateful for any constructive […]
With pointers such as Greg Sadetsky's tidbits on how Google Map's Street View works in the browser (e.g., URLs of specific shots, a pointer to a Flare, an Actionscript decompiler), how long will we have to wait until we get mashups that give us a video tour of Berkeley using photos from Street View?
The online mapping arena is changing so quickly, and I obviously am not able to cover the details of all these changes. Nonetheless, it's helpful to speculate on what I believe to be the long-term trends in this area as a way of priming yourself for future changes. I think that you'll see a migration […]