I wrote about Yahoo Pipes previously and finally got around to playing with it. I ended up creating a very simple “pipe” which combines the RSS feeds from GigaOm, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Mashable. I call it GigaCrunchBeat, Mashable is implied.
I import this feed into one module on my start page instead of four, works [...]
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GigaCrunchBeat a Yahoo Pipe
Follow Bonds on your Mobile this Summer
Follow Barry Bonds on your mobile this summer as he marches towards the history book. I’ve setup a mobile alert using Mozes, just text “bonds” to 66937 and you’ll receive a text message after every Bonds home run. It’s kinda like twitter but with actual useful information and none of the annoyance. ;)
Or if you’re [...]
The Odds of a Perfect Bracket
It’s March Madness time again which means time to fill out the tournament brackets. So I’m sure we are all wondering what the odds are to pick a perfect bracket, all 64 games picked exactly right.
The straight odds calculations is relatively easy, for each 64 games you must pick the right outcome out of the [...]
Distributed Social Networks
As the NY Times article today shows, social networks are sprouting up everywhere. Small niche sites such as the Portland Trailblazers, BarackObama, Nike, and now Ning’s wicked service which allows anyone to build their own in just a few minutes. But how many of these disparate sites will someone want to join?
Does some one need [...]
Marked in Magnolia
I’ve started using Ma.gnolia for managing bookmarks, I like their Mini Ma.rker bookmarklet. It makes for a pretty nice way to bookmark, tag and add a brief description. I was thinking I could use Ma.gnolia as a way to share items similar to Facebook shares with the NY Times, but with Ma.gnolia I can do [...]
Yahoo Pipes…. whoa!
Pipes lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment
Yahoo just blew me away with their new Pipes service. Innovation is not dead at the purple Y! I’ve just read a little on it and touched the service, but this looks better than sliced bread. I need to check [...]
Goodbye XML, Hello JSON
About four years ago I wrote an article on the limitations of XML, I’m here to back that up with some numbers. All of the same issues apply to XML today as they did then. It is still a bloated format, still requires external libraries and still takes plenty of code to parse.
Our search [...]
Inside MySpace - technology and scalability
Baseline magazine has a good article on Inside MySpace. The article discusses the technical issues MySpace has had to deal with growing to 140 million users. If you are interested in technology, scalability and large site architecture, definitely check it out.
It is interesting to read about all of the account milestones they reached and the [...]
Computers, we have a long way to go
After trying to remember the HTML character code for the fancy quote mark for the 1,00th time, I realized we have a long way to go with interactions with computers. I’m not talking just pretty GUI’s and simple keyboard and mouse interfaces but the whole HCI gambit; computers are supposed to be smart and make [...]
VMware + Mac = Fusion
VMware Fusion. Lost amongst all this iPhone hype is what looks like a cool new product from VMware offering virtualization on Mac OS X. boo ya! I talked with the lead developer from VMware at a dinner party a few months back, who told me that they were doing some pretty exciting stuff with [...]