Category Archives: Web development

MySpace switching to .Net

MySpace, a popular online social networking and blogging site with nearly 20 million users, is moving from ColdFusion to .Net. MySpace received over 7.5 billion page views from 15.5 million unique visitors in May according to comScore. Looks like the site will continue to use its CFML code as native .Net web applications. Seems like a big win for Microsoft! Tags: cfml, coldfusion, dotnet…

Grokker visualizes Yahoo! Search using Java applet

Groxis, a data visualization company, converted its Grokker desktop software to a Java applet and is demonstrating the ability of its software using Yahoo! search results and advertisements. I tested it out with an ego search of course. I am able to see generalizations of how Yahoo! search users might view me based on the size of circles. You can adjust the starting date and number of search results through the tools on the bottom of your screen. Overall a very clever way to show off what Grokker’s technology can do for other data sets.Technorati Tags: grokker…

Stewart Butterfield interview on Flickr

Richard Koman interviewed Stewart Butterfield of Flickr about how people use Flickr through the site, APIs, and how Flickr will make a business out of photo sharing. Flickr has 3.5 million photos, 82 percent are public. 71 percent of the photos have some kind of human-added metadata that was added in Flickr….

TiVo Home Media Engine SDK

TiVo released a Java SDK for their broadband-connected Series2 DVRs. There is already a RSS reader for the TiVo. James Gosling will judge your Java code in the TiVo Developer Challenge with prizes such as a Segway and other gadgets….

Amazon DevCon

Amazon is hosting DevCon this week for its software development team. If you could like to join the developer chat you may have a chance to ask questions of Guido van Rossum and other speakers on today’s schedule. The web services team plans to post video and possibly audio, but the summaries are an interesting enough read regardless. Some excerpts: Joel Spolsky: “[P]eople won’t understand where their emotional reactions are coming from. Use this info in real life. Do same thing with software, put people in control, good emotional response, good physical feel, remind them of mom. Make it pretty,…

Technorati cosmos within NetNewsWire

I wrote an AppleScript for NetNewsWire that allows a user to subscribe to the Technorati cosmos for any individual item within NetNewsWire. Users now have a quick and easy way of staying informed about the latest information related to items of interest from the convenience of NetNewsWire. You do not even have to be online to subscribe to the cosmos! This code is the second AppleScript I have ever written — the first was to export my feeds as OPML and FTP the to my server. I almost did not submit it to the Technorati developers’ contest but I won…

Attention.xml export for NetNewsWire

Attention.xml is an open standard to track attention metadata such as what you read and what you would like to learn more about. So far there has been a lot of talk around the idea and what it could mean for synchronization, resource discovery, and social networking. Technorati and Steve Gillmor have talked about the idea but there has been no implementation to show how you could use this open format with existing applications such as web browsers and feed aggregators to make sense out of your daily activity. Until now. I wrote an AppleScript that exports all of your…