Newsmap
I’ve been mentioning Newsmap to people lately so I thought I’d link to it here because it has a terrible URI and I always forget the name.
Google Reviews
So Google has done what hReview dreams of in the future, and they’ve done it without boiling the ocean and making everyone change their markup. If we all do million dollar markup we can enable multi-million dollar search startups to compete with billion dollar giants, with the obvious economic incentive for the hoi polloi being increased traffic from placement in the content aggregators.
Tagsonomy
I’m going to be following Tagsonomy the new group blog on tagging, which is built on WordPress. The tag experiments on the support forums have been going alright but I’d like to make the heat map more of a discovery mechanism, perhaps allowing time or random elements to weigh more heavily. 43 Things comes to mind. Any good code out there for this?
WordPress Python Library
A Python library for working with WordPress, English info further down on the page.
Gallery: 5-7-2005
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Blogger Mobile
Blogger Mobile launches, making moblogging so much easier. Very smart.
Now 200,000
Wow, 200,000. Okay, time for a new release. 🙂 We’re also trying to work with hosting providers doing auto-installs so those are counted better, right now just Dreamhost is counted.
Include Pages
The include page plugin lets you include the contents of any page in any place in your template. This could be used to create discrete sections of your page you manage through the posting interface, which I know a lot of people would like.
Jeff Minard Reboots
Jeff Minard redesigns for reboot and the site looks great. Everything you see there is powered by WordPress.
DivX Blog
The folks behind Divx are blogging using WordPress.
Dave 50
Dave Winer turns 50! A lot of the stuff I work on day-to-day would be very different if it wasn’t for Dave, so here’s to a very happy birthday. Your work is much appreciated. 🙂
Gallery: 5-1-2005
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Check-in Prize
Nokrev won the check-in prize for the Theme competition, sorry it was late!
Frustrating Amazon
Some days Amazon just drives me batty. Part of it may be the fact that I have 3 distinct accounts on Amazon, all with the exact same login, but which one I get depends on on what password I use when I log in. One of these accounts gives me the discount for using A9, the rest don’t. Depending on which one I logged into last, my A9 search history is hosed. The wishlists are in various states of upkeep, and all different. It’s confusing and frustrating and really turns me off from Amazon. I wish I could just delete all those accounts and start fresh. (If they let me export my wishlist first.)
How Flickr Was Made
Everybody I know loves Flickr and it’s one of the slickest web applications most of us have seen in a long time. I recently found out that Cal Henderson, the lead developer of Flickr from Ludicorp, is going to be giving a workshop called Building Enterprise Web Apps on a Budget – How We Built Flickr on June 20th here in San Francisco. It’s also fairly cheap for what you’re getting, so if you’re in the Bay area or can make it here for June 20th I’d highly recommend coming out, I’m planning on going myself. It’s put on by By Designers for Designers who also use WordPress.
Serenity Trailer
The new Serenity trailer looks amazing, I haven’t seen anything in theatres in a while but this looks worth it.
A Calendar Problem
So here’s the scenario: I have a work calendar on Outlook 2003 which gets all the work meetings. I use iCal on my Mac to keep a calendar with mostly personal events and it syncs via DAV online. I would love to combine all of these and sync them together and to some sort of web interface, and make all the events and alarms go to my phone, a Motorola RAZR. Is this even possible? Update: Groupcal looks like exactly what I need.
Bad Wiki
Tiger and Ping-O-Matic
Ping-O-Matic is built into Mac OS X Tiger Server coming out tomorrow (or in an update), now we just need to get into Windows. Scoble? 😉