web things
The GoDaddy Experience
wreck below the cliffs lands end by lovestruck
Over the last couple of years I’ve been migrating my domains away from GoDaddy because they’ve received quite a bit of negative press relating to poor customer service and arbitrary site takedowns. There are still a handful of domains that I have with GoDaddy though, and yesterday [...]
Data Portability Red Herrings
I think what’s interesting about the whole scoble facebook, plaxo issue is that it shows how much of a red herring the idea of data portability is when applied to the social graph. Of course you want to be able to take your data and move it to another provider, but when ‘your’ data [...]
Excuse me while I adjust my tinfoil hat
I can’t tell if this is just a weird coincidence, or if facebook is somehow censoring anti-facebook items that appear in people’s news feeds. Here’s how my recent tweets look on twitter:
Note the one in the middle.
And here’s how they look via the twitter app in facebook:
Defang Facebook
I’ve been enjoying using Facebook, but the new advertising system, beacon, which essentially follows you as you surf and inserts things that you’re doing into you fb activity stream, is a brutal invasion of privacy. I know I can choose not to show these things, but I’m more concerned at the fact that facebook [...]
Links for Monday 29 May 2006
Gabbly: “Gabbly is a chat service that allows you to chat around any webpage. ItÂ’s free to use on your personal page or commercial webpage.”
The Nine Minute Waxy Widget. Using Dashcode.
How to backup your mac intelligently. Great food for thought about your backup strategy.
MappingService: an OSX service which takes highlighted addresses and puts them [...]
Links for Sunday May 14 2006
iondb: this is a cross-platform app for consuming all manner of podcasts. The critical difference from existing apps is that iondb also makes it simple to create your own playlists and share them. via Lucas Gonze.
End to end unicode web applications in python.
A Survey of Open Source Apps Available for Mac OS [...]
Zoomin
At last, a decent mapping application for Australia with street level granularity and a beautiful interface: Zoomin.
It’s nice to see the emergence of an app by antipodean developers who are obviously clueful about the modern web. I say this because the options until now for utilizing map data in Australia have been both clunky [...]
Google’s ExplorerCanvas
I’ve been playing with the canvas tag a bit lately. Now that ajax is becoming relatively commonplace, I can imagine canvas becoming one of the pillars of a new generation of web apps. The only thing holding it back has been the lack of support for the tag in Internet Explorer, but Google [...]