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Category Archives: Web2.0
like.com – Now This Is Exactly What Is Wrong With The World Today
I find like.com rather a rather appalling application of cutting edge computer science. I’m probably nothing like the target market but I find myself disgusted at people bragging about the ocean-boiling computing power required to allow people to purchase yet … Continue reading
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Scrybe – Yet Another Calendar Application – But Its A Very Good Looking One
http://www.iscrybe.com/cal/index.html The video alone is worth watching just to get an idea of what its possible to do in a browser nowadays. I was hoping to be first to launch something with the “work offline now, sync to server later” … Continue reading
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Movietally.com – A del.icio.us For Movies
I just got sent a PR style blurb about this site. Wow – targeted PR marketing that didn’t try to sell me willy tablets – someone thinks I’m influential! I’m not going to cut and paste the marketroid slab of text they sent … Continue reading
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Using New Monopoly Visa Debit Card Gadget As A Project Management Tool
In their latest edition of Monopoly “Monopoly Here and Now Electronic Banking“, Parker Brothers has made some changes. Players now use a Visa debit card to keep track of their bank balances. I can’t find any detail on how the … Continue reading
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This Month In JavaScript – 2006.7
“Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information. Below is a live example that you can play with. Pan the timeline by dragging it horizontally.” http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/ “Slightly ThickerBox is a … Continue reading
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I have a 4 Colour Pen, Fear Me Now
On the topic of how we do our thinking/wire-framing/documentation, in a wonderful thread in Leisa Reichelt’s blog…. Also here in a thread on UML vs Nothing and a post from Melissa Firth‘s shiny fresh new blog that mentions UML being used to outline the narrative of a … Continue reading
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June 6th Is JavaScript 'Array' and 'Object.prototype' Awareness Day
I want my children to grow up in a world when coding in JavaScript does not result in a fistfight. Brendan Eich may have intended Arrays to be only numeric, but the reality is they do more, and people have … Continue reading
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Bikely – A Bike Route Sharing Google-Maps Remix
Thanks to Damian for pointing out this site. Now that Google maps works properly in Australia, someone has built http://www.bikely.com/ a very nice Google Maps mashup that allows you to share your favorite bike route. The behind the scenes story is … Continue reading
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Bypassing The Eolas Embedding Patent – In Pictures
As you now probably know, Microsoft has released a patch to IE6 because they have failed on appeal to overturn the Eolas patent on browser plug-ins, despite much back and forth and valiant efforts from the W3C. The effects of … Continue reading
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