Steve Yegge accidentally shared this memo externally on Google+ but has since taken it down, which is the only mistake he made. I’m resharing it here because my mobile safari browser had problems on the page, and I needed to keep a “fork” of it for future reference. Hands down this is the most enlightening post I’ve read on Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) and programmable functional units.
Tag: google
Death Clock Begins for Google Image Search API amongst others
This morning I caught up on the troubling news that Google is performing spring cleaning for some of their APIs. Amongst the damned is my beloved image search API which I enjoyed leveraging in a number of web apps. Joining my favored API on the “long flush” are a host of other interfaces: (more…)
Amazon Ad Plays Nice with IE/Firefox, Fails to Render in Chrome/Safari
Product Preview
Amazon product links have an interesting optional functionality called Product Preview. It has had other arcane names in the past (link enhancer), but has a similar functionality to Snapshots. Basically when you mouse over an enhanced link, the browser renders a small image with detailed information.
Google Social Search, True or False Dichotomy
What is Social Search?
Google is known as the undisputed lead in web search. But the rise of social media sharing has lead to a large fraction of users bypassing standard search portals (no ad toll, or someone else gets the ad revenue). Our friends, colleagues and folks we respect have proved to be incredibly powerful super human filters (mortal portals, ca-ching another nickel Louis Gray).
ChromeOS more than a dumb terminal?
Google Wave Meme – Pulp Fiction!
I came across some Google Wave art this morning, and recognized it instantly as a classic!
Awesome job by Copyrighthater !
14 million ways to skin a cat – web programming
(note: I don’t support the skinning of cats)
Web Programming Languages
While I’m relatively new to web programming, there is a fairly large barrier to entry to this wonderful world of creation for someone like myself. You see, I like to choose the best tool for a job and get to work. The problem is, there are too many damn good tools for web programming, and I’m not knowledgeable enough to decide on which is the right one to use for any given project.
Augmented Reality Using Google Wave as a Protocol
Browsing wave this morning I came across a few folks interested in laying the foundation for a common augmented reality system. Here’s a diagram showing a conceptual information flow, but instead of IRC wave may be a better choice of data channel. Users can select waves to layer perception of augmented objects. Some waves could represent Yelp like reviews, others could be banner ads floating over a beach, while even apparel or hairstyles could be virtually attached to real world objects. The applications are unlimited but first there are barriers to implementation. (more…)
How to Embed Google Wave on Your WordPress Blog
First grab the plugin wavr from Lucas Caro here or simply search for wavr in the plugin search of your blog’s administration page. Big thanks to Ian Norris for helping me extract the wave ID from the URL. Translation thanks to Aunt-Rosie bot built by Andrew.
Quick side note: I came across a promising new crowd sourced/filtering site: waverz. Worried about finding relevant and useful public waves? Let waverz gather the filtering results for you. (more…)
Google Wave AHA! moment, with:public is Awesome
Would You Like with:public with your Wave?
Absolutely, Emphatically, Yes! To make a public wave you simply add the public@a.gwave.com user to your contact list, then drag that user to the wave. You gotta hand it to Google to make creating public waves infinitley more complicated than adding a public button.