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Product PreviewAmazon 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.
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).
I came across some Google Wave art this morning, and recognized it instantly as a classic!
(note: I don’t support the skinning of cats) Web Programming LanguagesWhile 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.
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. Continue reading »
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. Continue reading »
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.
Long Day CodingHad a helluva weird 17 hour coding spree yesterday. By setting up and slightly modifying the friendfeed application example, I nearly drove one of the super helpful friendfeed developers bonkers (yeah I’m that bad with questions). The plus side, I have a basic handle on the Google App Engine (GAE), Python, Django html scripting and jury rigging eclipse projects to run php (why oh why doesn’t GAE support PHP). Continue reading » |
