Ma.gnolia: Deryck Hodge's Bookmarks Tagged With "web apps"

Regator

2008-07-03T13:34:36-07:00

Trying to find a new aggregator. Google Reader is just feeling clunky to me now, and I need something to make sifting the web noise easier for me. Anyone tried this and have good things to say? The reviews look pretty nice.

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Tags: rss, web apps

Strange square on Gmail - Google Blogoscoped Forum

2008-07-03T08:39:01-07:00

Been wondering about this. And now we know. Hide your frameborders Gmail! :-) I've Greasemonnkey'ed it to make it go away for now. It's like a scratch on my glasses that I cannot ignore.

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Tags: google, web apps, gmail

Google Friend Connect

2008-05-13T12:35:40-07:00

I only looked at this briefly, but it looks to me like a lightweight way to implement open social on a site without having to be a full social gadget container. Or maybe better said it's one simple way into being a social gadget container site. I could very easily be misunderstanding this, since I only looked quickly at the pages. Will return to it later.... and comment more here when I do.

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Tags: google, web apps

Social Graph API - Google Code

2008-05-13T12:24:57-07:00

I have just gotten around to playing with this social query service from Google. It's pretty nice, I have to say. Basically, you query for a list of relationships against a certain URL, or group of URLs, and you get back the data in JSON. You can either parse the data directly in a callback function in JavaScript, or parse the structure in some server-side program. I'm quite sure I'll end up making use of this very soon.

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Tags: google, web apps, apis, services

Google App Engine - Google Code

2008-04-09T07:30:51-07:00

Now that I've had a day or two to digest this, I think this plays a part in Google's Open Social efforts. One of the coolest features of App Engine is the Google account integration, which gets lost a little as people outline all the Big Table and other such features around scalability. So how do I see this playing in the larger Open Social picture? One of the hardest things about Facebook apps is trying to scale them, and Google has effectively taken this off the table. Of course, you could deploy a Facebook app from App Engine, but the integration points -- i.e. Google account integration -- fit better for Google-based social apps. And I do love that it does WSGI and smells a little like Django.

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Tags: google, web apps, deployment, scalability

About our maps / The EveryBlock Blog

2008-02-19T08:13:55-08:00

Paul Smith explains why EveryBlock built it's own map engine and gives a little insight into how they put it together technically. I think this was a smart and good move for them. Glad to see EveryBlock continuing to be innovative in the way Adrian's Chicago Crime was innovative with Google Maps.

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Tags: mapping, maps, web apps, adrian holovaty

Gmail: AIM Integration

2007-12-05T07:28:01-08:00

Gmail now allows logins to AIM via GTalk. I don't use the web version of GTalk much, but it's nice to know if I'm on the road somewhere I can get this all in one experience.

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Tags: google, gmail, web apps

Slashdot | Google Pages to be Replaced by JotSpot

2007-12-03T07:41:04-08:00

I always thought Google Pages was one of the weaker offerings from Google. It really serves no purpose, IMHO, since most non-tech people use a blog engine for simple publishing. This talk of what might be possible with Jot Spot -- intranets, etc. -- sounds more interesting and useful. Be interesting to see what comes of it.

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Tags: google, web apps

Evaluate Low Level JavaScript Performance Characteristics

2007-10-12T07:16:31-07:00

Nice little page that can be run from any browser to determine performance of JavaScript language features.

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Tags: javascript, performance, web apps

Apple Developer Connection - iPhone for Web Developers - Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone

2007-07-07T08:58:06-07:00

Developer docs for doing web apps on the iPhone. Interesting that web apps will have hooks into the other applications on the phone. I know some are complaining, but this plenty of SDK for me. :)

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Tags: iphone, web apps, development

Google Gears (BETA)

2007-06-01T08:44:12-07:00

Google enters the offline web app space with Gears. You can try it with Google Reader for now, which makes a lot of sense to me. I'd love to catch up on my backlog of feed reading from an airplane.

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Tags: offline web apps, web apps, google

Django

2006-09-19T22:00:07-07:00

Can't imagine building websites without this now.

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Tags: django, frameworks, web apps