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

The Facebooker Who Friended Obama - NYTimes.com

deryck — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:09:39 PDT

A really nice article on how Chris Hughes, one of the founders of Facebook, left Facebook at the peak of its popularity to work for the Obama campaign. Most interesting to me is the point that at that time, Chris was finding his away around and the Obama campaign was not the force it is today. After winning Iowa, of course, that all changed. It's a nice point, too, about how social networks on the web serve a use to connect real people in their everyday lives. The point is made in the article that the Obama site drives local connections, rather than just connections for the sake of the site itself.

Regator

deryck — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:34:36 PDT

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.

Strange square on Gmail - Google Blogoscoped Forum

deryck — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:39:01 PDT

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.

Google Friend Connect

deryck — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:35:40 PDT

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.

Social Graph API - Google Code

deryck — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:24:57 PDT

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.

Google App Engine - Google Code

deryck — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:30:51 PDT

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.

About our maps / The EveryBlock Blog

deryck — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:13:55 PST

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.

Gmail: AIM Integration

deryck — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:28:01 PST

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.

Slashdot | Google Pages to be Replaced by JotSpot

deryck — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 07:41:04 PST

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.

Evaluate Low Level JavaScript Performance Characteristics

deryck — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:16:31 PDT

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

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

deryck — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:58:06 PDT

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. :)

Google Gears (BETA)

deryck — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 08:44:12 PDT

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.

Django

deryck — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:00:07 PDT

Can't imagine building websites without this now.