Yesterday was the start of “public beta” for Yahoo! 360° — it’s kind of like a social-networking service, but I know it goes much beyond that. Now that it’s about to launch, I really need to take a closer look . If anyone wants an invite, just let me know. Update: My 360° Blog is at: http://360.yahoo.com/cantonib. Also, to view... (more)
March 2005 Archives
NASCAR Drinking Game Originally uploaded by joegasper. While exploring Flickr, ran across this little gem: a Nascar Drinking Game!... (more)
It only took a week and a half, but I finally uploaded my pictures from the Las Vegas Nascar weekend. Without the garage passes we enjoyed in Phoenix, I didn’t go as crazy with the camera, but did capture a couple of good ones. [Side note: now that Yahoo! bought Flickr, I decided to finally upgrade to the “Pro” account... (more)
A couple weeks back, while parking in the special “Dodge Pickup and Expensive Italian Supercar” lot at work, I spotted this beauty. I’m not up on my Ferrari models, but I think this is a 360 Spider.... (more)
Today we headed to Las Vegas for this weekend’s NASCAR Busch and Nextel Cup races! I didn’t score any garage passes that we were lucky to have last year in Phoenix, so we’ll be “slumming” it with everyone else. No matter — the weather is supposed to be in the 80’s and after all, it is in Vegas, so we... (more)
Earlier this week, Yahoo! released web services for accessing various types of search results. So far it seems to be pretty well received with lots of applications starting to appear. Two examples created by fellow Yahoos are: Firefox Search Sidebar (by Marc Abramowitz) is a nice Firefox sidebar extension that shows search results in a nicely compact format Buzzing the... (more)
I was following Santa Clara’s game tonight in the WCC tournament and discovered Gametracker from Collegesports.com. Gametracker is a great web application, providing all the details you’d want from basketball games in progress. (Plus, it’s written in Flash and doesn’t require Internet Explorer.) One feature in particular is something I’ve thought of before: a graph of each team’s total points... (more)
