With President Obama’s inauguration came a new website for the White House, generating lots of buzz around the internet. Obama supporters have high hopes for his leadership, and for web geeks in particular, high hopes for his web site. For myself, I found the executive orders section interesting and something worth keeping an eye on over time. Unfortunately, that portion of the site doesn’t have its own RSS feed, so I created one using Yahoo! Pipes.
Seafood Watch (part of the Monterey Bay Aquarium) has published their Seafood Guides for quite a while — giving cooks and diners helpful guidance about the impact to eating different types of seafood. Now they’ve created an online mobile edition in two forms: a Seafood Watch iPhone application, and a Seafood Watch mobile website.
Yesterday, the Yahoo! Mobile team released their list of the top 10 mobile searches users made in 2008. Topping the list was MySpace, followed by Facebook and Craigslist.
Today the new “Programming Q&A” site Stack Overflow launches. With the large tech crowd that follows founders Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software) and Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror), this new site should have no problem building an audience of its own. According to the About page: Stack Overflow is a programming Q & A site that’s free. Free to ask questions, free to answer questions, free to read, free to index, built with plain old HTML, no fake rot13 text on the home page, no scammy google-cloaking tactics, no salespeople, no JavaScript windows dropping down in front of the answer asking…
IMG_5117-01 Originally uploaded by pbernosky. Girl Talk performed to an eager crowd at this year’s open hackday: Open Hack 2008. (Look for tag openhack08). Speaking of hacking, check out Any Baio’s analysis of Girl Talk’s latest album: Girl Turk: Mechanical Turk Meets Girl Talk’s “Feed the Animals”. He uses Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in an interesting way to analyze the track contents.