Having a result on Spoke when searching for your name is a drag. In addition to their reputation for being spammy and intrusive, the data listed is often inaccurate or out of date. To remove your profile from such public searches, their FAQ provides the clue.
The Sprint website has been offline (i.e., unusable) for over 48 hours now as Sprint is launching a new software release. Can’t we do better than that these days?
Christian Heilmann (Yahoo! Evangelist) has created GeoMaker – a great way to learn about Yahoo’s Geo technologies like Placemaker. Here I put GeoMaker to the test with the lyrics from “I’ve Been Everywhere” by Johnny Cash.
Still finding more reasons to play with and learn YQL, and following up from my experiment with random numbers, today I implemented YQL support for lipsum.com, a “Lorem Ipsum” text generator.
I recently discovered a very cool random number generator site appropriately called Random.org. After poking around a bit at the various generators available on the site, I created a custom data table to access these random number services via Yahoo’s YQL engine.