This weekend I was explaining to a friend the new geotagging capabilities in Flickr and other online photo sites. After posting a photo from my Treo 600, I ran into an interesting phenomenom when I went to geotag it: what happens when the physical structure or location is significantly different now versus when the satellite data was taken. Streets, rivers, and towns don’t need to move cialischeapprice.com around much, but in this case the venerable Stanford stadium has been completely rebuilt over the past 9 months. So, I made a best guess while tagging. Whenever the satellite data is updated…
Bloglines just released an update to the Bloglines Mobile portal that integrates Skweezer technology: For those of us who rely on and love Bloglines Mobile while on the go, here’s another reason to dig it. Bloglines has now integrated Skweezer technology to optimize web pages for your personal handheld mobile device’s viewing pleasure. Bloglines Mobile is pretty interesting, but its usefulness is sometimes limited. The mobile display of feeds usually works well because they’re pretty lightweight. But, following links to real websites is practically useless. By integrating Skweezer into all outbound links, they’ve made this much less of an issue.…
Today was the final day of the Future of Web Apps conference and another set of great speakers. Today’s best talks were from Michael Arrington, Ted Rheingold and Evan Williams. The whole day was good, but those doxycycline-buy.com/ three stood out. Overall it was a great event and I’d recommend it for anyone in or trying to learn about the latest in web applications. See more on Technorati and Flickr
Today the Yahoo! Mail Beta software is being opened up for general release (previously it had been in a limited beta). It’s still “beta” software, but I know they wanted to make sure it was reliable and scalable before opening up to the general user base. (Internally, we’ve been able to run it for about 6 months.) This release has been getting really good reviews. There’s a lot of AJAX magic going on that makes the UI look and act very similar to a desktop application. People used to running Outlook will probably like this interface as well. I like…
Had a pretty good time at Day 1 of the Future of Web Apps conference today. The presentations by Dick Hardt, Tom Coates, and Tantek Çelik were the best. The Yahoo! ZoneTag talk was pretty cool, but could have been shown better, maybe with an ELMO. The Google Calendar talk was pretty good, but the presentation ran a bit and didn’t do the product justice. Oh, and the WiFi was horrible, basically useless. I don’t think it’s the workshop organizers’ fault (they probably spent a bundle on it), but the WiFi provider seriously dropped the ball on this one. Literally…