Your Personal API (February 6th, 2010 - 380 views)

Everyone has a Personal API these days. Look at my blog sidebar – I put my photos on flickr, my messages on twitter, my location on dopplr, my places on foursquare, my bookmarks on delicious, my music on last.fm, and they’re just the regular ones let alone everything else.

Your mix of APIs might look slightly [...]

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Your Desktop Wallpaper (June 4th, 2009 - 909 views)

I’ve got this beach wallpaper happening at the moment. You can get it from Flickr.

What have you got? What does it mean? How often do you change?

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12 Web Services That Shine (December 29th, 2008 - 1,334 views)

I just wanted to highlight some really well-built websites I might not use every day, but like anyway. 

They have a strong brand, they have attention to detail, they have a vibrant membership. They do it right. They are well built. 
Meetup
Their vision is “Let’s use the Internet to get people off the Internet.” They run the [...]

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Revisit Your Old Flickr Photos with Time Capsule (December 2nd, 2008 - 1,654 views)

Photographs have an amazing ability to induce nostalgia. We capture them without regard for how we will view them in the future. They are sharper than our memories, something to rely on. Why are they so often abandoned afterwards?

Flickr and Facebook and the numerous other photo-sharing websites available today all help us distribute our images [...]

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The Future Of Blogging (September 1st, 2008 - 1,454 views)

Recently there has been a lot of talk about the Future of Blogging, and since have just decided to start blogging again I find this conversation quite interesting.
Before considering the future though, where has it come from?
My history of publishing online
In 1999 I had been online for a little while, and started playing with html. Geocities [...]

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