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Joining Google

March 16th, 2010 · 10 Comments · SoftwareDev

I mentioned I’m moving on from Osmosoft a few weeks ago and after 12days and a week of doing much less than one could ever have imagined, it’s time to announce where I’m going: Google. I’ll be joining Google as a Chrome developer advocate, which means focusing on HTML5, Javascript, the Chrome browser, ChromeOS, and [...]

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Google IO Keynote, 2009

May 27th, 2009 · No Comments · SoftwareDev

I’m here at Google’s London office, where they’re streaming the IO keynote.

Eric Schmidt talks about Ajax, always-on, simplicity, and how it’s improved life.

Vic Gundotra’s on. We spent too long not fully using XML, CSS, etc., i.e mid-late ’90s they were there, but really started using them to the max around ~2005. Let’s not wait so [...]

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Google jQuery CDN

January 22nd, 2009 · 8 Comments · SoftwareDev

SUMMARY: Get the latest jQuery here:

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js

For example, cut-and-paste one of the following:

curl -O http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js wget http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js

With the release of JQuery 1.3, I thought I’d mention the Google JQuery CDN, one of several libraries you can yoink from Google’s Ajax Libraries API. Instead of hosting your own JQuery, you just point your web app to Google’s JQuery:

<script [...]

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Tools Europe – Pre-Workshop Preparation

June 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · SoftwareDev

I have the honour of delivering a keynote at the Tools Europe conference in Zurich next week, as well as at the “Mining Web 2.0 Patterns” workshop, which, as you can tell from its title, I’m looking forward to participating in. The workshop chairs are Dragos Manolescu and Joe Yoder.

The keynote is on OpenSocial, Gadgets, [...]

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What is OpenSocial?

June 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · SoftwareDev

I just realised there’s no good executive summary for OpenSocial. Every resource fluffs about the “social” aspect and forgets about the UI aspect. The UI aspect, essentially a gadget specification, is just as important as the social aspect, notwithstanding its absence from the “OpenSocial” brand name. I’m not a fan of the name “OpenSocial” [...]

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Where Do Widgets Come From? A Look at Widget/Gadget Content Types

February 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Links, SoftwareDev

Ajax, AjaxPatterns, Gadgets, Google, Web, Web 2.0, Widgets

Background

A while back, I walked through a Google Gadget I made called Digg Roundup, which simply shows Digg headlines and can be customised on topic and popularity. In my quest for an uber-simple tutorial, one thing I skipped on was content type, the subject of the present muttering. [...]

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Google Gadget API for Ajax Developers

June 30th, 2007 · 12 Comments · SoftwareDev

I just made my first Google Gadget - a Digg roundup tool. Here are some quick notes on making a Google Gadget for Ajax developers. I assume you know Ajax and also that you've played around with iGoogle as a user.

What's a Gadget?

The gadget is an XML file sitting on your server. In [...]

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Looks Good, Tastes Good

November 27th, 2005 · No Comments · HumansAndTech

The Search Engine Experiment - a blind test where users rate relevance of results - reveals that Google is better, but not that much better. The methodology is reasonable - the only serious flaw might be if people are assuming Google is always relevant, then trying to pick the Google results. Or if people go [...]

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Google Base = Flickr + Odeo + Typepad + …

October 26th, 2005 · 3 Comments · HumansAndTech

Google Base: It goes beyond classifieds. The popular view today seems to be that Google Base is all about classifieds, but as mentioned earlier, it's much more than that. (Incidentally, still smarting I missed the "All Your Bases" happy fun humorous moment opportunity.)

If Google Base lets you tag entries, you could easily create a podcast [...]

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Google’s Microcontent Engine

October 26th, 2005 · 4 Comments · HumansAndTech, Links

Google's apparently releasing base.google.com. While some see it as a Craigslist play, it's a lot more than that: Google has seen the future, and the future is one big mashup of microcontent. "A" microcontent is a small chunk of information, typically with its own URL, but not actually a web page. It's not a web [...]

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