Software As She’s Developed

Mahemoff’s Podcast/Blog - Web, Programming, Usabilty from the Author of ‘Ajax Design Patterns’ (AjaxPatterns.org)

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Blummy: The Mother of All Bookmarklets

October 24th, 2005 · 1 Comment

Check out Alexander Kirk’s new website: Blummy. A blummy is a kind of bookmarklet that opens up a kind of pop-up portal, giving you access to various web services. Just like a portal is made up of Portlets, a Blummy is made of Blummlets, which essentially do the kind of things bookmarklets do. e.g. […]

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Protopage as Portal

August 21st, 2005 · 4 Comments

I mentioned Protopage yesterday. It’s look-and-feel has so much more appeal than the standard Ajaxian portals (Google Homepage, Backbase, Start, etc.). Considering the others are more powerful functionally - given that you can do stuff like grab RSS feeds and search history - I wondered why I like Protopage so much more. There’s a […]

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