How soon until we see lots of Javascript wrappers that make AJAX calls to web APIs via xlmhttprequest? Check out the very cool FlickrJS: A wrapper for Flickr API. Include the .js and you have complete access to the Flickr API.
Entries from April 25th, 2005
Getting Over It
April 21st, 2005 No Comments
Last week I got a letter from a health clinic that I used maybe five years ago. The letter said some of their PCs were stolen out of their office, and on those PCs were the electronic records of their patients, including mine. They also sent a photocopy of the police report, for reasons I [...]
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Yahoo! Superunits
April 21st, 2005 No Comments
Amongst the buzz around “we are not a portal” Google’s My Search History comes this mention from Bill Slawski (bragadocchio) at cre8asiteforums.com, who discusses Yahoo!s recent patent application regarding search personalization/optimization.
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Privacy in Death
April 21st, 2005 No Comments
So a court has ordered Y! to turn over all materials belonging to a marine killed in Iraq after his family sued to get access. Y! News has the AP story. To its credit (in my opinion), in order to comply wirh the court ruling, Y! turned over a CD of information (and will produce [...]
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Target Yahoo! Photos
April 21st, 2005 No Comments
I see that http://www.target.com/yahoophotos is live. It’s just a redirect to Yahoo photos – to a special URL, but (currently) without Target branding. It turns out that Target is going to use Yahoo Photos as a co-branded site. At first I suspect Target stores will promote Yahoo Photos. In the fall you’ll be able to [...]
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X1 Search Engine Takes $10MM
April 21st, 2005 No Comments
I don’t see it on their web site yet, but search engine company X1 today announced an investment of $10 million, lead by USVP. X1 is the search engine that Yahoo! uses as the base for its desktop search product. I wonder about the future of desktop search. Between Google and Yahoo providing free integrated [...]
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Yahoo! Shopping – Gift Finder
April 21st, 2005 No Comments
Today Y! Shopping rolls out a recommendation engine, licensed by ChoiceStream. I checked it out, at Yahoo! Shopping – Gift Finder and randomly tried to find a housewarming present. I got nothing. Then I looked at the source code for the resulting page, which had lines like: xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject(“Msxml2.XMLHTTP”); xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject(“Microsoft.XMLHTTP”); [...]
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Yahoo! News Beta
April 20th, 2005 No Comments
Have you seen the beta of Yahoo! news? Right away you can see it’s a redesign. While it was in alpha, company employees got to test drive it. I looked at it briefly and switched back, but eventually I got used to it and now I love it. It looks a lot more modern. Think [...]
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An Idle Thought
April 20th, 2005 No Comments
While browsing the Web today, I read the statement: Web analytics are a necessity… Is “web analytics” a collection of things (as the writer suggests), or a single thing?
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ASPs failed? Oh really?
April 20th, 2005 No Comments
Rajesh Jain claims that ASPs Failed – But Are Now Making A Comeback. Most of the article discusses well-trodden areas, but ends up saying that web services plus focus on the small business will result in a rebirth of the ASP model. I have no opinion on his conclusion, but in a narrow sense, I [...]
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