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I have received such positive response over my post on Pandora that I feel compelled to share this new nugget of joy: Pandora Desktop.
http://pandora.com/desktop
On the technical side, it is powered by Adobe AIR, which allows for desktop applications to be built using normal web authoring methods (as far as  I know… haven’t actually tried it [...]

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My LibraryThing, which is a Facebook application I began to develop only about 3/4 of a year ago, is now able to be installed on Facebook Pages. Specifically requested by the Deakin University Library in Victoria, Australia, the app was quickly retrofitted and can already be seen on their page.
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Tonight Julie and her Mom took the hour-and-a-half drive up to Strong, leaving both Becca (my 8-year-old sister-in-law) and Amelia in my care.  Although I would not normally categorize this as “one of my favorite things,” we actually have been doing alright.  Becca and I played a lot of guitar hero while Amelia bounced around, [...]

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[Note: This is not a rant. It is a critical analysis of a set of widely-used internet services.]
Across Google’s powerful suite of web applications, there are a small (but growing!) number of concerns I have with the lack of conformity that would give them a significant advantage over competing rich internet applications. There [...]

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And I couldn’t be happier about it. I thought it was great before when I could check out my friends’ profile pages and look for their phone number, but now there is an aggregate all in one place.
Well played, Facebook, well played.

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My first facebook application, LibraryThing Feed, has broken the 400 barrier. Certainly not a great big deal, as other apps are counting users in the hundreds of thousands, but I still think its pretty cool. It’s been growing pretty steady at about 10-15 a day. I think I am pretty close to [...]

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Every single time I deal with this, it punches me in the face. I love it because its cool, I hate it because I always forget.
In Javascript, (as well as other Object-Oriented languages) objects (what we used to call “variables” back in the day) can use functions as properties. For instance, in order [...]

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When I first discovered the list tags in HTML (ul, li…) I scoffed. That’s all fine and dandy to give an example of creating a grocery list, but who is going to really use that when building a website. And so I labeled it “lame” and went on my merry way of implementing [...]

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I have only recently discovered Google Bookmarks, but it has quickly become a source of internet joy. And joyness. It’s power and functionality is only harnessed when coupled with this Google Bookmarks firefox extension.
The actual “bookmark” function is pretty straightforward: You can enter websites that you visit frequently for quick access or for [...]

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My theme for late on here has been for posting pet peeves.  It seems that blogs are good for either disseminating innovative and useful information (of which I have none) and for ranting.  So onward we go.
Facebook.  One of the more awesome things to happen on the internet in recent history, and definitely the Most [...]

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