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HP Gloe: Connecting Web Pages with Locations
The geniuses at the HP Social Computing Lab have built a proof-of-concept web application, Android app and an API that is nothing short of awesomesauce. Gloe is augmented reality at its best… combining web pages with locations to create what could end up being one of the best location-based services yet. Gloe is a geo-tagging [...]
What is an API?
Click Image to Play Video http://live.pirillo.com/ – API stands for Application Programming Interface. It allows developers share information between their programs. It’s a standard method where developers can access a program (or website) and build a program around it. Wikipedia has this to say: An application programming interface (API) is a source code interface that [...]
The World’s Funniest API
Sean Hickey has created an amazing workflow for both Brad and myself in bLaugh comic publishing. In doing so, he’s also created a WordPress plugin for the comic (found on his own amazing WP Plugins directory). It’s Sidebar Widget compatible, BTW. I thought it would have been nicer to see bLaugh show up on my [...]
Mechanical Turd
I don’t really wanna poop on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) program, but I have a huge problem with it: you can’t sign up to deploy the service unless you give them your bank account information first! Are we living in 1990 or something? Have they ever heard of PayPal – or a credit card, at [...]
Over 300 Tag Searches in One Spot
Don’t expect every one of these searches to yeild results, though. The output was generated by a single OPML file and the Optimal OPML WordPress Plugin. Looking for other easy ways to display the OPML from Gada.be right now. Hell, entirely new sites could be built on top of the OPML we produce – much [...]
Flickr Fun
I don’t know why I didn’t think of this before, but I’d like to put my latest Flickr photo thumbnails in the Lockergnome HTML newsletters. Since I use CaRP, I have virtually no configuration options (other than manual hacking or asking Antone). In searching for an easy way to get ‘er done, I found this [...]
