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Wordle + HeyChinaski.com

Daniel just Pownced a link to Wordle, a very slick application for generating clouds of words from a bunch of text where the most frequent words are displayed the largest.  It has a nice interface for customizing the appearance of … Continue reading

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FindMe Firefox extension

Would anyone like to help me beta test Findme, my new Firefox extension? It uses Google’s Social Graph API to find other pages that belong to the same person as the page you’re currently viewing. For example from this blog’s … Continue reading

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Milkman of human resentfulness

It pains me to say it but Billy Bragg, a fantastic artist, performer and songwriter who has enjoyed a long successful career, never failing to maintain an air of credibility and integrity throughout, sounds somewhat out of touch in his … Continue reading

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Wikipedia, Smale’s paradox and Goetz’s law

A video entitled Outside In from the Geometry Center popped up on Digg today explaining how it is possible to turn a sphere inside out without cutting or creasing it (given that it is infinitely elastic and can intersect itself). … Continue reading

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Altio + Last.fm

Here‘s a little Altio app I built with a couple of guys from work (I work at Altio) that uses the new Graph custom control and the data feeds from the music website Last.fm to map connections between Last.fm users … Continue reading

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Pownce+SXSW

I’ve known about this for sometime, but Ariel just announced on the Pownce blog that they have chosen the Pownce+SXSW site I announced yesterday as the one they’ll be promoting at SXSW this weekend.

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More Pownce News

A couple of weeks ago Leah and Ariel from Pownce suggested that someone build an app that shows a subset of the Pownce public feed with just the notes that contain the string “sxsw” for the upcoming SXSW Interactive festival. … Continue reading

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Powncified Update

Just a little update about Powncified. It’s been going quite well, not required too much maintenance and received a little attention courtesy of a pownce note from Daniel Burka. Thanks Daniel. It also briefly featured on the video podcast Epic-Fu … Continue reading

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Kevin Rose beta tests Yahoo! Live

Yesterday, Yahoo announced it’s new live video streaming service Yahoo Live and I noticed on Powncified that Kevin Rose was testing the feature on his own channel. The Flash-based interface consists of the stream from the channel owner, some kind … Continue reading

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Powncified

The post count on this blog has been dwindling somewhat recently. Spare time has been taken up working on a new project, Powncified which has been visible in the the side bar for a while. Powncified is a fan project … Continue reading

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