Bookmarklet… meh

Getting tired of all the EVO/Android/iPhone love Jake’s been spewing lately? How about something a bit more dry and developery?  As promised in a prior post, here’s a more technical writeup of how I built the WebCenter sharing bookmarklet.  I was hesitant to write about this because it’s not like writing a bookmarklet is new [...]

Fourface Exposes New Interface Paradigms

Thanks to a tweet from the @foursquare team and a post from TechCrunch, I have a new app for checking in to foursquare, Fourface. Yeah, I know foursquare and location generally have been getting a lot of ink here and other place. Get used to it though because heading into SXSW later this week, location [...]

What’s the Best Way to Collect Ratings?

Photo by anne.oeldorfhirsch from Flickr used under Creative Commons YouTube published (h/t TechCrunch) an interesting graph of its video ratings earlier in the week. YouTube uses a five-star scale for rating videos, and according to them, rating a video one star means you “loathe” it, while rating a video five stars means you love it. [...]

Finally Something Interesting, Google Chrome Frame

Google’s announcement of Chrome Frame for Internet Explorer today may not seem all that momentous. John sums it up what a lot of folks are probably thinking here: What is Chrome Frame? According to the announcement, it’s an “open source plug-in that brings HTML5 and other open web technologies to Internet Explorer.” Sounds like John [...]

IE6 Death Rattle

Last week, Digg became the first major web site to end support for IE6, or at least, support for certain functions in IE6. Today, it looks like YouTube may be the next. This should come as no surprise, since the anti-IE6 movement has been in full voice for quite some time. What’s interesting is the [...]