Daily Archives: June 14th, 2007

First look at TiddlyWiki

June 14, 2007 – 8:51 pm

I’ve started to work with our new hire at BT, Jeremy Ruston, hence the sudden upturn in the amount that I’m actually making the time to play with technology instead of just talk about it. Jeremy has come over to BT to setup what I’m thinking of as “Open Source Centres”. I’ll definitely be talking [...]

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Dapp crap – Google notebook / RSS update

June 14, 2007 – 5:55 pm

Agh. So this is the most unelegant thing, but I have an RSS feed of my Google notebook: http://tinyurl.com/2t8wbx This involves two dapps and a custom xslt transform. Here’s how it works: The first Dapp turns the Google notebook into XML A hapispace page turns this XML into title/post pairs The second Dapp turns this [...]

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Getting Google notes onto my blog

June 14, 2007 – 4:16 pm

I’ve just started using Google Notepad and I think it’s great, but I wish it had a “Post to Blog” option. I’m trying to use various services to make this happen anyway, and it’s a first example of creating a mashup that does some monitoring when I’m not there to tend to it – a [...]

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Why do I want to give mashups a nervous system?

June 14, 2007 – 4:12 pm

Here are just a few things that I would want to build if I could assemble a mashup that was capable of monitoring data sources and responding to changes… Please feel free to add more in the comments… Automatically publish my Google notes to my blog Add entries to an online database when I twitter [...]

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Google Notebooks “dapp”

June 14, 2007 – 2:34 pm

I’ve been playing with the Dapper service today as I wanted to create a feed of my Google Notebook items – I think they are rather short on ways to export my data. You can see an example of how it works below. The URL you put in the input field is a public Google [...]

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Mashups with nerves

June 14, 2007 – 12:05 pm

Thinking about user-driven programming. The main guys involved here: Yahoo! Pipes, Microsoft Popfly, Teqlo… they all let you build “run-once” applications, that process some inputs and produce some outputs. This is fine for the kind of applications that they are showcasing – read my news, display my photos, etc… but what if you want to [...]

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