The Will to Build

May 11, 2009 – 10:59 am

I went to the first day of Yahoo! Open Hack London this weekend – three rooms at Covent Garden’s Congress Centre, a couple of hundred hackers and liberal supplies of catering coffee. For those unacquainted with the Yahoo!-brand recipe for hack days, their flavour goes something like this: a morning’s talks about Yahoo! hack-worthy technologies […]

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Yahoo! Fire Eagle and location deduping

March 6, 2008 – 10:57 am

Fire Eagle launched to developers yesterday. I’ve been keeping my fingers crossed that it is going to provide the location deduping I want for the mobile city review service I’ve been building. The idea behind this is to get people reviewing bars or restaurants by sending mini-reviews via text, which include their location. The downside […]

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You linkin’ at me? Why Yahoo! is better than Google for finding inbound links

September 11, 2007 – 4:34 pm

I heard about this brilliant tip from Paul Silver at Barcamp Brighton this weekend, and not being able to find much about it on the web thought I’d write it up. This material comes from Paul’s presentation about ethical SEO. Google sucks at displaying the number of incoming links to your website when you search […]

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All the news in your TiddlyWiki

July 12, 2007 – 5:15 pm

I’ve put together a TiddlyWiki plugin that renders the output of a Yahoo! Pipes news feed aggregator into your TiddlyWiki. There is some basic checking for different formats of news feed when gathering the content and author data. I’ve attached the source code to this post (it’s a .doc to get past the wordpress js […]

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