I’ve just started playing with Google Chrome Extensions heavily inspired by Mark Wubben’s talk at SWDC and of course the first thing I build is something to do with geographical locations. Geo This! adds a little Earth icon to Chrome that, when pressed, analyses the page and shows a map of the locations it found […]

Paypal together with some other partners are currently hosting a developer competition with prizes of over $160,000. For more information check out the Paypal X challenge web site. To give you more information about the challenge and to introduce you to the Paypal and Yahoo APIs to be used in your submissions we invite developers […]

Breaking news: The Guardian once again involved in committing a data awesome! As before, the UK newspaper graced developers with a really cool piece of information published on the web: all the World Cup 2010 statistics as an Excel Sheet. Now, the easiest way to play with this data is to use YQL, so I […]

When my esteemed colleague Ara Pehlivanian told me that he plans to set up a web development lifestyle magazine called http://webstylemag.com and asked me for participation I was reluctant at first as it seems a bit inbred. However, Ara had done such a nice job and I remember having had such good feedback to my […]

I am right now working with Paypal on setting up a developer evening in the next few days to talk people through Paypal and Yahoo’s APIs and systems to build something cool for the Paypal X Developer Challenge. All in all the contest has prizes of $160,000 with $100,000 being the main prize and $10,000 […]