Last week I went to Paris, France to speak at a Yahoo Developer Network event and Paris Web. Paris Web is a web development, design and accessibility conference that runs for the fourth year (I think) and I’ve been speaking there for the third time. My presentation – basic housekeeping Originally I planned to speak […]

Last week I was in Paris for a Yahoo Developer Network evening and Paris Web and one of the talks I gave was an introduction to Yahoo Open Applications. These are applications that you can embed in the Yahoo homepage or My Yahoo and thus allow you to reach millions of users – or extend […]

Things that made me happy this morning. Changing a staircase into a massive piano makes 60% more people use it instead of the escalators – fun is the best way to make people use things. You can do vocoding with a Piano YQL meets SPARQL Kayak releases trends data – sadly enough not as a […]

Things that made me happy this morning: I’ve built my first Yahoo App to add to your Y! homepage TweetTrans is a Twitter search with translation options In case you ever wanted to install linux on a dead badger – there is a tutorial for that. You could also case mod a beaver. If you […]

Things that made me happy this morning: YUI 3 is out of beta – the changes to YUI needed to run the new Yahoo homepage, smaller, faster, less code to write. Google Docs now has an experimental OCR conversion API – post an image to the API endpoint and get a text version as a […]