During the Summer of Widgets hack event last weekend, Tomas Caspers, Nina Wieland and Jens Grochdreis had the idea of creating a translation tool to translate from the local Cologne accent to German and back. For this, they found a pretty impressive data source on the web, namely this web site by Reinhard Kaaden. The […]

During the mentoring sessions at last weekend’s Young Rewired State one of the most asked questions was how you can easily re-use content on the web. The answer I gave was by using YQL and I promised a short introduction to the topic so here it is. What we are going to do here and […]

Things that made me happy this morning: 8 bit trip is a 1500 hour work stop-motion movie with lego bricks. James Gibbons collected a great list of assistive technology videos Labuat has a wonderful interactive song and ink thing in Flash If you need a UK postcode API there is Ernest Maples SVGWeb is a […]

Update: I did not start the songsincode meme, I just inspired and was a catalyst of it. The guys in Frogtrade started the craziness and the full story is available here I am quite amazed just how much the #songsincode thing is mushrooming right now on twitter. Some months ago I had posted this one: […]

I have just returned from Toronto, Canada where I spoke at the second Domain Convergence conference about web development with distributed data and about using the social web. First of all I have to say that this was an eye-opening experience for me as I never even knew that there is a whole community of […]