Geolocating content on the web is a great idea. By embedding latitude and longitude and real place names in your document you allow data mining for location or easy display on a map. The problem up to now was that it is quite a job to find out the correct geo information from a text […]

Things that made me happy this morning:   is also an acronym for No Bullshit please Microsoft released a whitepaper for webmasters and publishers about Bing – nothing earth shattering in there, but a nice service. I like that you can have a meta tag to suppress Bing taking preview shots: Laughing Squid did a […]

Yesterday I was in Barcelona, Spain and talked to a few dozen local developers about the things they can find on the Yahoo Developer Network to have an easier time building web sites and impress their bosses. Amongst other things I showed: How to do 4 web searches with one http request (also in pure […]

Momentile has an IE6 message screen full of awesome A nice YQL open table to allow for multi queries Seeing that Facebook redirects vanity URLs with JavaScript, I thought I grab http://www.facebook.com/window.location.href Is it irony or by design that the London 2600 site has an invalid certificate ? The top 50 of words people looked […]

Last week I visited Sky in London for a brown bag session during lunch. Their head of innovation, Paul Kane had asked me to come around and talk about API design, the history of YQL and in general tips and tricks how to get innovation and developer outreach working in companies and media. One part […]