I just had a bit of fun with Twitter and the Google charts API. You can now add an image to your blog, web site or wherever and show a picture of what kind of a twitter user you are. All you need to do is embed an image and give it the right source: […]

I’m just looking out of the window at the snow on my balcony (in London! ZOMG!) and try to wrap up my quick trip to Vienna to attend the A-Tag conference which was an accessibility event sponsored by both Austrian government organizations and commercial partners. Photo by Markus Ladstaetter The motto of the conference was […]

Continuing my playing around with Yahoo BOSS, I’ve put together a quick WordPress plugin to add keywords to any of your blog posts. Simply Download the plugin unpack it to your plugin directory and activate it. Once activated you can use two commands in your blog posts: [ yahookeywords:parisweb] This will be replaced by a […]

Yesterday I was one of the speakers at Paris Web and my talk was “Working in the now”: [slideshare id=749394&doc=workinginthenow-1226584706289320-9&w=425] Originally I meant to talk about HTML5 goodies and how to simulate them with Flash and DHTML right now (writing a small abstraction library) but seeing the latest rounds of crashes and layoffs I changed […]

One of my favourite “old school” Yahoo APIs is the term extractor which is a service that extracts relevant keywords from a text you give it. Yahoo BOSS is now supporting this feature for indexed web sites. While you’d normally just get a list of sites with for example: http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/web/v1/donkeys?format=xml&appid={appid} You can get the keywords […]