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Bruce Chizen

February 8th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Things What Look Good

  Bruce Chizen by jeffreymcmanus.
The lighting on the stage (and my camera phone’s lack of flash) wasn’t conducive to capturing Bruce’s sleek contours, but I was really interested in catching the cool LED curtain that adorned the back of the stage. Me and Barr were sitting in the front row for [...]

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Widgets Madness

December 12th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Things What Look Good, Web/Tech

New version of Yahoo! Widgets (formerly known as Konfabulator) out today, download it here. Information on what’s new is in the press release.
This is Lifehacker’s download of the today today, woo hoo!

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Le Cirque!

December 4th, 2005 · 3 Comments · Art, Things What Look Good

I’m chattering with excitement because we’re taking in Corteo on Saturday. We bought the spendy VIP tickets as soon as they went on sale back in June — that’s how much of a Cirque freak I am. (If you’re really really into them, I think the VIP tickets are worth it, particularly since they only [...]

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Justin’s Radar Map and Pirate Map

November 8th, 2005 · No Comments · Maps, Things What Look Good, Web/Tech, Yahoo

  radar-map by jeffreymcmanus.
This is just amazing…Justin did a few fully interactive skins on top of our new maps product to demonstrate how you can use Flash to tailor maps to look like your web site.

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New Yahoo! Maps

November 2nd, 2005 · No Comments · Maps, Things What Look Good, Web/Tech, Yahoo

New Yahoo! Maps release.
Also: new Yahoo! Maps APIs for developers, adding both Flash and Ajax APIs, geocoding, traffic, and the ability to embed maps on your own web site.
Party on.

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All of BART on a Yahoo! Map

October 15th, 2005 · 2 Comments · Maps, Things What Look Good, Transportation, Web/Tech, Yahoo

All of BART on a map, yo. I’d have pimped this earlier in the week but I got sidetracked with some other stuff.
I wrote a tool to make creating simple maps like this super easy. I’ll be releasing this tool soon so everybody can play. Until that happens, if you can hack together an XML [...]

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Konfabulator at OSCON This Week

August 1st, 2005 · 4 Comments · McManus World Tour, Things What Look Good, Web/Tech, Yahoo

I’ll be heading up to Portland tomorrow night with my whole team for OSCON. I’ll be giving a talk on Yahoo! Web Services and Konfabulator on Wednesday morning and I’ll be in the Yahoo! booth on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday. Stop by and say hi if you’re at the show.
Update: Here’s the description of the [...]

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Flickr Badges

June 10th, 2005 · No Comments · Things What Look Good, Web/Tech, Yahoo

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document.getElementById(‘zg_whatlink’).style.display = (document.getElementById(‘zg_whatdiv’).style.display != ‘none’) ? [...]

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Testing Flickr Blog Integration

May 24th, 2005 · 3 Comments · Things What Look Good, Web/Tech, Yahoo

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Legion of Honor at Night, originally uploaded by Yotowoti.
Super cool, if you’re a Flickr user you can go here to tell Flickr where your blog lives. Once you do that, whenever you’re browsing photos [...]

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Delivr: Web Postcards Using Flickr Photos

May 20th, 2005 · No Comments · Collaboration, Content, Community, Open Source, Things What Look Good, Web/Tech

Delivr is a cool new Web toy that lets you send postcards to your friends using Flickr photos.
It’s most excellent if you’re into the postcard thing, but it’s even cooler when you think of what’s behind all this — a boss API combined with some thoughtful attention to the intellectual property aspects of reuse (all [...]

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