This evening TokBox launched a new platform that enables Web developers to embed live video conferencing into their Web sites. This is an incredibly exciting product and I’m sure it’s something that a lot of sites are going to take advantage of.
TokBox provides all the challenging bits to make this happen; all a web developer [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Work'
Tokbox: A Platform for Adding Live Video Chat to Your Web Site
November 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Platforms, Web/Tech, Work
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CodeLesson ♥ Etsy
November 1st, 2010 · 1 Comment · CodeLesson, Web/Tech, Work
Today we announced A Gentle Introduction to the Etsy API. This course is an important milestone for CodeLesson for two reasons:
It’s the first CodeLesson course produced by someone other than us. The curriculum and instructor will be provided by Etsy; we’re handling the details of getting students registered, hosting the learning software, setting up shell [...]
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What’s Happening on CodeLesson
October 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · CodeLesson, Web/Tech, Work
Our mighty mighty online learning site, CodeLesson, continues to astound and amaze us as it slowly consumes my entire career forevermore. Here’s what’s going on with the site today:
My PHP course is proceeding apace. We are in week six of the course and no one’s brain has exploded yet. (At the same time I’m also [...]
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How Do You Solve A Problem Like Yahoo?
October 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Work, Yahoo
On his blog Jeremy Zawodny poses an open question regarding Yahoo’s malaise:
The less obvious problem is a deeper cultural issue. It’s an institutionalized lack of accountability that makes it easy to blame others (upper management, other product teams, “market forces”, and so on) for things that don’t happen.
Of course you can acquire your way to [...]
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AOL/Yahoo! Sure, Whatever.
October 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Work, Yahoo
I’m not enthusiastic about flogging this sickly horse; if you guys want to merge your businesses, you know, knock yourselves out.
Both companies should have been taken private years ago so they have some breathing room to reinvent themselves without having to worry about the innovation-killing tyranny of quarterly earnings growth. Maybe a hostile takeover of [...]
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Upcoming CodeLesson Courses
October 10th, 2010 · No Comments · CodeLesson, Web/Tech, Work
It’s hard to believe it’s been less than six weeks since we’ve launched CodeLesson. The response to the site has been terrific and we’re having some enlightening conversations with students, instructors and others about what they want to see from the site.
My CodeLesson PHP course is in progress, and it’s going really well. It’s a [...]
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Updated Virtual Hosting Buyer’s Guide
September 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Amazon, Virtualization, Work
I updated the virtual hosting buyer’s guide that I’ve been maintaining for a while now; I also gave it its own permalink so I wouldn’t have to keep looking at old posts on this blog to figure out where the data resided. It now lives at http://blog.jeffreymcmanus.com/projects/hosting.
Today’s big news is Amazon’s announcement of EC2 Micro [...]
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Our New Product: CodeLesson
August 24th, 2010 · No Comments · CodeLesson, Collaboration, Content, Community, Work
Just realized I haven’t made mention of our new product CodeLesson here yet (if you’re a Twitter or Facebook follower this will probably be old hat to you). CodeLesson is a place to take instructor-led online training courses. We’re doing technology courses today ’cause that’s mostly what we know, but later on we’ll be doing [...]
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In Which I Do Various Interesting Things with Various Fine Universities
March 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Web/Tech, Work
In the last six months I’ve been doing a few things with a number of universities:
I’ve been teaching a web design and management course for University of Victoria.
I just started teaching a similar course on web development for Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Both of the classes I’m teaching are online which makes the [...]
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Yahoo Pulls Plug on Shopping API
January 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Platforms, Web/Tech, Work, Yahoo
I’ve been getting a few pings from folks regarding Yahoo’s plans to transition its Shopping property to a third party. My team at Yahoo launched the Shopping API in August 2005 (although I don’t work for Yahoo anymore so I can’t provide insider answers on what’s going on here).
Since the new partner service (PriceGrabber) apparently [...]
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