ARCHIVE October, 2008

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What is Adobe thinking not supporting new computers?

October 26, 2008

I just bought my new computer, an HP m9350f, a month ago and installed Firefox and Opera as part of my first day setup. I have a Netflix subscription that I use primarily to watch streaming movies, usually on my computer in the living room, not the one in my bedroom. Netflix only streams [...]

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Dan Grossman

October 23, 2008

MrLen wrote in September:
By the way, I think I see your name “somewhere” online once or twice a day (and I get around).. you remind me of that clone guy from the Matrix lol.
And earlier today, I found a post by “Young” about WP Review Site:
Shit….I practically started this whole web shit due [...]

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My new favorite snack

October 12, 2008

Melon pan from Maido in Narberth, PA. They make tasty okonomiyaki too.

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Maintenance Screens and Updates

October 10, 2008

“Web 2.0″ sites always have better maintenance screens when they go offline than big companies. PayPal smashed some red text in my face about site unavailability, while Lijit gives you a video to watch:

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WP Review Site 2.0

October 9, 2008

The second version of my most popular plugin for the WordPress blogging platform, WP Review Site adds Amazon-style ratings and reviews to posts and pages. It allows site visitors to leave reviews while rating items on a scale of 1 to 5 stars across a set of dimensions set by the site owner. WP [...]

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OpenCalais PHP Implementation

October 8, 2008

I provided the first freely available PHP interface to the OpenCalais semantic analysis web service. Calais takes text or HTML input and identifies facts, entities and relationships from that text through natural language analysis. I used this PHP5 class to offer the first two WordPress plugins to enable automatic tagging of posts and pages [...]

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W3Counter 4.0

October 7, 2008

W3Counter provides hosted real-time web stats for websites and blogs. Spun off from W3Counter in 2004, it’s been updated and enhanced each year to become more useful and relevant to changing needs. W3Counter now tracks millions of visitors per day across over 15,000 user websites, reporting on their activity in real-time and in aggregate, [...]

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Zune Social Plugin

October 5, 2008

The second release of the Microsoft Zune multimedia player hardware and software brought with it a music-centric social community called the Zune Social. I was the first to reverse engineer the Zune Social profile pages to export the Flash “badges” from the site and the XML data that fed these badges. I took that [...]