I just completed the WP Calais Auto Tagger plugin, the obvious first use of my Open Calais Tags class. It adds a tag suggestion box to your WordPress post writing screen which suggests tags based on your post content using the Open Calais API. The suggestions can be added to the post’s tag list with [...]
In addition to a visual overhaul, WordPress 2.5 added several new plugin hooks, including a widgetized dashboard. The new Blog Stats Plugin for WordPress adds blog stats to the dashboard, and makes integrating the tracking code into a theme simple. It’s also the first use of W3Counter’s “visitor labeling” I previewed in October (spooky visitor [...]
Calais is a free web service from Clearforest, a Reuters company, that can perform semantic analysis on any English text. It uses natural language processing to extract concepts and relationships from the text. It’s been around for a few months, but there’s been very little developer activity around it, and even fewer completed applications using [...]
Inspired by this article at Read/Write Web, I decided to make a search engine out of one of my bookmark collections. Discover Semantic searches about 70 sites dealing with the semantic web (aka “web 3.0″). It covers W3 recommendations, specifications, tools, tutorials, and dozens of blogs about semweb. If nothing else, it was interesting to [...]
A new report I’m considering adding to W3Counter is a “Live Map” — a Google map that shows visitors arriving to your website in real-time. It updates every 3 seconds with an AJAX call, instantly recenting the map on each new visitor and popping up their information. I’ve had fun staring at it for half [...]
I’ve been thinking about Twine a lot recently. I see a lot of potential in the semantic web and I think a lot of people will be thinking that way once Twine is here. Smarter systems that start learning from our siloed information all over the web and on our desktop, then start making intelligent [...]
With room to grow once again, I’ve been working on the other features I planned for W3Counter back in the fall. The main task, which I hope will allow me to sell to bigger customers than my normal $5/month individual webmaster, is providing private instances of the entire service. The plan is to have three [...]
Like every year since spinning off W3Counter from Website Goodies in 2004, it’s exceeded its hardware capacity once again in December. Initially the service shared a Celeron 2.4/512MB server with all of my websites. It then grew into its own Pentium 4 3.0GHz/1GB server, then into a 2-processor 4-core Opteron/4GB setup. This time it’s outgrown [...]
I sniffed around the Flash enough to realize where it’s grabbing its data and can now parse that directly for info like the last songs I’ve listened to or those I’ve marked as favorites. I wrapped that up into another WordPress plugin that includes the Zune Card widget from the last. So, this single Zune [...]
Today the 2nd-generation Zunes are officially for sale. That means the awesome new client software is here, along with firmware updates for current Zunes. Even more exciting for a Zune owner like myself, the Zune Social site has also arrived. One feature of the site is the Zune Card, a shareable Flash widget that displays [...]
