Flickr, the coolest on-line photo site there is, has always encouraged outside developers to build their own applications that utilize the massive Flickr public database.  I have had a Flickr account like forever, before Yahoo bought them — and have used some WordPress – Flickr plug-ins that utilized the API.  But the problem was you had to find the apps yourself, spread around on developers own web pages.  Well Flickr just launched a new page that provides an easy way to find apps.  I found a cool Facebook app that will display my latest Flickr uploads on my Facebook page — very handy.

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I just signed up for a new forum service on building the Herreshoff boat Rozinante.  Wouldn’t it be cool if when you signed up for something like this,  you could tell it to figure out who you are from all your other social network memberships?  Glen Jones has an article on A List Apart, showcasing a new javascript library he’s created that does exactly that?  It might feel a little creepy when you see what it can get – try it out here — but it is all available to someone via Google anyhow.  And it seems to me that this ability to be recognized as an option, utilizing all your existing social capital would be an attractive option for users — maybe students using a university-based social network system (like buddypress?)  Some interesting possibilities here…

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Do you still keep track of the how many kilobytes, or even megabytes, your web pages are delivering to the customer?  Back in the day of dial-up modems your minimized files sizes or perished.  But not that we all have speedy cable/dsl connections does it matter anymore?  I think so, and here’s why: Read the rest of this entry »

Why is the Creative Commons idea important?  What is Creative Commons?  I’m not sure I can give it to you in a twitter-like 140 characters, but I’ll try for the elevator speech.  Did you know that under current US copyright law and content you post on the internet is automatically copyrighted?  In fact anything you publish in some fixed format is automatically copyrighted, whether you actually intend to copyright it or not.  But what if you want to encourage people to use your ideas, expand on them, and use them to build new ideas/artwork/music or whatever type of creative expression?  Enter Creative Commons.

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It has now been a couple of weeks with the new Blackberry Storm.  And while I am getting used to its quirks I still agree with the statement — ” the  Blackberry Storm sucks.”  Sure it looks nice, and plenty of people have asked me about it.  In fact I really want it to be better, and it has some promising pieces.  But overall the ’sucks’ rating is well deserved.

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New York’s Museum of Modern art has a new website that is socially aware…

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