Google AJAX Feed API
I read Udi Dahan's post on how Google's Ajax API Simplifies Safe Mashups. It didn't take 5 minutes to take Google's "Hello World" AJAX Feed API example and embed into a web page of my own. This is fun...
View ArticleJudgment vs. Jealousy: Jadon on Twitter
After hearing so much talk about Twitter on the blogs, podcasts, and vlogs I read, hear, and watch, I decided I had to know what the fuss was about: http://twitter.com/Jadon. How do I manage to find...
View ArticleWorking on an Amazon EC2 AMI for the Maemo SDK (scratchbox on Ubuntu)
I'll get into why I want to create this Amazon EC2 AMI thing later, but I thought I'd get information out there on a problem I'm having. Tve did a nice write-up on RightScale on bundling-up an ubuntu...
View ArticleBoot your N800 Maemo SDK today with Amazon's EC2
I really appreciate that someone has created VMWare and QEMU images for running the Maemo SDK. Unfortunately, my machines, both Mac and PC, are typically too busy with other stuff to allow me to...
View ArticleBarCampHouston
I'm heading up to BarCampHouston today. I don't know what to expect and I haven't had any free time whatsoever, so I won't put on much of a demo or presentation. I'll be happy to share any info on P2P...
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Still don't get the whole WebOS thing?
I've gotten a bit smarter about explaining why there will be a sort of emerging web operating system to the people who inquire. For example, I've started calling it a "web services kit", instead of an...
View ArticleNo server, no satisfaction
There's just no satisfaction for the casual home user who wants to collaborate with friends. Even when dealing with a problem that has been solved many times over, it is really difficult without a...
View ArticleMobile 2.0 Conference
I'm thinking about trying to attend the Mobile 2.0 Conference on October 15th in San Francisco. Anyone have comments about this event? If there were a handful of people interested in chatting about how...
View ArticleAccessibility is the killer mashup/webos application
After watching Douglas Crockford (of Yahoo and JavaScript fame)plea for Google, Microsoft, and others to participate in a mashup summit and reading some of the feedbackaround the web, I realized the...
View ArticleN810 demo video from Nokia
Nothing too special about the web page, but the video gives lots of good angles and pictures of accessories. Sure would be nice if they used that GPS and a database to help find some WiFi hotspots. Too...
View ArticleBlogger Beta Ships OpenID
Google has added new login options to Blogger, including OpenID. This is an important additional baby step towards a web with a single sign-on that allows you to have better control of your identity...
View ArticleCriticism of the OLPC XO-1 concept
In John C. Dvorak's PC Magazine article "One Laptop per Child Doesn't Change the World", he writes:Does anyone but me see the OLPC XO-1 as an insulting "let them eat cake" sort of message to the...
View ArticleBug Labs device was cooler than I expected
At CES this week, I managed to stop by the Bug Labs demo, which ended up winning an award for the best emerging technology. I've been hearing about this device for months from co-workers and I'd...
View ArticleWhere is the Jazelle-RCT open source solution?
Ugh. There is too much noise around open source virtual machines, including almost 16,000 projects on SourceForge.The PhoneME, Android, or other open source JavaVM projects must be looking to support...
View ArticleHello? Jabber was designed for cloud computing
I just read Marshall Kirkpatrick's Read/Write Web post Could Instant Messaging (XMPP) Power the Future of Online Communication?. Despite his apparent bemusement with the "the rise of XMPP (called...
View ArticleCould Pandora open up Linux games?
They say the Open Pandora (P&|A) handheld gaming device compares in power to a Nintendo GameCube, and will offer full-speed Playstation and N64 emulation. How does the GameCube compare to other...
View ArticleHeading to LugRadio Live
You almost can't call it a business trip, but I will be filing an expense report...Go to LugRadio Live USA 2008, 12-13 April, San Francisco! Watch this, then spread the word!
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TI-Open-Source-Workshop-TIDEVCON08
TI-Open-Source-Workshop-Jason-Kridner-TIDEVCON08 Originally uploaded by shutter_nutI've mostly given up on trying to be relatively anonymous on this blog. I figure that people who know me already know...
View ArticleOpen source on TI devices
I happen to like this article, TI targets Linux and open source with new OMAP chips, but I certainly have gotten the message "more patches, less powerpoints". We'll see over the next few months...
View ArticleMaking the connection between Gears, GreaseMonkey, JXTA, and OpenID
A while back, I wrote-up a "Collaborative GreaseMonkey" patent disclosure. It was a defensive measure to make sure no one else patented the idea and prevented the rest of us from using it. The...
View ArticleAdding a URL to 'gitweb'
It is as simple as creating a 'cloneurl' file in the git repository directory, just like you can add a 'description' file.This took about 7 minutes of exploring the CGI code of gitweb to find, which...
View ArticleCoining a phrase, the Contextual Web
I was getting started writing up a "master paper" to serve as a guideline for submissions to several conferences this year, including Lug Radio Live USA. In this paper, I planned to coin a phrase, "The...
View ArticleGoogle kills Blogger Web Comments
Often I find websites where people are just being stupid and need to be told so. In those cases, I don't think relying on the ignorant host of the site to provide a comment page to let me tell him how...
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Node.JS-based Cloud9 JavaScript IDE running on a BeagleBoard
Yesterday, I decided I was going to get Cloud9 running on my BeagleBoard. I didn't document every step, but below are a few helpful hints. I'm working with a recent Angstrom Distribution build with...
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Processing and Processing-JS on the BeagleBoard under Angstrom
After reading the blog post about the serial port challenges in Processing and the method for fixing them, I decided to download the IDE and try it myself. It seems to work reasonably well. I haven't...
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