Of late, I’ve come across two very evil symptons of Flickr, which I think Yahoo must address.
The first is that people who paid (or received free accounts) on Flickr can no longer download their own pictures unless they agree to pay Yahoo! $25/yr forever. Although not a lot of money, this is clear extortion […]
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Alec Saunders’s Iotum has come up with a free conference calling Facebook app. This isn’t new, but until this week, I didn’t see the value. They have four video walk-thrus that demonstrate some high end broadcasting capabilities. I’m gonna play with it in the next week and report back.
http://apps.facebook.com/freeconference/landinghttp://www.facebook.com/video/?id=17733760018
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Rogers Cadenhead just released a new Web application called Meme13 that highlights the last 13 sites that made their TechMeme debut.
http://www.meme13.com/
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Ya, I’m really bored these days. Today, I wrote a generic XML Schema validator. Eventually, I want to expand this to validate common forms of XML like Google’s sitemap. But, I noticed that each version of sitemap XML has it’s own namespace. What a nightmare!
http://reblinks.therssweblog.com/xsd.validator.aspx
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Today, I put together a smll RSS autodiscovery checker to compliment the other tools on Reblinks. Supply the RSS 2.0 feed address and it checks if the <channel/link> element points to a page which has auto-discovery that reflects back to the original RSS feed address.
http://reblinks.therssweblog.com/tools.aspx#disco
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Everytime I need an XML well-formedness checker, I can’t find one. So, I wrote one. Untested 67 lines of code.
http://reblinks.therssweblog.com/tools.aspx
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I was looking for a countdown widget and most all of them I stumbled on didn’t work very well and many didn’t work at all. I finally decided on the yourminis.com countdown widget. Not great, but at least it works.
http://www.yourminis.com/minis/yourminis/yourminis/mini:countdown
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One of the least taken advantage of features in Facebook that doesn’t require much work is the Facebook Share Partners. This is a link that when clicked shares the current page on the users Facebook profile.
http://www.facebook.com/share_partners.php
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Scott Hanselman has a great enumeration of the best Web 2.0 APIs (ya I know, Web 2.0 is so yesterday); Flickr, Digg, Facebook, Windows Live, YouTube, GData, MetaWeblogAPI, Twitter. He also points to a bunch of wrappers for the APIs. Link via Peter Dawson.
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I just realized that SpringWidgets also does podcast. I simply injected my sports talkcast into their RSS widget and all the magic happened. Here’s a sample.
Get this widget!
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