Using tel: Telephone URLs in iCal Events

[NOTE: I'm still trying to figure this out, but here is my current best understanding; please leave a comment if you have additional information]. A useful trick not many people know is that you can embed a telephone URL in an iCal entry, to make it easy for people attending to call-in.  This is especially... Continue Reading →

Google Chrome: First impressions

[not a real review, just a place for me to take notes] Reasonably fast. Of course, I never use Windows normally, so I don't have a good baseline, but at least the process-per-tab thingie isn't overly obnoxious. They should've called it "Tabby" or something, since that's the overriding design theme The OmniBox is surprisingly useful... Continue Reading →

Sproutin’ Ideas

I had the pleasure of recently meeting Charles Jolley, best known for his work as CEO of Sproutit. This gave birth to a hot new JavaScript framework/Rails plug-in known as Sproutcore, which for some reason never showed up on the Google searches.  Hopefully this blog post will help raise its profile. 🙂

Twitter gets Microformatted

With help from Chris Messina, Twitter has added microformat support, specifically: hAtom (for the post stream) hCard (for user information) XFN (for the friends list) rel="me" (on the URL links in personal pages) It seems like the revolution will be twittered. 🙂

I never metadata I didn’t like…

Apologies for the bad "Will Rogers meets Brent Spiner" pun. This is to introduce two terms I coined recently: paradata -- metadata inferred based on other metadata For example, knowing that an email from me has a connection to Elk Grove because you have an vCard (somewhere else) that tells you that Ernest Prabhakar lives... Continue Reading →

AHAH — They’ve Got It!

I am pleased to see that the AJAX-alternative meme "AHAH" -- which I co-developed with Kevin Marks and David Hansson -- has started getting significant airplay, highlighted in a recent microformats blog entry: So if you?ve been wondering what this AJAX stuff is about, take a look at AHAH, you might find it gets you... Continue Reading →

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