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latest 15 posts
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1.0Facebook v. Power Ventures
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1.22008 in review: iPhone apps
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1.2Looking to join smart, challenging team to change your Web
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3.1OpenSocial REST for social data interchange
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7.5Rewriting Twitter for web best practices
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2.5Syndication and Widgets Primer
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4.1Yahoo! Open Strategy launch
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6.7Better Design Through Code
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10.0Inside the iPhone App Store acceptance process
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7.3The story behind Google Chrome
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1.1Internet Explorer 8 Search Suggestions
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1.4Intel and Yahoo! announce Widget Channel for HDTV
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2.6Writing Flash for search engines
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5.5Google App Engine optimizations
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1.4Announcing Widget Summit 2008
Sunday January 4th, 2009
1.0
Facebook v. Power Ventures
From Niall Kennedy's Weblog, 6 days ago,
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Facebook filed eight legal complaints in United States federal court against Power Ventures, operators of social aggregator Power.com. Facebook claims Power collected Facebook usernames and passwords, stored Facebook data on their servers, used the Facebook trademark without license, sent e-mails posing as Facebook, and knowingly circumvented Facebook's attempts to block access.
Wednesday December 31st, 2008
1.2
2008 in review: iPhone apps
From Niall Kennedy's Weblog, 9 days ago,
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Content developed exclusively for the iPhone helped web publishers rethink content display beyond the desktop browser. Reimagining web content for small screens with bandwidth, latency, and interaction constraints provided publishers with an introduction to widget concepts and a broader web strategy. iPhone OS 2.0 ignited new mobile development in 2008, which should carry over to new platforms in 2009.
Wednesday December 10th, 2008
1.2
Looking to join smart, challenging team to change your Web
From Niall Kennedy's Weblog, 1 month ago,
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I have decided to once again seek full-time corporate employment. I miss being surrounded by smart people every day and the new synapses that light up in such an engaging environment. I have started talking to a few companies about working on difficult Web problems full-time as they strengthen their online business. What else is out there?
Tuesday December 9th, 2008
3.1
OpenSocial REST for social data interchange
From Niall Kennedy's Weblog, 1 month ago,
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Over the past few months the OpenSocial spec has grown to include JSON, Atom, and XML outputs over a RESTful interface. In this blog post I will provide a brief overview of OpenSocial RESTful protocols and its data implementation for any website interested in standardized descriptors of social data.
Wednesday November 19th, 2008
7.5
Rewriting Twitter for web best practices
From Niall Kennedy's Weblog, 1 month ago,
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Last week I decided to rewrite the Twitter.com front-end on Google App Engine to incorporate modern front-end programming best practices, exceptional performance, and establish a solid platform for further development. TwitterFE.com is a fully-functional read-only clone of Twitter.com designed to make your web browser sing. I created the site as an example of web development best practices anyone can integrate into their web presence.
Thursday November 6th, 2008
2.5
Syndication and Widgets Primer
From Niall Kennedy's Weblog, 2 months ago,
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Today's publishers need to think beyond the fixed location of their website and fully integrate with the large hubs of user activity on the desktop, mobile phone, social networks, blogs, and web pages at large. Syndication and widgets power new opportunities to carry content beyond the walls of a single site and into some of the largest brands in the world yet some publishers still haven't gotten the message. I recorded a 1-hour video presentation earlier this week to better explain the syndication and widget landscape to web publishers.
Thursday October 30th, 2008
4.1
Yahoo! Open Strategy launch
From Niall Kennedy's Weblog, 2 months ago,
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On Tuesday Yahoo! launched its Open Strategy, exposing Yahoo! account data and social connections to third-party developers. Yahoo! Open Strategy is the third pillar of faith announced by CEO Jerry Yang last year during the company's rebirth. Y!OS is the new glue connecting the next versions of Yahoo!'s own properties and will eventually power more relevant advertising across the network. In this post I will provide an overview of the new Yahoo! services and its impact on both Yahoo! and third-party developers. Yahoo! Open Strategy is one of the keynote presentations at Widget Summit next week.
Saturday October 4th, 2008
6.7
Better Design Through Code
From Niall Kennedy's Weblog, 3 months ago,
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Every day our web applications ignore useful visitor data. We respond to single request based on a domain and a path without listening to the capabilities, location, preferences, and favorite interactions of our visitors and their requesting agent. A few weeks ago I challenged a room full of designers at PARC to rethink what's possible on the Web and rely on adaptive programming techniques to serve the right content to the right audience at the right time. I titled the 50-minute talk "Better Design Through Code" and walk through latent capabilities of servers and browsers ready and waiting to deliver personalized, adaptive content to unique Web visitors.
Tuesday September 16th, 2008
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Inside the iPhone App Store acceptance process
From Niall Kennedy's Weblog, 3 months ago,
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Apple's relative secrecy regarding the iPhone platform and distribution policies have caused market uncertainties in need of some further clarity. In this post I will examine the iPhone OS 2.0 platform and the iPhone App Store from the point of view of Apple and other hosted storefront providers.
Wednesday September 3rd, 2008
7.3
The story behind Google Chrome
From Niall Kennedy's Weblog, 4 months ago,
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Google released its second web browser yesterday afternoon, adding additional headroom for web applications stretching the limits of what it's possible to accomplish within a web browser. The Google Chrome team assembled domain experts in various fields over the past six years, both through direct hires and acquisitions, to create a new browser and its critical components from scratch. GMail and Google Maps pushed the Web to its limits, taking advantage of browser technologies invented in Redmond but left dormant for far too long. Contributing to Firefox's core, writing browser extensions, and championing HTML could only take the $150 billion company so far: they needed to own the full browser to push their Web efforts forward at full speed.
Thursday August 28th, 2008
1.1
Internet Explorer 8 Search Suggestions
From Niall Kennedy's Weblog, 4 months ago,
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Microsoft has extended the OpenSearch protocol with a new search suggestions data formats expressed XML or JSON. The new format will display real-time search results, summaries, images, and even search result classifications inside the browser chrome for any site owner supplying the appropriate format. In this post I'll teach you how to add search suggestions to your OpenSearch description document for instant search suggestions in IE8.
Thursday August 21st, 2008
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Intel and Yahoo! announce Widget Channel for HDTV
From Niall Kennedy's Weblog, 4 months ago,
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The Internet is coming to your TV, reclaiming your split attention span from the other gadgets around the house. Intel announced its latest effort to power your living room yesterday with new media processors, reference designs, and software stacks that may eventually find their way into the cable boxes, Blu-ray players, and home media centers of 2010. Intel partnered with Yahoo! to deliver Internet-connected widgets, advertising, and content to potential partners with a software stack branded The Widget Channel. What new opportunities are available inside the Widget Channel platform? When is the right time to implement?
Monday July 28th, 2008
2.6
Writing Flash for search engines
From Niall Kennedy's Weblog, 5 months ago,
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On June 30 Adobe announced a partnership with Google and Yahoo! to better index SWF content on the Web. Search engines can now look inside the binary SWF format to extract text, links, and possible actions. In this post I will take a deeper look at search engine Flash interpreters and provide a few tips for successful indexing.
Tuesday July 8th, 2008
5.5
Google App Engine optimizations
From Niall Kennedy's Weblog, 6 months ago,
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I have learned a few App Engine best practices over over the past month and would like to share some best practices for App Engine development gained mostly through trial and error. In this post I will share data optimization tips for Google's hosted Bigtable instance, reduce the errors and resource usage of your application, and add a few steps to your deployment checklist.
Tuesday July 1st, 2008
1.4
Announcing Widget Summit 2008
From Niall Kennedy's Weblog, 6 months ago,
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I am hosting a my third annual Widget Summit conference November 3rd and 4th at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco.