Archives for the month of: September, 2006

Public APIs are everywhere. Google has its search, maps and GoogleBase APIs, Yahoo has its own series of APIs from Yahoo! Maps to Financial Data, to photos, let’s not forget Flickr, BlinkSale and Basecamp. (more…)

Mike just sent me a link to this great song by Jonathan Coulton, check it out at http://www.myspace.com/jonathancoulton

I’m currently amidst a blog redesign. I upgraded to the latest WordPress release, and figured I’d refresh the theme while I was at it. I’ll be starting to use asides as well as finishing up the work section with a shiney new Yahoo! UI carousel component.

With a new season around the corner, we decided to launch the latest set of feature enhancements over at SensNation. Some features I worked on over the summer include:

  • YouTube video integration
  • Charter Member Status / Rewards
  • T-Shirts
  • Ottawa Senators Wiki
  • free SensNation.net email addresses

I wasn’t really surprised to note that earlier this week Michael Cowpland’s company ZIM announced they would be partnering with the Chinese company PPLive. With earnings down, and ZIMs SMS sales on the decline (a visit to their bulk SMS site mentioned that “We regret to inform you that www.zimsms.com is no longer available.
All unused credits must be used by September 30, 2006. Kindly
note that if you fail to use your credits, no refund will be issued.” It seems like another bandwagon they could try and scramble onto, much like his forray into Linux with Corel Linux when Linux was the talk of the town, an Office Suite – Corel Office, purchased from Novell, and his later jump to ZIM with SMS. (more…)