Written on October 3, 2006 at 4:15 pm, by Chris
An interesting followup to my post on the electricity pricing API, Washington-based GridPoint just announced $21M backing from Goldman Sachs for their energy storage appliances – devices that draw and store electricity during off-peak hours for use during peak hours. The VentureWire article talks about how Gridpoint is changing their focus from consumer devices toContinue Reading
Written on September 26, 2006 at 12:39 am, by Chris
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.
Written on September 18, 2006 at 7:00 am, by Chris
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.
Written on September 15, 2006 at 7:03 pm, by Chris
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. AllContinue Reading
Written on September 11, 2006 at 2:02 am, by Chris
The makers of my favourite javascript library moo.ajax, and moo.fx have released their own modular library that brings moo.fx and moo.ajax together called Mootools. It takes the good bits from Prototype, JQuery and moo and packs into a tiny package. What’s really cool is their dynamic downloader that will generate a custom build and evenContinue Reading