Entries for Wednesday, March 5, 2008
➠ March 5, 2008
My first FireEagle query
About 10 lines of Python can now work out my physical location.
Next task, integrate this info into my blog. Task after that? A cool ambient location-setter idea I'm hatching.
Fire Eagle
Fire Eagle has launched — a broker for your physical location, which other applications can use to improve user experiences. It’s really just APIs and geekery at the moment, but the applications that use and enable it will start appearing pretty quickly — I’ve already got a couple of ideas.
Open AIM | dev.aol.com
AOL have opened up the AIM protocol for reals, documenting the protocol and encouraging, rather than barely-tolerating, third-party AIM clients. I’d rather deal with XMPP, but this is an interesting step forward.
Eddie Izzard doing a US stand-up tour: http://rdbgb.us/izz Presale password is “strip”
Posted to Twitter at 1:32 p.m.
Congrats to @mojodna, @plasticbag, et al for the FireEagle launch. Already buzzing with ideas on how to use it.
Posted to Twitter at 12:17 p.m.
Trying to kickstart my brain, which has been foggy for days. Hello Red Bull.
Posted to Twitter at 10:15 a.m.
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