Ryan MacMillan

chartAll
Generate charts from Google Spreadsheet data, text files, URLs, SQL servers etc. Not as graphically cute as they should be, and usability’s a bit web 1.0 - but - unlike Google Spreadsheets, you can embed charts into your own pages and services
(tags: math graphics tools service)

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I’m eager to get my grubby mitts on some of the bazillions of pounds that Tessa Jowell is “borrowing” from the nation’s art galleries in order to fund the Olympics, and a couple of news stories this week have given me some inspiration.
First of all there was the inaugural American National Cellphone Texting Championships, won [...]

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Those well-known web2.0 mavens and digital leets over at The City of London Corporation today switched on their wireless mesh, promising wireless access anywhere within the Square Mile. Obviously, it’s not free, though, don’t be silly. What would the point of that be, eh?
What is it with the UK and charging for wifi in public [...]

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NoteTag Screencast from Adobe
A Flex application using del.icio.us to store tags, and Blogger to store entries. It shows how new (complex and specialised) uses emerge for technologies designed for other purposes. And it illustrates the new component approach to web development.
(tags: web2 tagging tool flex blogs storage)

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We’ve installed the (quite useful) Popularity Contest plugin. It tracks all sorts of variables, and combines and weights them to come up with an overall “popularity” score. Here’s how it’s currently set up:

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This is leading to some peculiarities. I’m not convinced that Iain’s “p-books are still cool” article is, [...]

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