Dear Foursquare, After 550 check-ins to date, primarily via SMS, I have a wish list of enhancements that would make Foursquare via SMS so much easier to use. First a little background. I’m a huge fan of the service and want it to succeed, but the SMS experience is frustrating at best. The biggest problem is getting [...]
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Getting Started With Windows 7 Gadgets
I spent the last few days playing with gadgets in Windows 7 and learning the basics to build one. The basic structure is surprisingly simple, requiring only an XML configuration file and a HTML file for the UI and logic. Gadgets are actually just little web applications running inside of Internet Explorer, so they can [...]
How To Use The Foursquare API With OAuth And PHP
I started playing with the Foursquare API and one of the first things you need to do is figure out how to authenticate with Foursquare to make calls to the API. It took me awhile to figure this out and start making successful calls, so I thought others could benefit from a detailed tutorial. The [...]
Thoughts On Eat.ly
Eat.ly is a new web service that lets you “track, share and discover food.” It’s basically a photo blog, similar to DailyBooth, but focused around food. You take photos of what you eat, provide a few details and email them to Eat.ly for publishing. I’m intrigued by it because it’s simple, visual, social and nicely [...]
56K Modems, The National Broadband Plan And Google’s Fiber Network
The other weekend I was pulling apart and reconfiguring some old PCs. I pulled out a 56K modem from one PC and it made me stop and think about how long it’s been since I used one. I was first able to use broadband around 2001. Broadband infrastructure has come a long way in the [...]
