Tag Archives: Google App Engine

Experiment: Browser Based Geolocation – HTML5 Points the Future of the Web

January 5, 2010 – 8:13 pm

The adoption of HTML5 and its surrounding cast of powerful new features is going to be a huge boon to web users and points towards a very positive direction for the future of the web. From the smoother interfaces of canvas, local storage enabling offline modes for online email programs and the like seamlessly, [...]

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Best Buy speaks Google App Engine at Google I/O 2009

June 2, 2009 – 12:05 pm

I was very excited to not just attend but be a part of Google I/O 2009, Google’s annual developer conference. A Best Buy contingent of Steve Bendt, Gary Koelling and myself as well as uber developers Curtis Thompson and Thomas Bombach made the trip and were part of the Developer Sandbox.
I/O’s Key Points
The keynotes (day [...]

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Problem Solving: Get Google App Engine working on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

May 3, 2009 – 8:10 am

By default the Google App Engine SDK doesn’t run on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackelope)… You can fix it!

After a little searching I noticed neither posts about this issue nor a quick fix were top of the Google rankings… hoping to resolve that with this post and get all of us Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) users up [...]

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The Birth of ConnectTweet – Combining Your Voices on Twitter

February 11, 2009 – 11:46 am

ConnectTweet is a simple utility built under the concept [reality in my opinion] that all groups, companies or brands are just collections of many people whose passion, ideas and behavior completely shape it. Often those people’s voices are drowned out in communications by a need to feel “official” instead making it feel robotic, monochromatic and [...]

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All feedback is good feedback… especially when it’s from Tim O’Reilly! – retweetradar.com

December 28, 2008 – 9:07 am

Saturday afternoon Robert Scoble sent out a simple tweet letting people know he popped up on the retweetradar (much appreciated Robert!), we had been talking about use of interesting metadata, for instance retweeted information, possibly being used to rank quality posts on Twitter in the comments of his blog posts about a better Twitter Search.

Then [...]

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retweetradar.com – One days work from concept to launch with Google App Engine… Scobleized!

December 22, 2008 – 12:09 pm

So I was getting a little restless and decided to work on another Google App Engine app, this time without all the Python learning curve and with some real world experience with the Google tools under the belt from http://spy.appspot.com. The goal was to see how fast I could go from concept to useful application [...]

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Can Making Social Media a Spectator Sport Move it to the Mainstream? – Why I Created spy.appspot.com.

August 5, 2008 – 9:23 am

There is much conversation among bloggers lately about targeting early adopters versus the mainstream, as Scoble would say the passionates versus the non-passionates, should we be excited when the early adopters love our product or service but the masses don’t understand it?
No, we shouldn’t we need to find ways that show the value of what [...]

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