Tag Archives: Google App Engine

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

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Ben

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Ben

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Ben

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 … Continue reading →

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The Birth of ConnectTweet – Combining Your Voices on Twitter

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Ben

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on December 28, 2008 by Ben

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 … Continue reading →

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

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Ben

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. … Continue reading →

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

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Ben

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 … Continue reading →

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