entries in everything for 2008/02/06

Joiku - JoikuSpot Light Beta

06 February 2008 in links
tagged with [hotspot] [mobile] [nokia] [wifi] [wireless] (edit)

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JoikuSpot is a free mobile software solution that turns Nokia Smartphones to WLAN HotSpots

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http://www.joiku.com/?action=products&mode=productDetails...

Released Shelf 0.0.11

06 February 2008 in blog
tagged with [macos] [release] [shelf] [software] (edit)

So, I have a new release of Shelf, having finally been inspired to put a bit of effort into the scary refactorings I was putting off. It’s internally much better than the last one, though I still have places I can take it. Feature-wise, it’s only a little better, though. Feeds look nicer. It should be fast, and caches the contents of remote feeds better, so it’ll thrash the network less.

The big thing is the Google Social Graph integration. Disabled by default, because it’s a privacy nightmare, I can ask Google who the current page in our web browser belongs to, to found out a person to display in Shelf. Once I’ve got a person, I can also ask Google what other URLs they advertise about themselves, so you no longer have to stuff dozens of URLs into your Address Book cards just to see interesting things about people. Looking at Brad’s homepage is a good torture test..

I’m alwo working towards making Simon happier, with a couple of preferences determining how the window should be displayed. It’s not all the way there yet, but I’m moving..

Get the full release notes here.

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Irritating RSS feed links

06 February 2008 in blog
tagged with [discovery] [feed] [googlesocialapi] [rss] [shelf] (edit)

A side-effect of all this Google Social lunacy is that I’m seeing a lot of URLs for people that I wouldn’t normally have put in their Address Book entries. For instance, Simon Wistow’s Vox page links to his gestalt page which in turn links to his use.perl page, so I see all of these URLs in Shelf. It fetches the pages, and discovers that there’s a single RSS feed advertised on the use.perl page - http://use.perl.org/index.rss. But this RSS feed is nothing to do with Simon’s page - it’s the main use.perl article feed. Shelf doesn’t know this, of course, so Simon’s display in my Shelf window contains all recent use.perl articles.

The HTML spec seems to imply to me that rel=”alternate” links are for linking to the same content, but represented in a different way, not some completely unrelated content that happens to be hosted on the same domain. This is very annoying.

I’m picking on use.perl unreasonably here, of course. Lots of people do it. use.perl is just the first one I noticed. Followed by search.cpan.org (author modules pages have an RSS feed of the master module upload list). But there are others.

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