Here’s a little video that we’ve seen at Arvind’s and Sreeram’s presentation about speeding up the web at the Google Developer Day 2009 conference in Moscow. Inspiring isn’t it? Arvind and Sreeram talked about a very nice plugin for Firefox (built upon Firebug) which is called Page Speed, developed and maintained by the Googlers. You may read more about the plugin on...
Google Developer Day Moscow 2009
Okay it’s official, I AM going to be at Google Developer Day on the 10th of November in Moscow. I’ve got my business cards delivered yesterday, and yeah, they could have been a little bit better, but it’s alright. I posted them out on Twitter yesterday evening, if anybody’s missed it here’s the picture: twitpic.com/odnkt. Quite simple heh? Anyways, I haven’t...
Google Docs API: Client Login with PHP and Curl
A few days ago I started looking deeper into the Google Code APIs and threw a few experiments using the Google Documents List Data API. Unfortunately, the only library they have for the third version of their protocol is written in Java. There is a PHP wrapper for the first version of the protocol, but it totally depends on the Zend Framework. Here’s a little code snippet for logging into a...
Foller.me: An Insight on Followers Geography
Hello everyone. Very busy week here and more good news! I have been asked about the future of Foller.me by many friends from Twitter and e-mail and IM, so I thought I’d share my thoughts here in public. Foller.me is going quite good although there are a couple of bugs and issues that haven’t been solved yet, but we’re working on it very hard. The future? Well, that’s...
Foller.me has Launched!
I’m glad to announce that Foller.me has launched today!! Hurray! We’ve already got some cool articles, shoutouts and tweets about the start, and more to (hopefully) come this night. Actually, some of them were written yesterday – timezones issue I guess. Anyway, we’ve reached our first goal yesterday night – 1000 unique profile views and most of our first few fans...
URL Shorteners and the Linkrot Apocalypse
First of all I’d like to thank you all for your support on the Twitter Friendly Links plugin for WordPress. It started out as a fairly simple URL shortener tool. Now it’s got loads of new options and some compatibility fixes. Keep the suggestions coming :) Today I came across a bunch of articles about link relations, the way Google and other search engines treat them, and the way a...
A Reason to Love TwitScoop
As many of you have already heard, Gmail servers have been down lately and Twitter was there to prove this. Instead of asking “Is it me or is Gmail offline” you could have just looked at the TwitScoop realtime cloud and remain silent, or perhaps tweet some “Experiencing problems with #gmail too…” just to keep up the trends. Wonderful, huh? I’m also glad that...
I'm on Friend Connect!
I’ve finally found some time to setup a Google Friend Connect profile for my website, it was pretty easy by the way, so you should create one as well. And if you do, make sure you connect to my profile. Oh, and I tweeted out my ICQ number and e-mail address yesterday to public. It took me around 20 seconds to realize I did that, and around 5 seconds to remove it. Question – should I...
Google Maps and UTF-8
I bet everyone’s already using the UTF-8 encoding for all their pages. Well, windows-1251 remains the most popular russian encoding, although many people have realized that 1251 won’t go far. I’ve been binding some Google Maps to a cp1251 page and hadn’t had any trouble viewing it through mozilla firefox and opera browsers, but when I switched to internet explorer, I had...
FeedBurner and Google AdSense
All of you know what RSS is and why feeds should go through FeedBurner. Most of you also heard that Google has aquired FeedBurner so you shouldn’t be scared when FeedBurner will ask for your Google account details. Anyways, I’ve been using FeedBurner for quite some time now and I definately don’t regret it. Some writers don’t like posting full articles to FeedBurner for...