Monthly Archives: May 2009

links for 2009-05-12

By Gary Burge | Published: May 12, 2009
Pushpin Collections Free PushPin datasets and map layers (tags: PushPin map layers census counties zipcodes) Pushpin Location REST API Documentation: Beta The Location REST API is a fast, convenient way to retrieve location and statistical information about places. This early version of the API focuses only on places that are administratively-defined within the USA (states, [...]
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links for 2009-05-11

By Gary Burge | Published: May 11, 2009
Amplify Open API Home Amplify is a web service based upon patented linguistic technology. This technology, sometimes described as Natural Language Processing (NLP), permits Amplify to automatically analyze any textual information and surface its meaning: not just simple things like topics, but the emotions, styles, actions, intentions, and even clues as to the demographics of [...]
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links for 2009-05-08

By Gary Burge | Published: May 8, 2009
James Smith • loopj.com » Blog Archive » jQuery Plugin: Tokenizing Autocomplete Text Entry This is a jQuery plugin to allow users to select multiple items from a predefined list, using autocompletion as they type to find each item. You may have seen a similar type of text entry when filling in the recipients field [...]
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links for 2009-05-06

By Gary Burge | Published: May 6, 2009
Live Streaming Video API StreamAPI is the easiest and most cost effective way to incorporate live streaming video into your website or application. (tags: StreamAPI Stickam video streaming libraries Flash) Developers: Never Mind the APIs, Here's YQL Execute – ReadWriteWeb Yahoo!, chiefly to serve the needs of its own engineers, has been developing a sophisticated [...]
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links for 2009-05-05

By Gary Burge | Published: May 5, 2009
MPs Expenses by Constituency (Sort Of…) « OUseful.Info, the blog… created another map that I didn’t post at the time, partly becuase it’s very approximate, but it does demonstrate something I haven’t logged on OUseful.info before – how to do overlays on Google maps… (tags: OUseful GoogleMaps overlays maps) Uxebu.com – JavaScript addicts » JSONP [...]
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links for 2009-05-01

By Gary Burge | Published: May 1, 2009
Handy tips to help you out | Think Vitamin Tips including geo-spatial calculations in MySQL. (tags: PHP MySQL geo spacial searches)
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  • About Gary Burge

    I am an experieced web programmer, techno-activist, romantic idealist, who never quite left the sixties, even though I became quite successful in the Internet space.

    My business philosphy is different now than when I toiled in the bigco world. About a decade ago I experienced a life-altering epiphany: I was sacrificing my personal life and health to feed a corporate monster.

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