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Whos Amung Us

Here is a cool little Javascript tool from Who’s Amung Us. Notice the numbered box in the right sidebar above the RSS Subscribe button. This box will tell you how many concurrent users are on this site at this time.
Check out Who’s Amung Us to get yours.
Thanks to TheYoungGuy over at HardwareBlogPortal for turning me on to this one.
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April 18th, 2007 - By David

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Web Programming

Years ago I started programming in ASP (Active Server Pages). This was a great language and was fairly easy to migrate into. However, the “cost of inclusion” was rather high. It was a Microsoft language and required of course that you be hosted on a Microsoft platform server. Then Microsoft decided to upgrade ASP to ASP.net. At that point they lost me. With the advent of Linux and the world of open source it just did not make any sense to stick with something that required so much overhead. Another key downside was the database programming required either SQL [...]


April 12th, 2007 - By David

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Google BlogBar

I have installed a Google BlogBar at the top of the page.
I set this BlogBar up using the BlogBar Wizard and did not modify any of the code. For now I used “CyberCoder” as the only keyword. It will rotate through the most relevant blog posts it finds in Google Blogsearch.
The Google AJAX Search API Team (led by Mark Lucovsky) has done an excellent job with this software since starting it up back in May 2006.
If you have not tried any of the software in this API, you should. It’s easy to install and can add some very nice features [...]


April 9th, 2007 - By David

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Google Voice Local Search

Google has released their voice local search called Goog-411, and it works great !
There has been some mention of this in the past, but this appears to be the first “experimental” release.
I tried it immediately and was very impressed with the interface and response.
And it’s free. Google doesn’t charge you a thing for the call or for connecting you to the business. Regular phone charges may apply, based on your telephone service provider.
Note: Google Voice Local Search is still in its experimental stage. It may not be available at all times and may not work for all users. We’re fine-tuning [...]


April 7th, 2007 - By David

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Blog Search

This week Scoble had a post about which blogsearch works best, Technorati or Google. Looking at the numbers is one thing, but, numbers are not the only factor.
One of the reasons I have become such a huge fan of the Google AJAX Search API is because it lets you see more than just one type of result. After about the Top 10 results most searches can get a little redundant, and if the engine you are using is trusted by you, do you really go way down the list to read? Or, do you start picking off the top results [...]


April 6th, 2007 - By David

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