Travelling, and not Arriving

WhosWhoo?!? - new features

I worked on WhosWhoo?!? in these last nights and now I’ve just released a new version. There are a lot of new features:

a new logo! It’s not perfect but really better than the previous

‘Popular searches’ now works!

Real-time ‘Recent searches’

del.icio.us-style Browse people by category

a lot of minor adjustements in the database

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Whoswhoo?!?: new features

I’m exploring further the concept of Whoswhoo?!?: browse the web through people, rather than through websites.
So I added a simple system to categorize people using tags; it’s still a manual categorization, but it should be enough to start exporing the idea.
So how can you get started? Try some famous american politician, or any NBA star….

Fun with Yahoo!Search

As you probably know, Yahoo! has launched Yahoo! Search Web Services, a service that allows users to access Yahoo content and services using REST-style requests. There’s also a Y!Q Challenge for developers (US only) who want to create new applications using these services.
Anyway, this night I spent two hours trying Yahoo! Search Web Services and [...]

Add ‘Related Posts’ in your Wordpress blog

As you can see, I’ve added a ‘Related Posts’ paragraph in each blog post (see for example this page, just before ‘Comments’). It’s a nice improvement that allows readers to immediately recognize similar or related resources in your website. Since it’s a quick and simple hack, I described it in this brief howto.

Installing PHPEclipse

Last night I finally had some spare time to install PhpEclipse. Here are some notes.
1. Installing Xampp
If you haven’t got a well-configured Apache+Php+MySql installation you can download this good package. Basically it is a “WindowsApache + MySQL +PHP + Perl” package, with a lot of useful tools like PHPMyAdmin and Webalizer. Just download [...]

Next read_later with del.icio.us

Playing with del.icio.us capabilities is becoming one of the funniest hobby.
Cedric suggests to use a read_later tag to mantain a to-read list with del.icio.us, and gives away a simple bookmarklet to automatically add a web page to that list (simply drag and drop the link into your toolbar).
Now it would be cool to [...]