Posted: February 10th, 2007 | Author: edward | Filed under: Yahoo, georss, maps, pipes | 4 Comments »
I saw that crschmidt.net was having a little bit of trouble with the Pipes Location Extractor and I realized that our documentation is too short.
Location Extractor normalizes the location information in feeds that have already been geo-coded in some form. For example, if you are using any of the various forms of geo-coding a feed with tags it should work.
Supported formats are GML, W3C Basic GeoRSS, simple GeoRSS, Yahoo! Local’s API format, KML’s “LookAt” tag, and some variations on nearly all of those. Additionally, there is some support for extracting geo data from links to Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps, and Mapquest.
Once this data is extracted, you can access the Latitude and Longitude via the y:location element. When the data is rendered back out as RSS, we use abbreviated W3C Basic Geo which is just geo:lat and geo:long tags. (Note: this format is supported by the Yahoo! Ajax Maps API)
The feature of geocoding addresses in unstructured text is not yet available, but will be coming shortly via a new module.
Hope that helps!
Posted: February 7th, 2007 | Author: edward | Filed under: Yahoo, ajax, pipes | 7 Comments »
Hi All,
I’m pleased to say that we’ve got an early beta of Pipes available today. This is a tool for developers to remix data on the web and we are hoping that you find it useful. Please bear in mind that the initial version is here for feedback, so don’t hesitate to use the links on the site. I’m really looking forward to where this service will lead.
Tim has been kind enough to write about our service better than I could and the same goes for Jeremy.
As for me, my favorite pipe is European Performance Car News. When Pasha Sadri first told me about his idea, I immediately wanted to have this pipe. It pulls automotive news from my favorite sites (Autoblog, Fourtitude, and Jalopnik) and filters them for the makes that I’m interested in. It’s a simple pipe, but it’s an example of how you can use pipes to quickly scratch an itch you’ve been having.
Posted: October 17th, 2006 | Author: edward | Filed under: Yahoo | No Comments »
Fearless leader Bradley is interviewed over at CNet News. It’s a good read with some choice Bradley quotes: “uniting these like-minded people around the spirit of change” and also “We Built the stage, we worked the soundboard, we get the drugs…”.
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Posted: October 12th, 2006 | Author: edward | Filed under: Yahoo | 5 Comments »
I’m working on a project now that will literally change the world, at least for those of us who use the internet. The problem I’m facing is what to name the damn thing. Every time I build something I have this problem and it usually descends into everyone throwing words at it until one sticks.
So far I like none of them, but perhaps it’s just that I’m too familiar with the product and I’ve got my own understanding of it. I was thinking though, “what’s in a name?”… if it’s something new, it doesn’t really need to be based on anything the user is familiar with. It could be called oogeyboogey for all the user cares. Thinking about some great companies and products with meaningless names, it’s easy to list off a few: “Macintosh”, “Google”, “Yahoo”, “Amazon”… All of these meant something to someone, but it wasn’t the user. It certainly wasn’t me when I first used them.
I think the best thing to do is just pick one that has a nice ring to it.
And yes, I guess this is the first time I’m blogging about the new product. It’s awesome, seriously, you are going to love it.
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Posted: September 30th, 2006 | Author: edward | Filed under: Yahoo, out of doughnuts ramblings | No Comments »
The overall winner of this weekend’s Open Hack Day was “Blogging in Motion” by Emily, Diana, and Audrey. This talented team constructed a purse which captures your day and blogs it unobtrusively. Embedded in this custom built purse (also built from scratch in 1 day) is a phone which is hardwired to a pedometer. After a certain number of steps, it snaps a picture which gets uploaded to flickr along with it’s location data. At the end of the day you can quickly flip through the captured photos and others can simply view your blog.
It was brilliantly executed in a day and is computing that is wearable, useful, and unobtrusive.
This was one of many terrific projects completed by outside developers and I was really happy to see all the great work. I believe Michael will be writing up some of the projects that caught his eye and his impressions soon.
One thing that you should take a look at though is this hilarious video put together by Beck and his crew.
I’m off to build something… nothing makes me feel like coding more than watching others do such a great job.
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