Suggestions
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This has got to be a bug....
Dear Amazon.com Customer,
We've noticed that customers who have purchased or rated White Noise Critical: Text and Criticism (Viking Critical Library) by Don DeLillo have also purchased Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Jamie Bronstein. For this reason, you might like to know that Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain will be released on October 10, 2007. You can pre-order yours by following the link below.
Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Jamie Bronstein
Price: $55.00
Release Date: October 10, 2007
Found in Hi5 Lunch Room
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Update: On the back we find the fine, fine web site http://www.rapsnacks.com/ (Enter if you dare!) and a bio of Romeo, a rapper I have never heard of, but my colleage Brett tells me was once a featured artist on Hi5.
Free WiFi in San Francisco
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Meraki is building a free mesh network in San Francisco. This is probably the best hope for getting this type of service in the city now that the Google/Earthlink deal fell apart.
Join up!
Go to http://sf.meraki.net and help build the network. When the router comes in I'll have 7th and Howard covered with 1Mbps of donated bandwidth.
Widgets, APIs and more
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I'm happy to announce that Hi5 has Widget support. Yes, I know that this is soooo last year. However there's a twist that makes it better.
We worked closely with Rock You and Slide to integrate tightly with our site, using open standards wherever possible. For example, for slideshows we created Atom Feeds for each photo album, and a feed-of-albums feed for the list of all albums. And when it came time to share profile information for horoscopes (birthday) and languages spoken we used FOAF. Thus we get partners to adopt open standards, plus the work we did for them is usable by everyone.
The only tricky part was authentication and authorization. Right now it's using our own AuthToken implementation, but it could probably be done in a better way. I looked into OpenID as a mechanism, but's way too end-user centric for this type of thing.
Coming soon we should have full Atom endpoints (both in/out with WSSE auth), OpenID provider, and a few other standards based things like XMPP vCard support. All of this is being done with an Web Services Aspect Oriented toolkit called Enunciate, which has made writing these services a very enjoyable experience.
Got yer back 6A
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So I've spent a good chunk of today defending Six Apart from the cheap shots being leveled at them today. I won't link to them, they don't deserve the pagerank.
I'm particularly angered at the audacity of the bald-faced lies in some comments.
I may not be employed at Six Apart today, but I put my heart and soul into building it. I won't let a bunch of hacks harm the people still there. So, if you see anyone anywhere putting the hurt on Six Apart let me know. I'll use discourse, reason and wit to set the record straight.
Skins, Updates, More
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Just caught up 10 days worth of Neighborhood posts. I now have Vox fatigue combined with Vox guilt. I didn't even read comments, for shame :( After this post I'll need to check on the 'ol LiveJournal Friends page. Don't even ask about the umpteem BlogLines blogs stuck at 200 posts...
Hi5 has a new Skins system that actually can make profile pages look good. I had some input early on and made sure Vox and the SixApart styles were part of the inspiration. It's coming out really well and we've received over 200 submissions. Check out the snazzy new profile page? Designers can check out the specs page.
Embeds are evil. They mess up divs and tables and are often pasted in haphazardly. Amit came up with an amazing solution. Use JTidy to clean up the user submitted content. Tags match and broken html goes bye-bye!
Now back to the super-secret Hi5 Project Funk.
