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Like many of you, I have a Twitter account, a LinkedIn account, a Facebook account, and I have my tweets go to LinkedIn and Facebook so that I can lazily update everyone when I have something to say.  The resulting stream ends up being pretty spammy and unfocused, and so I post much less frequently…

Inspired by my coworkers, I’m going to participate in the 30 Day Blog Fitness Challenge.  In contemplating it, though, I want to add a little bit of extra interest for myself, and remind myself of the value of taxonomy and categorization.  I used to post about all sorts of things, and I find that I…

Last night was the Silicon Valley iOS Developer Meetup hosted here at LinkedIn. I talked through a sample client for the iPhone which iOS developers can use as a springboard for creating their own LinkedIn-powered apps. Slides can be found here.

I presented at the Semantic Web Meetup in San Francisco about this topic, slides for that talk can be found here. A friend of mine, who runs a rather cool website, asked me to help him understand how to create an industry-based query to see which of your connections are in a particular industry.  As…

One of the things we’re working on in the Developer Relations group at LinkedIn is creating tools to help our developers work through issues and questions quickly and easily. The OAuth authentication piece is frequently tricky, so we put together an OAuth Test Console, based on a similar tool from JR Conlin. It’s a handy…

Around June 28 of last year, Craigslist made a change to their feed structure which caused applications using Apple’s WebKit to be unable to load them. Safari doesn’t work (neither version 4 or 5), Mac Mail doesn’t work… This problem has been discussed on the Apple Support Forms here and here. While this problem is…

n n “Cheers to a new year, and another chance to get it right” — Oprah n Happy new year, to all and sundry.  I’ve apparently decided to start off the new year with a head cold, but that’ll pass, and I’ll have all of glorious 2011 in front of me to learn new things,…

Hackday is here again at Netflix, so I’ve been working on a web version of the Intersect which uses JQuery. It occurred to me that adding social to the system would be some nice icing on the cake, so I set forth to use the Facebook Like Button to add things to the users’ graphs,…

Many of my faithful readers are aware that I’m quite passionate about giving people different ways to browse through data spaces. Being a Netflix subscriber, one of the things I find frustrating is that I cannot make intersecting queries to find movies I want to see, or to help me remember a movie I vaguely…

One of the things I’m doing right now is training for the Las Vegas Triathlon (as well as the Nautica Triathlon the week before). I like to be able to chart my progress with various different technical tools, but I’m finding myself a tiny bit frustrated trying to find something that’ll really work for me.…