Friday, April 12, 2002

[Here is screenshot of the new search window in Archipelago. Of course, it uses the Google API. It's crude, a first pass, and I still have to add more UI to the Prefs. Everyone will have to handle ther own key. Understandable, truly, but a bit messy.] * [As an aside. This is the first service for which I used SOAP since Google currently does not offer the service employing XML-RPC (hint, hint). SOAP may be a lot of things, but it ain't clean and simple. Just IMHO. Maybe one day I'll understand what all that stuff buys me.] * Steve Zellers' Radio Weblog: AppleScript for Google API. "Its quite a simple API; this is just one way of calling it from AppleScript." * [Congratulations to Google for taking this step, and becoming (I suspect) the most used web service within a very short period of time. It's a bold move, even if took a while, and I look forward to your continuing innovation.] * Eclecticity: Dan Shafer's Web Log. "development tool makers don't stand a chance against good Open Source projects." [Dave's right, you don't have to trash someone else to point how good your products are... my simple point is "good whatever" beats "bad whatever". It doesn't matter whether open or closed, commercial or not, is on one side of the equation or the other. What matters is good, better, best. All else is faucet polishing.] * Dive Into OS X. "This site is a repository of information for Mac OS X and OS X Server administrators. It is not a discussion forum, a bulletin board, or a place for topical Mac news. It is a wiki, free to all and freely editable by all." [by Mark Pilgrim] 3:21:32 PM    comment

[I wonder what Seth would think of Archipelago? Seth always had a million good ideas, and his books always contain great stuff. I haven't read his latest but I'd recommend checking out his stuff.] Zoometry: Survival Is Not Enough by Seth Godin. "Very little specialized knowledge is required to open a copy shop. Yet Kinko's dramatically outpaced every other competitor by reinventing what a copy shop was, every single day. Kinko's did not have a patented new technology. Instead, it had a posture about change that treated innovations and chaos as good things, not threats. [snip] Paul was right. All of us are smarter than any one of us." [Hmmm. Nice tag line.] Seth's Blog. "Fifteen minutes into it, a silver-haired executive-looking (how you do that in a t-shirt is anybody's guess) guy walks in, walks right by me, reaches up and turns on CNN before he gets on the treadmill. Try to imagine the opposite occurring. You walk in while someone is watching CNN and turn it off without asking. Never happen." [Thanks Doc, for pointing this out. I worked for Seth doing tech stuff for two of his companies. Lot's of smart, fun, people.] 9:04:12 AM    comment