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Offline Gmail has been released today: it uses the Gears API in order to store your mail in a local database. As a prerequisite, you need to install the Gears plugin, or use the Chrome browser. Alex Chitu at Google Operating System has a list of applications using Gears: Gmail is the most important to […]

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Paul Buchheit posted an excellent piece today, Communicating with code, which touches many of my favorite topics: the importance of APIs for innovation, prototypes, iteration. He reasserts an idea that I’ve heard initially from Bill Joy at JavaOne 2003, that innovation happens elsewhere. Public APIs enable everyone to experiment with new ideas and create new […]

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After all the fuss about http://www.whitehouse.gov/robots.txt yesterday, I did a view source and a few searches to see what they were using to build WhiteHouse.gov. Sam Allen has a good analysis, especially of the performance aspects: I’m in the middle of reading Steve Souders‘ High Performance Websites and many of his advices are followed on […]

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This morning I brought my kids to Civic Center to enjoy this historic day with everyone. As an immigrant in this country, not yet a citizen, I was very moved by his speech. The cheers when he was sworn in were very impressive, here’s a video to remember them, and a few pictures (I’m giving […]

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I just added a third friend connect gadget to this site, the new demo application. It demonstrates some interesting aspects of Friend Connect: canvas mode the fact that owner’s friends are the site members in Friend Connect: opensocial.DataRequest.newFetchPersonRequest( new opensocial.IdSpec({‘userId’ : ‘OWNER’, ‘groupId’ : ‘FRIENDS’})); I own that site, and when logged in as the […]

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