P@ Log

I’ve learned about Blekko’s new “slashtag” based custom search engine in Danny Sullivan’s Search Engine Land Blog and it made me want to try an experiment: over the past 5 years I have used delicious to tag 6000 articles, applying 14000 tags to them, why not creating a custom search engine based on these tags? […]

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Today Google released the Go programming language. We are hiring a developer program engineer to help manage and grow the Go developer community. The job description is similar to our generic Developer Program Engineer position with a few changes: 6 years of experience or more Strong C++ and Java, and others a strong interest in […]

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I spent the past 2 nights in Singapore coding a fun literary experiment: I was initially planning to Tweet Joyce’s Ulysses the 16th of June, Bloomsday, with some friends. But I realized it was too late for that. Then I decided to crowdsource it, and created a Mechanical Irish using Google Appengine Python. Please try […]

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Today with 3 partner sites, Time.com, HuffingtonPost and JS-Kit, we gave a talk at Google I/O about how and why they implemented Google Friend Connect on their site. The session showed that Friend Connect starts to get real traction with large sites, and that implementing a deep integration using the Friend Connect Javascript or REST […]

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In the past 3 weeks, since we have released the Google Friend Connect Javascript API, I have been playing Friend Connect it a bit more: the Javascript APIs let you add social features to your site without requiring the use of gadgets. Ask the user to join the site, then you have access to the […]

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This morning I gave a keynote at the EDC | 2009 Developers Relation Conference called: Google Developer Program: How a Platform based on Open Web standards makes sense during an economic downturn. Since the audience was full of people who do slideware all year long for a living, I though slides would bore them (and […]

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The Teaching Open Source wiki “serves as a neutral collaboration point for everyone involved in Teaching Open Source”: this is an excellent initiative. Resource about learning Open Source development are scattered in various places and communities and I hope that this wiki will grow into a useful central repository. They are using MediaWiki for the […]

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2 weeks ago I discovered the Adobe Pixel bender Air application: I thought it was really impressive, and that it was cool that you could use it from Javascript through Flash 10, but I was yearning for an open web equivalent and thought it would take a while before we could do that on top […]

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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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