How to Save Effort when Developing Social Networking Apps
Lunch found me in downtown Mountain View with Ted, from Meebo, who informed me that Rock You and Slide must expend 30% of their effort to port any application from Facebook to Open Social. I'm certain the people at both companies have heard of XSLT? Indeed Mr Ayers has a partial XSLT for the OpenSocial API! I'll try to further it over the weekend.
How to Remember Your Passwords
Only if you use Firefox (if you don't get it!), but you can reveal the passwords for a certain website by typing the following javascript snippet into your addressbar.
Google Reader First Thoughts
I must be the last person not to use a web-based aggregator for blogs. No more, though. I just started using Google Reader. One complaint: I can't add a page by URL, only by feed. It's very easy to solve this problem, indeed I will post code below that does it (in theory). I say, in theory, because ECMAscript is difficult to test at best.
tag = document.getElementByTagName('link');
return tag[0];This ought to return the first link tag. Anyone have suggestions as to how to send the reader team feedback in a hurry?
