Browsing Wikipedia as OPML

Well, it’s done – at least a working prototype is done.
The idea was to browse Wikipedia using Grazr.
This can be done by representing the main categories of Wikipages in an OPML file. Using the Grazr GUI, a user can drill down through any subcategories, similarly represented. Expanding a category provides an OPML file [...]

Building a Facebook application with PHP

I was playing around and decided to embed my Grazr podcast list in a Facebook application using PHP. Obviously with a simple lookup database to translate Facebook id to Podcast.com id this could be extended to a personal feed for any user. But I was just playing.
First register the application with Facebook, by adding their [...]

Facebook vs. Twitter

So, one can tweet from Twitter, or one can tweet from the Twitter application within Facebook’s shell. It may be only a limited time before one can access LinkedIn from within Facebook shell. If so, Facebook will have won the laurel as the next operating-system-like platform. With Microsoft behind them, who would bet the other [...]

The Combined Community Codec Pack

Yes, I am running Windows, for all its faults and despite the “evil” impulses attributed to Micro$oft it gives me what I need and it came with my PC. So I go with the flow and use what was given to me.
However of course it has shortcomings and one of those is the limited [...]

Genki

Wow! From a position of absolutely zero knowledge I had a lot of fun and learned a slew of Japanese words and sentences from Genki Japanese in a couple of hours on Sunday.
This was the first success for social networking from Podcast.com, a site of which I have high hopes. Now I’ll look for Japanese [...]

Testing a Grazr widget from a podcast.com OPML

I have been playing around with the beta of the new podcast.com site. Impressive stuff, and I’ll have things to say about it later. Meanwhile, here is a link to a Grazr tree. Nice!
This blog strips out embedded Javascript, so I can’t actually embed the generated widget. Here is a link to a demo [...]