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Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:17:03
An unreported activity during my blogging hiatus has been watching. Not in a pervy voyeuristic fashion. No - more in an ergonomic, usability, user experience kinda way. I've found it fascinating and it's changing how I build things.
Speaking of things I've built but haven't shared...
hRead is all about browser independent bookmarking. Sure del.icio.us does that perfectly, but I wanted private bookmarks - web2.0 isn't all about sharing! I also wanted to snapshot pages I bookmarked. And I was curious about fuzzy search techniques. And document relationships. And spidering.
So I bent these needs into a tool and gave it a daft name! Some time and thought was put into a more practical bookmarklet, letting you 'tag and bag' a page without leaving it - going back to anything else is painful! Ironically, for a tool built for privacy, I'm sharing it...
A tool written to support a 'banner-banter' post for grabaGAFF.com, mirrorED simple flips your text (in an easy peasie upside downey texty turnie kinda way!). Confuse your boss, annoy your friend etc! Rendered in HTML5 and supports most of the A-Grade browsers (curse your text handling IE6!). Not a cure for cancer, but amusing nevertheless and a great giggle to write!
A need to experiment with user interface ideas and the Twitter API, with only the resources of a buddy who sends amusing texts daily and a curiosity about the shelf life of certain hot topics. Still pre-alpha, but growing. Slowly.
But wait, there's more!
Time has also been spent redeveloping the Backpage content management system and the MkiScript javascript library. But those are posts for another day.