TweetMeme By Alex King (http://alexking.org/) Why it’s awesome: Allows Twitter users to quickly share your blog post, and it tracks how often they do it Why it was picked: Super simple to install; no Twitter account is needed Manual Install URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweetmeme/ Automatic Install search term: TweetMeme Geek level: Webmaster Configuration location: Top Navigation | [...]
ChaCha API with PHP
ChaCha has finally released an API for their Question and Answer service (documentation here). Personally, I have been waiting for years to get my hands on this data, and today I am happy to share this PHP Class for accessing both questions/answers and trending topics. You will need to register for an API, but the [...]
20 years from now we’re all going to die. Maybe. #space #earth
On April 13th 2029 – a 25 story wide asteroid will be coming closer to Earth than our own communications satellites orbit. Luckily this time around there is only a 1 in 45,000 chance of an earth impact - but the asteroid named Apophis will be returning to Earth 7 years later with an even higher chance of impact. [...]
LinkedIn Profile API – 1.6 Released.
Update 2/23/2011: Version 1.6 LinkedIN Made some changes to it’s public profile pages HTML – thus breaking most of the selectors. This has now been updated. http://icorbin.com/code/linkedin/profile/1.6/ Update 5/1/2010: I have updated the example to the proper URL http://icorbin.com/code/linkedin/profile/1.5/ UPDATE 4/27/2010: I have rewritten the LinkedIn Profile Parser to leverage PHP’s DOMDocument. No longer are [...]
Roll your own WordPress Tiny URL and Capitalize on your Domain’s Brand.
I am tired of TinyURL getting all of the domain “brand share” from my Blogs tweets. So I wanted to come up with my own solution to create short urls using my blogs domain: BrandonsHead.com. Yes, my domain is longer than “TinyUrl”, and I assume that yours is too – however, those 5 or so [...]
The End of JobFu – The Dying Resume
UPDATE: Download the LinkedIn PHP Class that powered JobFu. Recently, my little side project JobFu (turning a LinkedIn Public Profile in to a nice looking Living Resume) was slammed on LinkedIn by M. Joyce the Creator of IDEA Masters Online Real Time Magazine (thats a mouthful). She clearly states that she is partly outraged, not [...]
LifeStream for 2008-11-30
Yesterday 5:28am Posted an item on Worth Reading. Defying Classification: Removing The Model-View-Controller Straitjacket 11:47am Posted an item on Worth Reading. 9 Tips to Smaller & Optimized CSS Files » DivitoDesign 1:50pm Posted an item on Worth Reading. Geysers on Saturn's Moon May Signal Underground Water & Life 1:50pm Posted an item on Worth Reading. [...]
Unofficial LinkedIn Profile API
I have been foaming at the mouth since I read this post about a LinkedIn API. (For the none techie – an API gives you the ability to grab information from LinkedIn and pull that data in to another website, plus a whole lot more). However, so far LinkedIn has yet to deliver anything I can use.
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