October 14, 2009
Reading Radar featured on Boing Boing
A guest blogger, Connie Choe, has posted a profile of Reading Radar on my all-time favorite blog Boing Boing. I can’t believe that this simple little mashup has received so much attention. Would anyone be interested in a video tutorial or something to learn how to build mashup sites like this?
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John Herren is a developer and technical consultant with focus on web applications. He currently serves as Director of Development for Primetime US, the company behind the hit movie and book The Secet. John was formerly staff writer and developer community evangelist for Zend Technologies. Along with founding neat experiments like TagCloud.com, John is an active member in the mashup community, working with API providers and speaking at conferences. He is a published author of Linux certification study material. John enjoys using open source software like PHP and Ruby on Rails to bend the web into exciting new chimeras of hyperlinked goodness.
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October 14th, 2009 at 3:23 am
In a word “yes”. In two “yes please”.
I think the phrase is, its simple when you know how. So for you its simple. I suspect I actually know how to do all the bits to make a mashup like this one, but not how to put all those bits together.
October 14th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Yes! I’d love to see something like that. Congrats on the publicity!
October 15th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Yes, please!
October 17th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
I’d like to see something like this more for my desire to see neato educational videos come out (I know they’re needed) than for the education itself (obviously, you know that).
October 21st, 2009 at 5:06 am
again.. yes.. either the tech or the inspiration side.. dont get overwhelmed by trying to make the vids perfect.. Make them works in progress.
October 25th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Yes, a video tutorial would great, especially something that emphasized working with the two different APIs, how you stitched them together into a cohesive whole.