We’re going to spend a little bit of times on Yahoo! Pipes before going forward. As you’ve seen so far, we’ve been doing a lot with RSS in building the intelligence dashboard on NetVibes. But sometimes, the content we want to aggregate isn’t in a feed form like RSS or Atom. That’s where Yahoo Pipes [...]
In the previous post, I started things by adding some basic monitoring feeds from Google Blog Search, Twitter, and Technorati to the NetVibes intelligence dashboard I’m building to monitor Tesla Motors around the web. The result looked like this.
Before I forget, I should mention that you can see the work in progress by going [...]
This is part 1 in a series of building an intelligence dashboard using NetVibes.
What’s an intelligence dashboard?
An intelligence dashboard helps you keep your pulse on…well, there’s a lot of things you can keep your pulse on. In this series, we’re going to build an intelligence dashboard to assist with monitoring Tesla Motors in various [...]
WordPress 2.7 is slated to be released very soon and I’ve started playing around with the beta release. And I’ve begun producing some updated videos for wpscreencasts.com
The video below provides a quick intro to the new dashboard coming in WordPress 2.7. The changes to the dashboard are dramatic and will require adjustments from even the [...]
If you’re looking for the virtual place to monitor and participate in election day 2008, The Blog Herald has a fantastic roundup of great destinations. My favorite is http://election.twitter.com as you can just passively sit back and soak up the activity as the site self-updates. Tomorrow will be a fantastic benchmark to see how far [...]
Even the most accomplished web builders are guilty of bloated CSS files. Any developer or designer that tells you that their CSS file is 100% streamlined is probably fibbing. Especially if you’re discussing a CSS file for a site that recently launched. You wouldn’t believe how easy it is for a CSS file end up [...]
Significant changes to Red Pill’s layout today as I added a superfooter to bottom of the blog design. In my opinion, superfooters are an underrated design element. So many blogs just load up on their sidebars that it ends up taking focus away from the content within a post. On some blogs – tags, recent [...]
Twitter got a little face lift yesterday and its not that bad. I love the look of the larger type for your “following”, “followers”, “updates” count and that your latest tweet is place under the update field. They do use a lot of my design pet peeves… but that’s pretty much the extent of my [...]
Today, Google dove headfirst into the browser wars by releasing their own browser - Chrome. I’ve downloaded it, installed it, and have now been using it for 30 minutes. Here’s what I’m thinking…
Yes, it loads super fast. And that is definitely a welcome improvement from my beloved, but sometimes hated Mozilla Firefox. Firefox currently takes [...]
I’m a big fan of saving time and energy by using best of breed online services that already exist. Keep it simple and don’t reinvent the wheel is something any software developer hears repeatedly while they are working on a new project. When Holly and I work with our clients, we often recommend third party [...]
