Example of a web mashup at work
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Web
A web Mashup is essentially a way of taking data from one web service or application and then using another web service or application to either add to, modify, or display the data in a unique way.
Ran across an excellent blog posting that demonstrated this.
… So to recap, we have scraped some data from a wikipedia page into a Google spreadsheet using the =importHTML formula, published a handful of rows from the table as CSV, consumed the CSV in a Yahoo pipe and created a geocoded KML feed from it, and then displayed it in a Google map.
-Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets
The resulting KML file can viewed in Google Maps here.
Tags: Google, Mashup, Web, Wikipedia, Yahoo
The Google OS is here
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Software
No really, it is!
Well kind of, It’s probably just not what you had in mind.
First of all, what could one consider a “Google OS” to be?
One could reply that its an OS designed to integrate Google’s web based application line, with traditional desktop applications with focus on search, ease of use, and stability.
Fine maybe thats just my take on it, but its not a bad take..
So then what kind of applications does an OS need?
Well there’s a need for productivity software (Mail, Calendar, Document control). Communication (IM, Social Networking, Online discussion).
Media (Images, Video).
Anyone can see where I’m going with this, so if Google already has so many desktop applications being ported to the web then why does it need to create a whole OS to interact with them?
They don’t.
Introducing: Google Chrome, must-read overview here.
Why do I call it the Google OS, well think about it; The real “Google OS” is actually all in cyberspace. So all one needs to do is use a browser to access it.
But By creating a browser that will run on Windows/Mac/Linux, Google has created a universally stable “OS” that will be able to handle all Google Apps effectively.
Tags: Browser, Chrome, Google, OS, Software, Web
New theme
Posted by Pavan Chander | Filed under Web
In all fairness to me, it has been quite a few months since I last changed themes not quite a year, but decently close.
I’ve also added a “lifestream”, a collection of my social feeds all in one place. Probably more useful to me then to anyone else as I can use it to prove to myself that I actually did something on any given day.
Still have plenty to iron out, I manually added Gravatar support, still need to add a mini bio in the footer. I also need to figure out what I’m doing with categories vs tags.
Tags: Web
