So we use this toolkit from Octazen to scrape contact lists off of various sites.  Our ever eager users (ab)used this feature so much that hotmail blocked us.

So I waded through reams of API docs over at http://dev.live.com and finally came up with this prototype perl script to talk to their API ( Read more... )

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Meraki is building a free mesh network in San Francisco.  This is probably the best hope for getting this type of service in the city now that the Google/Earthlink deal fell apart.

Join up!

Go to http://sf.meraki.net and help build the network.  When the router comes in I'll have 7th and Howard covered with 1Mbps of donated bandwidth.

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I'm happy to announce that Hi5 has Widget support.  Yes, I know that this is soooo last year. However there's a twist that makes it better.

We worked closely with Rock You and Slide to integrate tightly with our site, using open standards wherever possible.  For example, for slideshows we created Atom Feeds for each photo album, and a feed-of-albums ( Read more... )

Earthquake in Peru, logins drop immediately.  Hope everyone is safe....


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Earthquake in Peru, logins drop immediately.  Hope everyone is safe....


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So I've spent a good chunk of today defending Six Apart from the cheap shots being leveled at them today.  I won't link to them, they don't deserve the pagerank.

I'm particularly angered at the audacity of the bald-faced lies in some comments.

I may not be employed at Six Apart today, but I put my heart and soul into building it.  I won't let a bunch ( Read more... )

Just caught up 10 days worth of Neighborhood posts.  I now have Vox fatigue combined with Vox guilt.  I didn't even read comments, for shame :(  After this post I'll need to check on the 'ol LiveJournal Friends page.  Don't even ask about the umpteem BlogLines blogs stuck at 200 posts...

Hi5 has a new Skins system that actually can make profile ( Read more... )

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We're living on the edge over here at Hi5.  Our new Movable Type 4 base blog is now available at http://www.hi5networks.com/blog/

The whole company is getting involved and you'll see plenty of interesting information to come.

Also, from a technical standpoint, MT4 has proved a winner.  The memcached support in Data::ObjectDriver means that we can run ( Read more... )