Archive for December, 2005

Browse Amazon nodes with Ajax

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

I have started working on the Amazon API. My plan is to make it possible to compare prices with eBay with a simple click. The first step is to make a little Ajax-based browser for the Amazon categories.
The Amazon API is very straight forward BUT, the categories or browsenodes as they call them are a […]

Best sports cars ever

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

I ran across an old article about the best sport cars in Forbes magazine. All but two of the cars, the Ferrari 275 and the Lamborghini Miura can be bought online. It is amazing, you do not even have to leave your computer to spend a couple of hundred thousand dollar.

Jaguar E-Type
Lamborgini Miura
Porsche 911
BMW M3
Dodge […]

Desirable tech stuff - Dell 3007FPW

Monday, December 5th, 2005

Dell will be adding a 30 inch monitor on December 21 according to Engadget. The model will be called Dell 3007WFP according to Engadget (I would guess Dell 3007FPW. It will have 2560 x 1600 , a 14ms response time and 700:1 contrast ratio. The price will probably be under US $2000. The spec is […]

eBay MSN Virtual Earth app up and running

Monday, December 5th, 2005

My contribution to the “World best app” is online now at http://www.worldsbestapp.com/ViewApps.aspx. Choose, non-games. I am still undecided if it people will find the app useful. It is somewhat crippled compared to my other mashups as MSN does not allow for use of Ajax.

Google Dance - no longer dancing

Friday, December 2nd, 2005

There are a number of sites that offer tools to check future Google indexes. Google has a couple of servers, www2.google.com and www3.google.com, that have version of the Google index that are not yet propagated.
However it seems that the Google Dance tools are no longer working. All indices seem to be identical.

MSN Messenger app ready

Thursday, December 1st, 2005

I have completed my MSN Messenger app for the World’s Best App contest. It is a pretty weird app, it lets two people use my eBay MSN Virtual Earth mashup at the same time, synchronized.
I am not sure if people will find this useful. It should be online soon at the The Worlds best […]