This presentation didn’t fit TechPresentatons.org format, so it got posted here. Design trends and cliches in Web 2.0 world.

Google did a good job announcing OpenSocial, bringing many partners and creating lots of marketing buzz – many business people already see it as Facebook platform killer open to all and everywhere and ready to jump on board, all developer shops and widget catalogs already announced that they support and ready to deploy OpenSocial applications.…

I realized that when I need to use new Open Source project, I add it to Ohloh (if it’s not there yet) to see what they have to say about it. The only problem is that I’m too lazy to do that every time I need to use some software. I wonder why Ohloh doesn’t…

It’s first time for me to see somebody else’s project on the domain I registered. Here’s my feed if you’re interested: http://friendfeed.com/sergeychernyshev P.S. almost like http://sergeychernyshev.feedfriends.com/ ;)

I spent some time this weekend writing a new kind of application – Facebook application. It’s quite interesting how they built their platform and they are probably first to do this kind of thing, at least among big players. Anyway, come and take a looks at Friends Explorer application. Currently it shows birthday time-lines for…

It looks like Facebook is not the only one to create web application platforms.

I wrote a simple extension to LWP::ConnCache, which allows to somehow resolve keys before putting connections into cache. Task is not very obvious until you understand that http://www.example.com/ and http://example.com/ are the same server and there is no need to open two connections if you want to get data from both sites. Moreover http://*.livejournal.com and…

I’m back from Web 2.0 Expo. I met many interesting people and watched many interesting presentations. I also started to think about converting TechPresentations.com from blog to Wiki. In any case, I’ll post update it in a coming week to reflect the knowledge I got at the conference.

I’ve been looking at JavaScript recently, especially after watching those courses by Douglas Crockford. I was doing some bookmark and widget coding I realized that there is no tool to load JSON data from remote hosts. While plenty of libraries provide you with various tools to organize your XMLHttpRequests and other hacks to load data…

I haven’t been publishing about many changes in Feed Friends and I can’t really remember everything I did but today I finally got tired of link toolbar to only have Feed Friends share button and not to have Digg, del.icio.us and the rest so I changed this processor to include all In-Feed Controls I configured…