LinkedIn just unveiled its new homepage design, and it looks like they learnt many things from Facebook. From the Status updates, to the personalized “News Feed”, to the general layout of the site, the influence of Facebook is all over the place… But’s it’s only Fair game in the highly competitive Social Networking space 
Google just unveiled a new feature in Gmail Chat: you now have the long-awaited, ability to be invisible to your contacts. Thanks!
Facebook is starting to internationalize (i18n) its UI. First language, spanish. Check it out there.
As they say: ¡Bienvenido a Facebook!
MapMySearch is a very basic yet useful app that enables you to locate the servers hosting the top results of your search in Google. As an example, try searching for “stanford“, and you’ll get the gist of it. Pretty cool, isn’t it?
As I couldn’t resist and bought myself an iPhone over Christmas, I soon wanted to write my first iPhone-specific web app. So here it is: it’s called iPhone Graffiti and enables everybody to draw on their screen and submit their Art to the user-contributed Gallery. Hope you’ll like it and make some nice drawings
You might wonder how web sites (such as Wordpress blogs equipped with this plugin) can detect that you’re browsing them on a iPhone or iPod Touch. It’s in fact very simple, the User-Agent of these devices is simply something like Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A538a Safari/419. You can usually detect that server-side and redirect to somewhere, or apply the correct template.
For some time my Ultraedit was taking forever to start up. I just found out why. I previously had a network disk I was using, and a shared printer. When I left this environment I uninstalled the networked disk, but not the printer. This seemed to cause Ultraedit to hang up forever while trying to find the printer. If you have this problem too, just remember to delete the printer.
First post of this blog where I’ll be writing about random tech stuff, likely to be at least loosely related to Web development and mapping. I’ll be posting in English and occasionnally in French.
Cheers,
Julien C