The Mindjet Labs

I like using the collections feature in Live Search Maps where I can keep collections of locations.  One of the activities that wanted to do was share a collection on my blog as an embedded map.  Unfortunately this isn’t one of the out-of-the-box features of Live Search Maps, so I decided to use Popfly to do it.  Since Popfly ...

Today I spent the afternoon at the Bandwidth conference in San Francisco.  I met quite a few people in the very interesting intersection of music and technology.  One cool company that I learned about was JamBase.com , a site for finding Live...(read more)

Since I created my first mashup with Popfly over a year ago, it has really come a long way.  Now it is really easy to create your own blocks and share your mashup creations.  For those of use who have blogs, the RSS feed is a way of life - it...(read more)

Lauren Cooney at IBM came up with this idea on her blog : What I'd like to see? An app that utilizes the Open APIs that Facebook and Twitter have so that I can figure out which of my 500 FB friends use Twitter. Anyone interested in building this for Web...(read more)

I have been showing off Popfly as a great example of a Silverlight 1.0 application but my colleague David Chou has gone even deeper with this post about Popfly as a Platform : Popfly provides an environment where people without a significant technical...(read more)

What is Spock ? It's a search engine for people you know on the Internet. If you search for me, you'll find this page . If you search for ''Spock'' on Spock, you'll find this page . The cool thing is that Spock has a REST-based web service API . Because...(read more)

Over the weekend, my challenge was to learn about OpenSocial and create a Silverlight application that uses it. I did that, with this simple application . To take advantage of the OpenSocial implementation in Orkut sandbox, you have to create a Google...(read more)

After getting two similar questions from colleagues today about my first OpenSocial application , it struck me that the perceptions and reality of OpenSocial are a bit confused. My colleague Dare Obasanjo describes it succinctly in five sentences (with...(read more)

I'm having a blast with Popfly, Microsoft's Silverlight-based mash-up designers. I've created a block that uses AOL Video Search and made a simple page that shows the results of what it does. I fell as if I'm just scratching the surface of something really...(read more)

I just sat through an earthquake; a bit shaking but nothing damaged; no one was hurt.  That gave me an idea: why don't I show earthquakes on a Virtual Earth Map using Popfly, Microsoft's new mashup service? Get Geo-RSS Data from the USGS Convert the RSS Items to Virtual Earth Pushpins Here are the Magnitude 5+ earthquakes for the past 7 ...