Category Archives: whoisi

on delicious

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Christopher Blizzard

I post a lot of links to my twitter account.  I can imagine that it gets a little overwhelming for people.  So I’ve started keeping a lot of that on my new delicious account.  Feel free to follow me there … Continue reading →

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a little warning about flickr feeds

Posted on October 18, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Last night I discovered the hard way that flickr uses slightly different GUIDs in its RSS and Atom feeds for the same entries.  The format looks something like this in the Atom feed: tag:flickr.com,2005:/photo/12345678 And in the RSS2 feed: tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/12345678 … Continue reading →

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unread on whoisi

Posted on August 25, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

I’ve added a new feature to whoisi. It will now keep track of things you haven’t seen: To see the new items in your follow stream click on the link like the one above that says “318 Unread.” When you’ve … Continue reading →

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whoisi API docs

Posted on August 9, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

I spent a couple of hours last night writing API docs for whoisi, something I probably should have done on day one. You can find the API docs on the API page which is also found at the footer of … Continue reading →

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this whoisi feature is brought to you by joe shaw

Posted on July 22, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

My good friend Joe did some coding for whoisi a few weeks ago and I finally got around to merging it into the production code base. He’s added a really handy little feature: recommendations. If you’re following a few people … Continue reading →

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whoisi activity stream for OSCON 2008

Posted on July 18, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

In my original post on whoisi I made a remark about wanting to keep track of events: You also might notice that I have an entry above that just says “@fisl2008″. This is me just playing with events. One thing … Continue reading →

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going to be at oscon this year? drop me some mail.

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

I want to run a little experiment. If you’re going to be at OSCON this year take 2 seconds and drop me an email. If you want to include your blog or whoisi ID I would appreciate it, but if … Continue reading →

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added del.icio.us support to whoisi

Posted on July 4, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

I added support for del.icio.us to whoisi this evening. Let me know if you see problems. Update: There are still server throttling issues so sometimes adding del.icio.us urls doesn’t work. Still working on making the polling stuff smarter about that.

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another whoisi theme

Posted on July 4, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

Garrett LaSage put together a user theme for whoisi.com. He’s got a link to the screenshots on his blog. It works with either Stylish or Greasemonkey. So cool!

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upcoming travel and event schedule – guadec, oscon + more

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Christopher Blizzard

July is going to be a pretty intense travel month for me. Here’s a rundown of where I will be: July 6th-July 10th: Istanbul, Turkey. I’ll be there for GUADEC and I’m speaking on Wednesday. Hopefully to re-iterate how important … Continue reading →

Posted in Fennec, Firefox, Kicking My Ass, Mobile, Mozilla, Open Web, Speaking, Travel, whoisi | 1 Comment