January 2009
2 posts
president obama let us use your webpages
The US government creates and maintains vast storehouses of information. Most of these are publicly available online.
Among the more useful:
census data
weather data
royalty and advertisement free mapping
Images can come from anywhere, but text cannot.
Thus the tiger mapping service has a REST API that can be used by/from any webpage.
Any webpage can use image data from anywhere,...
green code
Netbooks, cell phones and other battery-powered devices are quickly becoming a popular way to access the web. I wonder how different kinds code impact the battery usage of these gadgets. A recent experiment showed that web pages using Flash sucked more power than pages with html and javascript alone. It says that “ajax” uses almost as much as Flash. I would presume he is talking about...