A little while back I had a fun idea: I bet I could use twitter to collect and store little, ad-hoc data statements; with a simple parser, those statements could be used to make data. A little ad-hoc database right inside twitter! I even got myself a domain name where I could tinker with it.
Well, mycrocosm beat me to it. It’s cool. It makes graphs. Rad. Exhibit A, on my time spent engaged with the Olympics:
Also. Tinkering with mycrocosm, I found Google Charts. Holy smokes!
Update
And today I see daytum, another service of the same sort. It’s invitation-only, dammit. But it looks cool.
I appreciate your enthusaism for innovative internet functionality, but I must point out that IE 5.5 was released in the year 2000. I am reasonably confident that whatever it is your website does, Camino can handle it.
Subtitled: When splash pages go awry. In 1998.
After a false start last week, all of us at Piazza della Schussman are just about ready to move to our new hosting digs. The steam pipes may be particularly thumpy for the next couple of days as DNS changes make their way about, and parts of the site that don’t use relative URLs (some graphics, for example) won’t show up. Things should be back to more or less normal soon.
Update: It looks like things went pretty smoothly. Neat.
This is quite a bit more disorienting than I expected: Yahoo circa 1995. Suddenly I’m nineteen years old again, in the consultant office of the Olin Hall computer lab, using Netscape 1.0, and I have a ponytail.
(Link via Jonas Luster)
