August 13th, 2009 14 Comments »
Bubbleshare, my first online photo sharing site is closing its doors on November 15, 2009. I think Bubbleshare was one of the first online photo sharing site that utilized AJAX and did it really well. Founded by Albert Lai, it’s his 2nd startup. The 1st one was MyDesktopNetwork which was sold in 1999. Bubbleshare was acquired by Kaboose Inc for US$ 2.3M in 2007.
Here’s Bubbleshare’s announcement today:
Dear Bubbleshare member –
As of November 15, 2009, Bubbleshare.com will no longer be available and all links to all albums and photos will cease to function (including existing links within emails, blogs, etc). To access your photos in the future you will need to download your photos prior to November 15, 2009.
To save your images to your desktop, simply click the "Download Album" link next to your albums and double click on original photos. Your photos will then be saved to your desktop.
Again, all photos and albums must be removed prior to November 15, 2009. Effective immediately, you will no longer be able to upload any new photos or albums.
We apologize for the inconvenience. It was our pleasure to assist you with your photo sharing needs.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
The Bubbleshare Team
Good luck to the Bubbleshare team. It was really fun using the free online photo sharing site.
July 15th, 2009 No Comments »
Google Reader just released new features such as people you can now follow, liking a post, grouping of people you follow, finding publicly shared items. Features seems familiar? Yes, you got it right. They’ve been features of FriendFeed for quite some time now.
Your move FriendFeed.
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June 3rd, 2009 3 Comments »
Adobe BrowserLab is a new cool web service that helps you test your web pages across a different web browsers and operating systems.
Adobe BrowserLab currently supports Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on both Mac and Windows XP. Just enter the website’s URL and it will take screenshots of your web page on different browsers and platforms. It displays the result using 1-up (on its own screenshot), 2-up (side by side comparison) and my favorite Onion Skin View (as shown below) where you can quickly pinpoint differences.
One awesome feature of the Onion Skin View is you can use the a slider to fade in/out of each browser screenshot. Pretty cool!
Hopefully Adobe will support more browsers and operating systems in the future.
May 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Google Wave Developer Preview presentation at the Day 2 Keynote of Google I/O. To learn more visit http://wave.google.com
May 27th, 2009 3 Comments »
I’m not sure how/why these activation URLs were crawled by Googlebot but yes, Google still publicly shows some WordPress.com usernames and the email addresses associated with the username.
Ha! Now all hackers need is the password (no pun intended). Clearly, this is not good. But who is to blame? Google? WordPress? Or the end-user? Quite frankly, I am not sure. But I do know that it is time to change some of those information starting with the email address associated with that account.
Also, don’t forget making your password a bit stronger/longer using uppercases, numbers and character combinations.
So, how do you get this result? Simply enter “site:en.WordPress.com “your account is now active”” or click this link.
How do you find if your username was crawled? Add your username at the end like this:
“site:WordPress.com “your account is now active” johnsmith”
I suggest you change them now. It’s better safe than sorry.
May 14th, 2009 No Comments »
Ted Roden of enjoysthin.gs sent me stickers last winter and I’ve totally forgot to thank him. Hey Ted, thanks for the stickers, and for the awesome effort! I really appreciate it. My notebook is “enjoying” them!
Send me your address and I’ll send some tokens your way.
Talk to you soon!
AJ
Visit Ted Roden’s blog, take a look at enjoysthin.gs and subscribe to his FriendFeed here. He’s really one cool guy!
Here’s my enjoysthin.gs and my FriendFeed is here.
March 27th, 2009 1 Comment »
I just logged in the new interface of Google Adwords. The look and feel of the new AdWords is now very much like Google Analytics.
First screenshots of the new Google AdWords interface.
Do you like how it looks like? To fuel the fire, I’m using Google AdWords everyday and I can definitely say that this is a huge improvement. The new ajaxy interface gives it a desktop-app-like feel. I’ve tried loading it in Google Chrome and was blazing fast. The old interface for me was very clunky and slow. So any improvement from that is a jump ahead.
Kudos to the Google AdWords team for making this improvement. It’s really cool!
January 26th, 2009 No Comments »
January 9th, 2009 6 Comments »
I just read this at Friendfeed. Is this really the new Google favicon?
Wonder why they keep on changing it. But I like this new one better.
