Wednesday, 5th October 2005
Yahoo and Upcoming, Sitting In A Tree. This is really good news.
On RSS and the coming wave of content theft. A reason to avoid commercial-use-allowed Creative Commons licenses.
Canvas demos
Jesse Andrews (of Book Burro and userscripts.org fame) has built some awesome canvas demos for users of Safari or Firefox 1.5. He has a bar chart and some animated rectangles, but the real gem is the live chart which polls a server using XMLHttpRequest and updates a line graph with live data. He also has some fun mathematical experiments: a cellular automata generator and a neat exploration of Lindenmayer systems (both static and interactive). Read more on his blog.