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For those that don’t follow my Twitter, you’ll have missed this:

builtbydave Looking for ~7 days freelance work a month. Will do anything interesting, I don’t code, you suggest cost. RT/fwd please 1 week ago from web

Basically, while Pistach.io, and various other responsibilities are going well they’re still early days. I understand that my value to another company is mostly relevant if you’re a startup & cash might not be there to blow on a big consultants fee, hence — you suggest a cost.

What am I interested in doing? Well, anything interesting — let’s grab a coffee & talk. (note: common misconception, “built” in builtbydave means developer… it doesn’t)

If you know interesting folks who might be interested, pass it on. Here are my contact details.

Earlier this year I blogged about Josh & I having problems with bugs on RedYourSite.com. Recently Remy (of LeftLogic) dropped me a line:

Came across this post this afternoon so thought I’d take a crack.  I’ve got it work faster (most of the time - and if not - only ms slower), replacing 100% of test cases and in all browsers 

Perfect, here’s to crowd sourcing! If I were wearing a hat I’d tip it towards Remy! Nice work.

Great timing as well with World AIDS day just around the corner (December 1st). Support the campaign? Head over to RedYourSite.com & add one line of code to your website.

(even better, don’t just do it for World AIDS day)

Where is it, anyone know?

Quick tip. If someone tweets, “@builtbydave ….” the tweet will show in my replies tab. If they “…. @builtbydave ….” it doesn’t — there’s a good chance I’ll miss it. Using a somewhat unknown feature on http://icanhaz.com I created a quick URL to get those missed tweets.

http://icanhaz.com/nonreplies/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE
e.g. http://icanhaz.com/nonreplies/builtbydave

I recommend subscribing to the given feed in your favourite feed reader

1. All this browser innovation (not just Chrome, but also Snowl & Ubiquity from Mozilla) are great, but how quickly can this really move.. after all we still have IE.
2. If we don’t see the innovation from IE, can we bridge it somehow to allow it to gain mass market? IE plugins?
3. Chrome uses WebKit. It joins, among others Safari, Chrome, Nokia, iPhone, and Android. Is this aimed at all non-WebKit engine? i.e. IE (Trident) & Firefox (Gecko)
4. So, who is this aimed at?
   • Safari? doubt it.
   • Opera? Did WebKit gaining popularity take care of them.
   • Firefox? Between WebKit (Apple, Google, Nokia) and Microsoft I can’t help thinking maybe their market share is a niche?
   • Internet Explorer? doubt it, too small an aim for the Google
   • Microsoft? Now we’re talking, bring Gears (included in Chrome) into the mix (over all the supported platforms) and you have the framework of an assault on desktop applications, Microsoft’s core business.
   • Facebook? If we’re looking at a push from desktop world into a web application world the phrase ‘WebOS’ appears. Remember f8 acquisition Parakey?
   • On ‘WebOS’, land you get to Google App Engine, Amazon AWS, OpenSocial et al. I’ve previously laid some thoughts on those.
5. Javascript engines? Chrome uses V8, while Mozilla has SpiderMonkey & Rhine in it’s toolkit. Both IE and Opera also have their own. What will it mean for Javascript?
6. From Gears, what about Adobe AIR, Prism, Fluid, what will it mean for these bridging technologies?

I’ll leave it there for now. Your thoughts?

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In February Google released their Social Graph API, and according to ReadWriteWeb the information they’re gathering is starting to surface. It’s extremely valuable information, just think of it in a context away from advertising, i.e. people search.

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Over at Pistachio HQ we’re a big fan of Amazon Web Services, and we’ve been using SimpleDB since day 1. However, for one reason or another we’ve needed to export our data and it turns out there’s no tools that do that… until now!

It does exactly what we want it to.. get our data. If you need to export your data, check it out. It’s open source and hosted over on Google code: 

http://code.google.com/p/pistachiomedia-simpledb-export/

When you get your data, why not say thank you to Gary on Twitter, he developed it

Google Suggest is a nifty feature of Google. It shows you a list of searches and the number of results before you actually search.

Firefox has accessed this list for a while now but only today did I notice that the results also include results from Google calculator, which as my main calculator I find very useful. 

Hope you do to.

Update: so this is old news. But I’d missed it, hopefully you didn’t.

Photo by sizemore

Hopefully everyone reading this has had a chance to visit the Social Media Cafe in London, every Friday at the Coach and Horses, if not I highly recommend it.

Brighton branch? Josh Russell (my partner in many-a-crime) is organising the Brighton Social Media Cafe, 11am every Saturday upstairs at the Quadrant. Unfortunately doesn’t look like I’ll be able to make the first, but I recommend you do.

At dConstruct for the last few years I organized ‘pre-dConstruct pre-party Burgers’ (still time to signup for this years), for some it’s almost tradition now… I thought, “let’s do the same for Flash On The Beach“:

Add yourself to the Upcoming.org event so I can warn GBK in advance.

If Technorati limit feed bodies to 140 characters don’t they already have a “decentralized” Twitter? And search. And advertising platform. And ping. And funding. And… identi.ca who?

Looking through the Techcrunch f8 notes Facebook seem to be touching on the big picture of a few things. I’d assume they get this. Should be an interesting year.

What are the consequences (positive, and negative) of having a public todo list? I’m sure I’m not the first person to wonder, anyway..

Something you wanted me to do? Just prefix your tweet “@builtbydave #todo” and it’ll appear in my public todo list & my feed reader. Here’s one I sent to Aral:

What’d the use be on something like this outside of todo’s, i.e. sending a link. Not to dissimilar to del.icio.us for:builtbydave tag… @builtbydave #link? I’m sure my subconscious has me thinking about this from Alfie’s blog post, @everyone: The command line is mainstream.

While not following on from my last post (Twitter as a search engine?), this is about Twitter and search.

Via a Greasemonkey script we’ve added a search box to Twitter that will take you to their newly acquired search, yes.. their current interface doesn’t have a search through tweets function.

Greasemonkey users, here’s the install link.