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YQL - Yahoo! Query Language
The Yahoo! Query Language is an expressive SQL-like language that lets you query, filter, and join data across Web services. YQL's possibilities are virtually endless, say you want to get specific Flickr Images containing a defined word in the title, or you want to geo-code some addresses on the fly. YQL makes those tasks extremely easy by just forming a simple query that gathers the data. Output can be switched ...

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Easy piwik integration for Roundcube webmail
First public release of my Roundcube plugin to easily tie in piwik web analytics. With this plugin you can integrate your piwik website statistics into Roundcube, to let you see data about the people using your self hosted webmail. The plugin is free software and can be downloaded at the Roundcube Webmail piwik analytics plugin page.

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Instacities - guess what city it is
Oliver just released a new browser game called Instacities that lets you guess what city is displayed, based on photos taken via Instagram. Beware: It's a highly addictive game :) There are plans to have a highscore table and deeper Facebook integration in the future, so be sure to check back often and follow Oliver on Twitter to stay up to date.

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Facebook Send Button WordPress Plugin
Facebook has released their new "Send" button that lets you share content all over the web with selected groups or individuals. I wrote a little plugin that will insert this button under every post in your blog including the correct permalink. This is version 0.1 and very basic. Head over to the project site to download and read about upcoming features.

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BSS - Brainfusion Surveillance System
Last weekend I sat down and built a surveillance system, including an iPhone webapp, for my apartment using my old iBook, an external iSight, the Webcam Software EvoCam and a set of scripts in AppleScript, PHP and some shell scripts. The whole thing is pretty custom made but I'll document it here anyway and with a basic understanding of the technology it should be fairly easy to reproduce with whatever hardware y...

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Automatically add links from emails to Safari Reading List
This is kind of a stripped down version of Read It Later or Instapaper, but functions perfectly for my workflow. Requirements Apple Mail Apple Safari (with Reading List Support) ifttt Account First I've set up actions in ifttt that forward Links I favorite in Twitter or Google Reader, to my personal Email and prepend the subject with "#ReadLater". Next I constructed a Mail Rule that acts on all ...

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Microformats book
My thesis has been published as a book and can be purchased via Amazon by clicking on the cover below (affiliate link). Please make sure to write loads of positive reviews on the Amazon page! Thanks ;)

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