Puzzlepieces – June, 2007

Digg - Facebook Carpool: the First Useful Facebook Application - so the Facebook application I’ve been working on made #1 on digg. not bad.

By “working on,” I mostly mean giving my opinions and advice, as I don’t have the time to work on this right now, what with being back for another internship at Microsoft.

Someday I’ll write a longer post about this, but basically I’m really excited to be helping, even in a small way, with promoting a tool as fundamentally useful of this. Meeting new people, saving energy and money, etc.

Carpooling is a chicken-and-egg problem app. It’s only useful if there are a lot of people in the same place using it as well. Before being dugg, we had a lot of users in California and in Waterloo, whereas presumably these new users will be much more spread out. So it is a mixed blessing.

Anyhow, here’s hoping we change the world

High Earth Orbit » Blog Archive » OpenSearch Geo and Time extensions - I was working on something like this back when I was working on OpenSearch, but the industry and formats weren’t at the right stage. It’s great that the community is working on this now, there is so much potential. I like Andrew’s point “that is almost too easy.”

As always, DeWitt is involved. Here’s the latest draft.

A big OpenSearch roundup - it’s been a while since I posted an OpenSearch update, fortunately DeWitt has kept up with things better than I have. One thing seems clear: that OpenSearch is gaining adoption everywhere and moving into the future along with other standards, as it should. And where would we be without lolcats…