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Saturday, October 18

Seattle Webcam Flip Book Project

I'm started a little long term project I am calling the Seattle Webcam Flip Book.

web cam imageEvery time you visit the site I'll save my web cam image of Seattle. Then in about a year's time I will have a gallery of web cam images that I can correlate with my site visit logs. The result being a nice flip book animation of the city built by my site visitors.

Typically the web cam is a shot from Queen Anne hill and captures the Space Needle but sometimes it points to the Marina. So the flip book may jump around a bit from location to location unfortunately. Also, I don't get a ton of visitors so it's unlikely the flip book will be anything like time lapse photography. To do that I'll start a new project that saves a picture via a cron job.

Also the image now changes it's text depending on the time of day in Seattle.

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Thursday, October 16

Becoming Ubiquitous

If you are a Firefox power user and consume many Web services like Google Maps, Twitter, or, um, email, you are going to like what you can do with the Ubiquity extension for the Firefox browser.

This video does a good job explaining how powerfu and useful Ubiquity can be in mashing up various Web 2.0 services.



I particularly like being able to drop in Google Maps into my emails or emailing portions of web pages.

Being able to check the weather by simply typing 'weather seattle' is very nice too.

While Ubiquity is still in alpha release, it's pretty handy and there is already a great many third party developers extending it with their own scripts. In future posts I'll show how I use Ubiquity for PHP and Flash development using third party scripts, and introduce a couple Ubiquity scripts of my own.

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