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…aren’t quite as pleased with MultiMap’s relaunch as me…

It’s a real problem. A real real problem. With the rebellion of Flickr users after the change to Yahoo! IDs the move to migrate upcoming.org to its new home at upcoming.yahoo.com and Yahoo! IDs is being a bit more sensitively handled. Still, there will no doubt be a furore and accusations of selling out.

Seriously though, what did people think was going to happen? Yahoo! just buys these things and doesn’t integrate them into its infrastructure and systems? Don’t be daft. Happy then should be happy now.

It does mean I might actually have to get a Yahoo! id after all though.

I can’t be the only person that’s starting to get really pissed off with all these popups leaping up all over every page I visit, can I? At least give me the option to turn it off, please. It is the <marquee> tag of 2007. Snap must die.

Announcing Netvibes Universe. That said, this and Yahoo! pipes and our time as mashup kings might be over

That’s an awesome number given the time it’s been around.

They’ve been lagging behind for a while, but multimap have just launched a new site (click the link on the top left). Much improved. Much much improved. I haven’t had a chance to play much yet, but it does look a whole heap better. And the maps are much clearer too - compared to google maps the old ones looked appalling, so although on aesthetic it’s a really important move.

I am lucky to be able to (and to want to) get obsessed about things that I’m working on… The latest thing that appears to impinging on my every conscious moment is data visualisation generally and mapping in particular. Latest find? worldmapper.org, where states are distended according to statistics. Now what I want is a program that does this for arbitrary data….

adju.st moves to wordpress from MT.

I shall be with you shortly…

We’ve had gmailfs, now here’s a MySQL interface to Amazon’s S3. Nice

Light switch. I think we all knew this was coming….