Category Archives: Web

Blog posts about web development and Internet technology.

YouComment – A Fancy Video Comment Reader

Posted on 5/1/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

I have added another page to my collection of “value added services” for YouTube users. This one is an improvement over the YouTube comment system. You can find it on my web site at: http://www.williamsportwebdeveloper.com/YouComment.aspx  The comment system is an … Continue reading →

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More Pageflakes and YouTube API Work

Posted on 4/25/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

I’ve been busy with the Pageflake developers API and the YouTube API. The Pageflakes documentation is not very good so I had to figure out how to display the loading bar without using their showProgress() method that I can’t get … Continue reading →

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Custom Pageflake For YoTube Countdown Timer

Posted on 4/19/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

It was pointed out to me that LiveVideo has already added a tab called LiveStart to show how Pageflakes will be integrated into LiveVideo. I don’t know if LiveVideo will open their platform to third-party developers the way Facebook has … Continue reading →

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Pageflakes Mashed Up With LiveVideo

Posted on 4/18/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

Pageflakes has already been mashed up with LiveVideo! You can get a preview of how their technology will be combined at: http://livevideo.pageflakes.com/. There are already some LiveVideo pageflakes available now so you can add LiveVideo Featured Videos to your existing … Continue reading →

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LiveVideo To Integrate Pageflakes

Posted on 4/18/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

According to TechCrunch, LiveVideo will be integrating PageFlakes into their social networking platform. This is an interesting development because before LiveVideo came out with their new web site features I did a video on Web Parts. I also posted a … Continue reading →

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Export YouTube Favorites To Excel

Posted on 4/17/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

Tonight I uploaded a new web page to my web site that allows you to back up your YouTube Favorites to Excel:http://www.williamsportwebdeveloper.com/FavBackUp.aspx You should back up your YouTube account information because you never know when they will delete your account … Continue reading →

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YouCloud – YouTube Video Tag Clouds

Posted on 4/14/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

I’ve begun to put my web application skills to work on some personal projects instead of client projects. Since I’m heavily into online video and the vlogging community I want to do something in that online space. I have a … Continue reading →

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Silverlight Aggravation, Accounting Basics For Programmers, And Storefront

Posted on 4/13/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

Last week I wasted a lot of time on Silverlight. I used the word “wasted” because after putting a lot of time in a project I discovered that it is impossible to create a simple hyperlink! I could scarcely believe … Continue reading →

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Recent Technology Research

Posted on 4/2/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

I really want to return to creative pursuits but I’ve been spending most of my free time keeping up with changes in technology. I have a long list of research that I plan to do. Over the past week I … Continue reading →

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Twitter And Yahoo! Maps API

Posted on 3/27/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

I’ve been reading the book “Amazon.com Mashups” by Francis Shanahan. This book covers more than the Amazon API so it has proven to be very useful in introducing me to many other Web 2.0 APIs. Its example for using the … Continue reading →

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AJAX And JSON Are Making JavaScript Very Popular

Posted on 2/17/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

I’ve been doing a lot of work with JavaScript lately. JavaScript has become very popular due to the AJAX craze. Every Web 2.0 site has to do something impressive with AJAX so web developers are becoming more creative with JavaScript. … Continue reading →

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My Blog Has Been Restored

Posted on 2/15/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

Unfortunately, a snafu by my hosting company, http://www.freeservers.com/, downgraded my hosting account. I visited my web site last Friday evening and saw a lot of advertising on my site. I called my hosting company to have that removed but then … Continue reading →

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Pownce, Technorati, YouTube Pocket PC, and C#

Posted on 1/30/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

Here is a list of last week’s activities: I have finished my Pownce widget using their API which provides JSON data. I completed a Technorati widget for searching blogs. I figured out how to convert YouTube videos for the Pocket … Continue reading →

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Amazon Mashups, Expression Web VBA, JSON Viewer

Posted on 1/24/2008 by Robert S. Robbins

Here is a list of what I’ve been doing for the last two weeks:1. Started working with the Amazon web services API. I added a web page to my help collection Notes which gets my programming books wish list from … Continue reading →

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Cutting Down On Research And Studying

Posted on 11/29/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I’ve decided to cut down on the amount of new technology research and studying I’m doing. It is getting to be too time-consuming and scattered. I need to focus more on doing billable work. In particular, I am not going … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Expression Blend

Posted on 10/29/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

I looked at the Microsoft Expression Blend web site today to see if it was anything that I would be interested in. Expression Blend appears to have some of the same features as Adobe After Effects with keyframe animation, support … Continue reading →

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Netscape Navigator 9

Posted on 10/14/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

The Netscape Navigator 9 browser is now available for download at: http://browser.netscape.com/downloads/. I didn’t think any further development work was being done on Netscape Navigator. Everyone uses Internet Explorer or Firefox now. The most interesting new feature is that you … Continue reading →

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Semantically Rich Markup

Posted on 9/26/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

While reading my book on CSS today I came across the best explanation I’ve seen on how to structure your HTML code for the search engines. Unfortunately there is a lot of confusion about how to optimize HTML code for … Continue reading →

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How To Reference A CSS Class With JavaScript

Posted on 9/19/2007 by Robert S. Robbins

Some of the CSS topics in my help file were not displaying properly due to a problem with background image urls in CSS. This problem only appears in the Help 2.0 version of help collections for the Microsoft Document Explorer. … Continue reading →

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