Mike's Blabberings

I Just got an email from Google, describing a new feature of AdSense dubbed “interest-based advertising.”
I don’t think it’s any shock that Google has the data to segment users based on their browsing habits. The shocker to me is that they’re making the result of that segmentation available to webmasters everywhere.
The full [...]

If you’re like me, you’ve got a few friends on Twitter, but most others are hesitant to make the jump. Hell, I had a hard enough time convincing them (and myself really) to join Facebook. So what fun would it be if there weren’t any drunk pictures floating around, but rather just a [...]

Almost immediately after I decide to give Flickr another try-out, Picasa goes and announces a revamp of their own site.
I decided to give their facial recognition a try.  After visiting my picasa homepage, I clicked on the link suggesting that I try to identify my photos.  After a few minutes, I was redirected to a [...]

I ran across some good info for getting started creating Facebook apps in python:

docs: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Python
api: http://code.google.com/p/pyfacebook/
tutorial: http://keepnix.com/articles/hellominifb.html

The author at Zen Habits recently talked about wanting someone to develop a “social karma” application. The idea would be that one could do good deeds and get some sort of recognition for it, thus encouraging more do-good-ing. [...]