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February 24, 2009

Introducing JSON Stackoverflow

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To all stackoverflow.com users, you can now add a nifty widget with your stackoverflow.com reputation and badge count to your website or blog. There is also a JSONP service which will provide you the raw data so that you can customise the display as you like. Head over to json-stackoverflow.appspot.com for all the nitty-gritties.

Feedback is appreciated!

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February 13, 2009

Live cricket scores for your blog made easy

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I will keep it short, just add the following Javascript snippet anywhere on your website or blog and you'll get live cricket scores courtesy  oCricket.com.

The Javascript snippet:

<script src="http://cdn.ocricket.com/assets/score_widget.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Feedback is appreciated!

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February 4, 2009

Recreating the new GMail buttons

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a portion of the background on our buttons here, and discuss some of the iterations we’ve been through so far to get to the current state.
via stopdesign.com

Interesting story of the design process that went behind the new GMail buttons.

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February 4, 2009

Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic

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Half a second delay caused a 20% drop in traffic. Half a second delay killed user satisfaction.
via glinden.blogspot.com

Interesting story from Marissa Mayer about an experiment Google conducted.

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February 4, 2009

A Clockwork Black: i was trying to avoid this

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i was trying to avoid writing this post and had succeeded at that goal for almost 2 years. after some recent exchanges, i see the wisest move is the opposite. so, here goes.
via blog.layer8.net

The story of how Amazon EC2 was born...

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