links for 2009-01-19

• BBC NEWS | Americas | Full text: Bush's final speech
  "President George W Bush has strongly defended his record in office during his farewell television address to the American people. This is the full text of the speech."
  (tags: speeches bbc gwb)
• Making Light: The true history of the Bush years
  "Now, in this moment before a changing world overwrites our memories of the era, let us pause to salute our constant companion of those years: The Onion. Other histories of the Bush years will doubtless be more factual, but none will ever be truer. "
  (tags: humour politics us)
• Nicole Sullivan: "Design Fast Websites" on Yahoo! Video
  "Web performance expert Nicole Sullivan discusses a set of best practices in the creation of supremely fast, visually impactful web sites."
  (tags: design webdesign speed webdev css performance)
• Official Google Maps API Blog: Creating a User-Contributed Map: Look, Ma – No server side scripts!
  "Fortunately, the recent release of forms for Google Spreadsheets means it is now possible (with just a tiny bit of hacking and wizardry) to create a user contributed map without any server-side scripting and with the added bonus of Google hosting the data for you. "
  (tags: google+maps geo mashup api tutorial)
• Google Documents List Data API – Google Code
  "The Google Documents List Data API allows client applications to upload documents to Google Documents and list them in the form of Google Data API ("GData") feeds. Your client application can request a list of a user's documents, and query the content in an existing document. "
  (tags: docs goggledocuments api)
• Morphing gel display puts images at your fingertips – tech – 14 January 2009 – New Scientist
  "A tactile display made from a watery gel that changes shape to show objects on its surface has been developed by German electrical engineers."
  (tags: accessibility display assistive+technologies)
• http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/spreadsheetsmapwizard/makecustommap.htm
  "Embed a dynamic map of a public Google Spreadsheet on your webpage. After loading in your spreadsheet data and customizing the map, you can copy the generated code into your webpage. An example spreadsheet's data and map of great Seattle restaurants has been pre-loaded. You can view the original spreadsheet in HTML or XML. "
  (tags: web2.0 google+maps spreadsheet wizard gdata geography)
• zembly blog
  (tags: facebook zembly blog)
• Zembly Lets You Build Facebook Apps Without the Code
  "…By reusing UI and back-end code and encouraging the crowd-sourcing of app components, Zembly markets itself as a sort of free library for social applications — live and editable code that can grow as users decide to contribute…"
  (tags: facebook code apps app zembly)
• zembly / Gambits from Gail
  "What is zembly? zembly is a social programming site that lets you build (and host!) applications for Facebook, Meebo, OpenSocial (such as Orkut and MySpace). zembly also makes it easy to build services, widgets, and web applications for the iPhone."
  (tags: zembly facebook web2.0 sun mashup for.jsalonen)

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