http://www.pud.com Ask me anything Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:01:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Flickr API is awesome, as is Flickr's new video support -- it only took about 5 lines of code on my end to get Mobog working with video. That's right -- if your mobile phone does video, you can now send those videos to Mobog! See a test video from me ... http://www.pud.com/2008/05/video-on-mobog-or-flickr-api-is-awesome.html Mobog now has an embeddable widget you can add to your site to automatically show your latest mobile pic on your website or blog.  See the "Mobile Pictures" photo in the right column on Pud.com for an example. It's always fun to update your blog just by snapping a pic from ... http://www.pud.com/2008/05/upload-mobile-pictures-to-your-blog.html I worked on Mobog this weekend.  It lets you upload pics from your phone to the Web.  Check it out and let me know what you think: http://www.mobog.com http://www.pud.com/2008/05/have-fun-with-mobog.html Here's the history of Coca-Cola: Pemberton's French Wine Coca (cocaine wine) is invented Inventor removes the wine (prohibition) and calls it Coca-Cola Inventor removes the cocaine (prohibition) and people still buy it. There's a business lesson here but I'm not sure what it is. Pictured: Me in Atlanta with John Pemberton, inventor. http://www.pud.com/2008/04/coca-cola-history.html I get a lot of requests to bring back Mobog, the camera phone site I conceived and launched over a weekend in early 2004. Mobog let you send in pictures from your camera phone and instantly post them to the community.  The site was popular but I took it down after ... http://www.pud.com/2008/04/mobog-subject-of-berkeley-research.html I admit it, I wrote my first PHP program tonight. I've been programming since I was around 12 (i'm 32 now). In high school I used Pascal. In college I used C. My first job out of college was programming in Live Wire (server-side Javascript - wow, it ... http://www.pud.com/2008/04/programming.html Check out Ask Pud's new cleaned up design. I've been meaning to do this for a long time... new features include prettier commenting, "next page" link on the bottom of each page, and more. Also I decided to start writing my titles with the proper capitalization -- "New Design" instead ... http://www.pud.com/2008/04/new-design-2.html Okay I realize I've been totally slacking on answering your questions. The questions are piling up and my lack of responses is unacceptable. Here's an experiment: I'll post a question here for you to answer. Pud.com has hundreds of readers every day -- at least one of you should ... http://www.pud.com/2008/04/the-wisdom-of-crowds.html Is anyone else clicking "restart later" every 10 minutes, after the most recent Windows update? Going on 3 days or so, still haven't rebooted. This popup is driving me crazy. http://www.pud.com/2008/04/automatic-updates.html http://www.pud.com/2008/04/family.html