http://blog.pint.com The company blog for Pint Inc. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:25:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A year ago I mentioned that cross origin Ajax requests were coming and then got backed out of the last version of Firefox Well they are back now and they do work in Firefox 3.5 IE 8 landed similiar functionality using something called an XDR (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd573303(VS.85).aspx) Of course the big ... http://blog.pint.com/2009/07/06/cross-origin-ajax-requests-have-landed/ #TechCrunch discussing online mobs http://tinyurl.com/mm2ype opposite of wisdom of crowds and ironic since they kind of whip them up often # Bill Gates on Time mag. cover in the 1980s - http://twitpic.com/8sja9 "Computer software is magic inside the machine" :-) # "Web Site Story" video @ College Humor http://tinyurl.com/l6vfdx # Web ... http://blog.pint.com/2009/07/06/pint-tweets-for-2009-07-06/ Google is the modern day Oracle of Delphi.   Ask Google something and it tells you the answer, or at least that is how we Web commoners tend to think.  If so let's start with the basics, the things my three year old son needs to learn...the A,B,Cs. Of course your ... http://blog.pint.com/2009/06/30/google-abcs/ HTML 5 politix cartoon http://tinyurl.com/mkq5kt and yes Hixie =Google and don't forget Apple and Opera are there too. Watch out Microsoft # http://tinyurl.com/mlqxh4 No Twitter hating just dumb. If Twitter wins then phone,email,fax,blog,newspaper,smoke signals have been robbed! # Google itself on more SEO myths - page bloat and text ... http://blog.pint.com/2009/06/29/pint-tweets-for-2009-06-29/ A little gift from PINT to you. Please enjoy. [caption id="attachment_466" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Grid"][/caption] 1280x960 1280x1024 1600x1200 1680x1050 1920x1200 iPhone Black Berry Storm [caption id="attachment_473" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Loud"][/caption] 1280x960 1280x1024 1600x1200 1680x1050 1920x1200 iPhone Black Berry Storm [caption id="attachment_480" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Strings"][/caption] 1280x960 1280x1024  1600x1200 1680x1050 1920x1200 iPhone Black Berry Storm http://blog.pint.com/2009/06/24/3-new-wallpapers/ What is it about "X entries about topic Y" posts? http://tinyurl.com/lshnl4 I like em & they do drive traffic, but something still lacks. # More on URL shorteners http://tinyurl.com/kvu6ed They are a real problem and w/o twitter wouldn't be needed. Let's move forward not back. ... http://blog.pint.com/2009/06/22/pint-tweets-for-2009-06-22/ It's "Hot or Not" for the Twitter generation - http://tinyurl.com/l38a99 Yes it's a green start-up idea - it's recycled! #imbigontwitter # Internet '93 Video http://tinyurl.com/47jeqb I like the part about how people don't curse or are rude online, if only true :-) # See our press release here ... http://blog.pint.com/2009/06/15/pint-tweets-for-2009-06-15/ Here at PINT we do more than just work on cool technology, we also watch movies about it. Some are good, some are bad... but I took a poll, aggregated a few things and came up with this list of PINT's favorites in each category. We love this stuff and so ... http://blog.pint.com/2009/06/12/pints-top-movies-in-5-categories/ The folks over at Mozilla have created a nice lightweight way to customize your Firefox browser. The idea is instead of creating a theme for the browser, which is very complicated and time consuming for the average user. You can make just two images and give your browser a nice ... http://blog.pint.com/2009/06/10/put-your-persona-on/ Google Wave http://tinyurl.com/n9qkeo cool ideas from Groove, Notes, Firstclass BBSes, ...Note BBSes shout out in vid. Old is new again! # It 's Friday afternoon - Beer visualization time. http://tinyurl.com/l2oyt7 # Bing image test query - LOL Cats http://tinyurl.com/n6bgaa (BING) vs http://tinyurl.com/lx25tj (Google) Winner? Looks like a ... http://blog.pint.com/2009/06/05/pint-tweets-for-2009-06-05/