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While Twitter has released it's location API it has not fully integrated it into it's site just yet.  So as a developer if you are annotating tweets from your app with locations it may not be easy to tell if its working.  The simple solution is to look...

In the process of renaming our website from MyFriendSuggests.com to theSUGGESTR.com I found that most articles on this refer to using mod_rewrite to accomplish the redirect.  However for most us Java guys this may not be the way to go.  I used...

We are please to announce the official launching of MyFriendSuggests.com a social networking site that provides you personalized suggestions for restaurants, bars, clubs, doctors, grocery stores and just about anything else you can think of.  Unlike...

Tagging pages or items is a big part of the Web2.0 movement.  After doing some mild searching I didn't find a prebuilt API for working with tags for Java (found some PHP stuff).  So I created one to be used in the next release of our site...

I'm not much of a reader, but I just read a book Founders At Work, by Jessica Livingston.  It's basically a bunch of interviews done with various people who led some of the biggest startups of the past 10-20 years.  I found it to be a real...

This post builds on my previous post, in which we discuss how to scrape webmail sites for contacts.  Yahoo! is by far the easiest of the sites to scrape (of the major sites).  After you've sniffed the URLs used for the login you just need to replace...

Many new websites, especially those that depend on social networks, are now offering ways to import contacts from various WebMail sites.  I'm not going to go into the ethics of asking a user for their user name and password to a webmail site and...