This is an important announcement: Development of TimeGlider in the Flash platform has stopped! The application will be in a state of suspended animation — and I will be less available for providing feedback and working out bugs — until a new HTML/Javascript version of the timeline interface is in running order.
I cut my teeth [...]
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Flash in freezer, Javascript on cutting board
August 25, 2010 – 12:56 pm
Platform Battles!
May 5, 2010 – 8:24 am
As the dust was settling from recent Adobe / Apple skirmishes (relating to Flash and the iPhone/iPad devices), Steve Jobs issued a lengthy “blog post” about Flash on Apple’s site, and this seems to put another nail in the coffin of Adobe’s iPhone packager.
In case this is news to you, to review:
1. Apple’s Safari browser [...]
An experiment with the NYT data API
February 12, 2010 – 4:45 pm
We’ve built the start of a timeline explorer using the New York Times Article Search API. It’s pretty fun, especially since you can search for, say, Mark Bittman’s seafood recipes. Please let us know what you think at feedback [at] timeglider.com.
in progress: calendar importing
January 27, 2010 – 11:42 pm
Thanks to TG user Steve Duncan (and other earlier feedbackers), I finally embarked on creating an importing system for iCal (Google and Apple calendars mainly). From the Plus tools, you’ll be able to sync multiple calendars onto a timeline, each calendar with its own assigned icon. The first stages are mostly complete: a decent parser [...]
We’re seeking timelines to feature on our home page
January 19, 2010 – 12:10 pm
Now that we have over 12,000 users, I’m sure that there are scads of marvellous timelines in our databases that would be great to feature — both to shine the light on our own product, but perhaps also to help spread the word about what you’re working on.
Do you have a timeline you’re proud of [...]
Some nice press coverage for TimeGlider
January 16, 2010 – 11:43 am
To be frank, we at TimeGlider (formerly Mnemograph) has made very few efforts to promote ourselves. About two years ago, we sent out invitations to about 30 prominent education technology bloggers telling them about ourselves, and have done little else since then. Strictly through word-of-mouth (delicious, twitter, blogs, etc etc) we’ve grown to having about [...]
I’m Back from the Moon
December 7, 2009 – 10:54 am
To those of you following this blog, it might seem as if it’s been an aeon since our last post — and since changes have been made to our application. Okay, in internet time, it has! This being a one-man band, my hiatus has meant some stillness here for a while. My wife and I [...]
Some daily history resources
August 14, 2009 – 10:27 am
On August 8, 1809, John Quincy Adams wrote, “Thick fogs all day. No observation. Saw a Schooner. Read Langhorne’s Life of Plutarch, and began with Theseus.” You can now follow Mr. Adams’s 200 year old musings (twitterable versions) by following him him on . . . Twitter thanks to the Massachusetts Historical Society.
The Massachusetts Foundation [...]
Bump from Slashdot
May 21, 2009 – 11:23 am
Wow, what a morning. We got a nice little mention in Slashdot — one of the most widely read science/tech blogs on the web — and signups are going through the roof. We’re also getting lots of positive feedback and helpful bug reports, including the fact that I’d forgotten to re-install our blog after a [...]
Big Thanks to Our Feedbackers!
April 24, 2009 – 3:55 pm
Wanted to send special thanks to all the people who have been writing in recently to report bugs, suggest features, and so forth. We’re a very small development team and we really do rely on the dialog we have with our users. A number of you have recently reported bugs and then helped in the [...]