Google yesterday released a chart API that let’s you create great looking charts on the fly using the data/settings provided in the url. It supports a bunch of charts like line chart, bar chart, pie chart, Venn diagrams and gives you pretty much complete control over how the charts look. You can choose size, color [...]

If you have used Yahoo Pipes, you would have noticed that it’s great at combining feeds, applying operators, filtering etc, but when it comes to showing the data on UI, you’re pretty much left on your own. The “Run Pipe” option does come with some sort of UI, but it’s not useful if you [...]

In one of the previous posts, I had written about Google Mashups editor and how it complements Yahoo Pipes. Here is a small mashup I created sometime ago which puts that concept to use.
The mashup I am going to talk about can be seen here. It’s a simple application that given the name of the [...]

Looking around on the web, it seems the biggest hurdle that people face while writing a Facebook application in java is getting the authentication piece to work. There are some blogs where the solutions have been posted, and that would work. However, I noticed that they recommend using login servlet url as the callback [...]

I recently tried to get my hands dirty with Facebook application development platform. I know there are a bunch of resources available on the web to help you in the process, but when I was trying get my tiny app to work, I realized there were a few things which aren’t explained too well on [...]

I recently signed up for Google Mashups beta. When they asked me to sign up for beta, I didn’t really expecting hearing back from them anytime soon, but to my surprise they activated my account for beta in a matter of couple of days! I have been playing around with Yahoo pipes and such, so [...]