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"the * is going to make the * look like the *" »

A search inspired by Huey Walker's quote from Flashback: "The 90's are going to make the 60's look like the 50's."

Karen and I Wearing Our TransLink/Google Transit Hats

Karen and I Wearing Our TransLink/Google Transit Hats

Which we got from the launch announcement at SFU Harbour Centre. Paul, Karen, and Gordon were there. So was I! Photo taken (and copyright) by JMV.

What if Google were actually evil? »

Cory Doctorow's fictional tale of the U.S. government outsourcing spying on its own citizens.

Towards a Greasemonkey Script Which Would Automatically Click "Update Conversation" in Gmail

August 16th, 2007

Most of my day I spend watching ticket updates via email. Google Mail (Gmail) has nice threading, so I can look at a conversation and expand/contract them, but if I send an email from the ticketing system, or someone in the conversation sends a reply, it adds a little link at the bottom that says "Update Conversation". Pretty handy, but there has never been time when I wanted to not update the conversation. This is a waste of time and a waste of a click: I should be able to have the conversation update in real time, much like Google Reader updates. Greasemonkey, a plugin for the Firefox web browser that transparently adds functionality to websites, should be able to do this.

I asked on Twitter if it was available, and Gabriel stepped up with an attempt, but it doesn't quite work. I'm pointing it out to get more eyeballs looking at this: I can't be the only one who wants something like this. Any Greasemonkey developers out there that can build upon Gabriel's work so we can get this working?

While we're on the subject, if you partake in the fine Greasemonkey and Gmail smokes, be sure to install the script which secures logging into Google's application. All it does is redirect http:// to https:// for requests to mail.google.com, which applies to all of us who use Google Mail for Domains as well.

Empire Alley

Empire Alley

It's past May 2nd, so I didn't get a chance to "Google It" to see if they were successful in not including a URL. It's AOL Keywords all over again.

Rogers Cadenhead is searching for ways to move up in Google's rankings »

I've been quietly using the tools (Google Webmaster, Google Sitemaps, 301 redirects, fixing broken links, appropriately tagging old posts, etc.) on my site to do effectively the same thing.

Karl has the 6-step cycle of many communities he's participated in »

Puis la communauté s'élargit, les créateurs initiaux ont dû mal à gérer l'affluence de nouveaux membres.

Ten Web 2.0 APIs you can really use »

I use some of them, but only ever through libraries since I hate parsing XML.
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