Dan Olsen’s Weblog

It looks like I’ll be going to IIW 2006 Part A with Phil Windley in a week and half. He approached me yesterday about coming and doing the running around for the workshop. I don’t mind the running around, it’s a small price to pay to hear what people have to say.

The great thing is that it is being held at the Computer History Museum. That should be fun. If you haven’t registered to come head over to the registration page and sign up now.

Today Google announced the release of the Google Calendar Data API.

I don’t have as much time as I wish I had to make something fun and useful using Google’s many APIs but I do like the fact that they provide such a service. I currently have a brother-in-law in South Korea. Since the family is all here in the US I created a map that shows where he is and where he has been with some basic information. It was fun to spend some time playing around with the Google Maps API.

Now, if I could come up with a cool page that integrates all these services into one useful service. If anyone has any good ideas or knows of anyone who has mashed together all these services into something cool, I’d like to hear about it.