Browsing the tag XML
I came across some interesting data the other day detailing the top 300 yellow page headers for 2006. This list shows you the most popular categories listed in the local phone book, based on the number of total references to a particular category listing.
As you can see, the top 3 categories are:
Restaurants (Fast Foods, [...]
Gmail Gadget: Monitor Twitter Feeds
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I was reading over the Google Blog regarding a new feature that allows you to add any gadget by pasting in the URL of its XML spec file (e.g. http://www.google.com/ig/modules/youtube_videos.xml). I tested the feature and found that you can’t edit the Gadget settings within Gmail. So, I hacked a quick Gmail Gadget.
Graph Gear allows you to quickly render a customizable interaction graph that is described by a graph xml file. All you need to do is embed it in your page and pass the xml over javascript. It provides nice interactive capabilities and a force directed layout. The code is editable and compilable with MTASC, and it also features a javascript api to control graph interactions.