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Of course it's good news that the BBC's in-house Javascript library, Glow has been released as open source. It's a very respectable chunk of code, with some quite nice built-in widgetry. But why on earth should the BBC have its own Javascript library in the first place? Its 'lead product manager' - itself a worrying [...] read on »

Google's javascript API has an exciting, and somewhat underreported little feature built in: each time a call is initiated, it attempts to establish where the browser is physically located - and reports back a town, 'region' (county) and country. I was wondering if it was accurate enough to be used to 'personalise' a website automatically: [...] read on »

One of the more inspiring developments at the BBC recently has been the extension of iPlayer away from the desktop PC. Back in April, they launched iPlayer on the Wii - but it wasn't the breakthrough moment it might have been. Leaving aside the fact it didn't stream especially smoothly on my machine, the interface [...] read on »

Time for some tech talk. A few weeks back, I wrote about Google's new AJAX Feed API. Having played with it last week on behalf of a client, and having liked what I saw, I decided to implement it myself. If you're reading this on the puffbox.com website itself, you might see a list in the [...] read on »