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Facebook Open Graph at ekstrabladet.dk

(This post is a straight-up translation from Danish of a post on the Ekstra Bladet development blog)
Right before the 2010 World Cup started, ekstrabladet.dk (the Danish tabloid where I work) managed to get an interesting implementation of the new Facebook Open Graph protocol up and running. This blog post describes what this feature does for [...]

Roskilde Festival 2010 Schedule as XML

@mortenjust and @claus have created the excellent Roskilde Festival Pocket Schedule Generator. They gave me access to their schedule data, and I’ve used that to scrape more tidbits from the Roskilde Festival website. Fields are:

Name (all caps)
Stage where band plays
Time of performance (in UNIX and regular datetime)
Roskilde Festival website URL
Countrycode
Myspace URL
Band website URL
Picture URL
Video-embed-html
Tag-line

Get it [...]

Google sampled my voice and all I got was this lousy T-shirt!

I’ve just submitted a voice-sample to help Google in their efforts to build Danish-language voice search. See what voice search is about in this video. In case anyone is interested, here’s how Google goes about collecting these samples.
The sampling was carried out by a Danish-speaker hired by Google for the specific task. The sampling was done [...]