There’s this really common use-case I’ve seen at Codebar and Homebrew Website Club, where someone is making a static site, but they just want a contact form that sends data via email. This looks like a handy third-party service to do just that. No registration required: it’s all done via the value of the action attribute in the opening form tag:
action="https://formspree.io/your@email.com"
When I’ve been helping Codebar students on their personal projects, everything goes great until some kind of server-side processing is needed. Nine times out of ten, that server-side processing simply doing something with the contents of a contact form. This looks like it could be a useful service to plug into little projects like that.
I’ve been suggesting h-event and h-card as open standards for UK government sites.
A free PDF download from NASA on all things SETI, specifically the challenges of interspecies interstellar communication.
A nine-point document that constitutes a "Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence."
Nice Huffduffer-style contact form.
A cute little Mac app that exports your address book contacts in multiple formats ...including an HTML file with hCards!
As promised by Kevin Marks in the Q&A after my panel at South by Southwest, the Google Contacts API now supports OAuth. w00t!
Now this is how to do the "find your friends" trick. For GMail, Yahoo Mail, and Hotmail, Flickr never once asks for your password. Bravo!
A lovely visual of contacts of your Twitter contacts, exploring those six degrees.
Sarah mocks up an interface for importing contacts across social networks.
A cool way of looking at photos from your Flickr contacts, built using the Flickr API by Jason Garber and Jeremy Carbaugh (who are here with me at Refresh Orlando).