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They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny.That made me the coolest aunt on earth. - Tina Yothers

On May 13th the TopCoder Truveo Developer Challenge was launched – with $100,000 in prize money up for grabs! The contest runs until July 21st! Truveo.com is a one stop place to search and browse the millions of videos available on the Internet today. Truveo searches metadata associated with video hosted around the Internet, producing some of the best video search results available.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. - Carson McCullers

In Part 1 I showed you how to get started with the MapQuest Advantage API by getting a developer key. In Part 2 I put that key to use by providing access to a basic map in the Map It! widget. Part 3 showed you how to incorporate basic geocoding. In Part 4 I discussed more advanced geocoding topics - including handling multiple matches and specifying geocode search options. Part 5 discussed adding widget options including the default zoom level, specifying point of interest icons, and the default map type. Part 6 discussed how to add direction capabilities to the widget. In this final installment I'll talk about how easy it is to integrate address searching with the Mac OS X Address Book application.

People are looking for original content in many different places, as are advertisers. This takes us into a whole new ballgame. – Jeff Zucker

I've been talking a lot about Userplane lately. In my previous blog posts (Make Cash with Userplane, Userplane Administration, Integrate Userplane with Wordpress - Part 1 and Part 2) I showed you how to begin integrating Userplane with your WordPress blog site, and in my article I showed you how to integrate Userplane Desktop with WordPress. Marty Kube also showed you how to begin working with Userplane in Facebook.

Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. - Clifford Stoll

This week I wanted to give a plug to my Userplane Desktop article that was just published, and talk just a bit more about how easy it really is to integrate Userplane Desktop authentication with your community. Userplane Desktop allows web communities to extend their presence beyond just their web site, pushing updates to user when they're made available.

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it. - Charlotte Bronte

You can publish existing Flash content with no coding changes at all! This will give you access to the yourminis widget reporting and syndication. It's as simple as 1-2-3!

It is not down in any map; true places never are. - Herman Melville

In Part 1 I showed you how to get started with the MapQuest Platform by getting a developer key. In Part 2, I put that key to use by providing access to a basic map in the Map It! widget. Part 3 showed you how to incorporate basic geocoding. In Part 4 I discussed more advanced geocoding topics - including handling multiple matches and specifying geocode search options. In this installment I'll discuss adding some options to the widget. Specifically I'll discuss setting the default zoom level when adding an API, specifying point of interest icons, and the default map type.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. - Andrew Carnegie

yourminis widgets provide an integrated distribution mechanism. As shown in Figure 1, wherever your widget is deployed, a Copy Me button is displayed whenever a user mouses over the widget.

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map. - Larry Wall

In Part 1 I showed you how to get started with the MapQuest Platform by getting a developer key. In Part 2 I put that key to use by providing access to a basic map in the Map It! widget. Part 3 showed you how to incorporate basic geocoding. In this installment I'll discuss more advanced geocoding topics - including handling multiple matches and specifying geocode search options.

Did you know you can start deploying yourmini widgets on the web and desktop instantly!? That's right! Stop by the yourminis gallery and you'll find yourminis in the following categories:

• Widgets
• Blogs
• Pages
• People

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done. - Ben Stein

In Part 1 I showed you how to get started with the MapQuest Advantage API by getting a developer key. In Part 2 I put that key to use by providing access to a basic map in the Map It! widget. In this installment I'll show you how to incorporate basic geocoding.