I don’t blog anymore… shame really.

I’ve been incredibly busy working on kazle.com, a new social agregation tool that got released properly, 3 days ago. It got released and we got assisted with a ton of improvements and bug finds from users and I’ve been working on some of them along with some improvements of my own.

We have a million and one idea’s for Kazle, so it’s going to be keeping us busy for quite a while me thinks.

You’ll never guess what, I was contemplating about porting over to Wordpress, mainly for the in-site customisability, although I’ve already cracked that, with my feed. I just thought I’d see how it looked. I installed it over at http://www.nickbabenko.co.uk/blog_new, did a bit of work on the design and gave up. Tumblr all the way.

At present I’m revamping the Kazle register page, along with Facebook Connect for easy login. On the site at present, it states we will support OpenID but after some poking around we have decided against it, for starters, sending our users elswhere before they’ve even logged in is insane, they really need to update their services and they should use Facebook Connect as inspiration, I can’t imagine barely anyone use OpenID and therefore we’ve voted against it, for now, atleast. Now, Facebook Connect is a service to provide, there’s so many people with a Facebook account and as we intend on offering as many of Facebook’s service as as we can, bringing users from Facebook including their actual account is a service to provide, including the fact, they can login and register to Kazle using one single popup is fantastic.

Got some other things in the works such as a Kazle iPhone application, although I am lacking an iPhone for testing and the iPhone simulator isn’t quite an iPhone. I’ve been putting together some designs as well, which I have to say, do look quite good and once I learn a bit more about Objective-C and  XCode it’ll be my best app ever and also my first.

To go with the iPhone application comes the Kazle API, this is almost finished, the basic command structure and authentication is complete, it’s simply a case of porting the commands to do what they are supposed to do and then some testing. As well as the Wiki and public applications area of Kazle. We will be using a local authentication method with the use of sessions for API users but I’ve been thinking a lot about login procedures and how things are to look on client websites, based on using a lot of API’s myself, they need to look and feel good, rather than stealing their users, we don’t want that, we want to work with their users.

I must get back to work, have a good day :)

I thought it was about time i also had somewhere to put some of my my work, my design work and application work. So, I made myself a new website. Just a nice, simple and clean design, not too much content but just enough.

Check out my work, I’ve created a slide show type script, which is a modified version of FancyZoom originally created by Panic’s Cabel Saser. I think it works quite well, jumpy at times but I’m not much of a mathmetician like Cabel, I’m just good at figuring out how things work.

There’s also information about me, my work history and soon to be a downloadable pdf of my C.V. and possible a VCard if anyone wishes to add me to their Address Book, you just never know do you?

A live feed of my Tumblog, displaying what I want really. As it’s a PHP script that retrieves my 20 latest, although I’ll be adding pages very soon, it also means that I can do exactly what I want with it, I can restrict post types, style it exactly how I want, although Tumblr are very lose with that.

Also, a contact page, with a form to allow anyone to send me a direct email. Again, just incase anyone wishes to contact me for something interesting, you just can never be too carful these days.