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I just came across this today and thought I'd share...

• http://bytes.com/forum/thread91223.html

One of our developers, Christine Albert, just emailed this one to me and I had to share...

Not sure if you've ever come across FAIL Blog before, but the attached image is one of the latest examples of a Microsoft failure that they've posted. :(

The original image was posted at http://failblog.org/2008/07/02/microsoft-fail/.

Yesterday I got us added on Twitter, and today I wanted to let you know that I've also created a FriendFeed account where you can get notified of the latest and greatest from the Awareness Labs site...

• http://friendfeed.com/awarenesslabs
  

If you don't already have a FriendFeed account you should definitely go sign up for one and then you can subscribe to us.

Leveraging TwitterFeed, we've setup a Twitter account to stream the conversations occurring here in the Labs site. You can follow us at...

• http://twitter.com/awarenesslabs

In anticipation of the contest to "Win an iPhone!" I thought it would be a good idea to add a "Top Projects" widget to allow us to see which projects are currently the most popular; think of it as the early poll results! :) 

You can check it out here...

• http://labs.awarenessnetworks.com/gallery/

Curious how I created this widget? Well it really only took a few calls to our API...

1. Made a call to post.get to get all the active posts/projects in the "Gallery" category
2. Built an array of all the posts that are returned
3. Made a call to vote.getratingresults to get all the posts that had been recommended and ordered them in descending order
4. Made another call to vote.getratingresults to return and display the actual number of recommendations for each of the projects

That's it...it was pretty simple. If you want to get the exact code to duplicate this functionality, you can just look under the covers and grab it...I did it all with JavaScript.

If you have any questions let me know...