As much as I hate to admit it, I drink Starbucks… rather often. So I went to try and use this experiment at my local ‘bux, but everytime I got there, the card was empty! Not only that, but it took so much time to check the balance (via the twitter stream) and then flip over to my photos app, find the photo of the card, and scan it- by the time I had done everything what little balance was on the card, was gone. So I thought, this can be better.

Coffee Check by Dan Wasyluk

Using the APIs provided by Jonathan, I’ve created “Coffee Check“. Coffee Check is a bare bones web app designed to do one thing, check the balance of Jonathan’s card. If there is cash- you get the card image right there, and don’t have to fumble through switching apps, swiping through photos and so on. If it’s empty… it’ll let you know, and may just prompt you to add some cash to it . Very bare bones, but functional, and targeted toward mobile users (should work on any browser though). Make sure to add it to your home screen (it has a pretty iOS home screen icon and everything). Now all you need to do it press the icon from your home screen and voila! Enjoy

*Update*: How to Add to Home Screen

1. Load up http://thedanosphere.com/coffee in Safari on your phone.
2. Follow the instructions located here: iPhone 101: Add Mobile Websites to Home Screen.
3. Now you can access ‘Coffee Check‘ just like a normal iOS App!

FacebookExport.com is a simple tool that exports the majority of your Facebook data to an XML file. My hope is that other sites will create parsers that allow you to import the data into other services like wordpress, posterous, flickr, etc. I’m calling the format “FBE”, short for “FaceBook Export”. I’m not sure how long the tool will be live so hurry and reclaim your data while you still can!

Here is a small sample of  my personal profile exported, as you can see by the scrollbar on the right, there is a TON of data not shown in this image, but its all there in the export file.

That’s all for now, more later!

In the meantime checkout this vid, it’s a little long but in all fairness it’s pretty hard to describe what the Decision Lens Suite does in a succinct way, it’s a very powerful software platform with a wide range of uses-and the video goes a long way in explaining that. Check it out, for more info visit the Decision Lens website.

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