As "Instant" Services Proliferate, Instantise Gives Them All A Home
Yesterday I wrote about how all web services could possibly be more useful with some “Instantization”; Scottish engineer Tam Denholm had the very same idea, and built Instantise to house the recent outcrop of Google Instant-inspired services on one URL (The American usage “Instantize” also redirects).
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On the Instantise homepage you can find original instant search gangster Google, YouTube Instant, Maps Instant, Images Instant and the Denholm-created Hacker News Instant, Twitter Instant, and even PHP.net Instant. Hacker News Instant is especially delightful.
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Denholm holds that the concept was “inspired/stolen from Michael Hart who got inspired/stole from Feross Aboukhadijeh who got inspired/stole from Google [and boredom]”, once again proving that especially in coding, good artists copy, great artists steal.
Update: Denholm has added Techmeme Instant to Instantise’s roster of homebrew services.
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