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nelson : Google Static Maps API - for when you'd rather inline an image than javascript
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deusx : Public Open Source Services / FrontPage - "You use the same Google Merchant account that App Engine debits as the one that accepts donations. This way no bank account is involved. Then you track the money that goes into the account (using the Google Merchant IPN equivalent). Then you look at
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Anil : The Twitter API is Finished. Now What? - Update: We've got some results already! Joseph Scott at Automattic mentions in the comments that he's added RSD support for the Twitter API to WordPress.com. I should also make clear that I am very confident that we'll be building apps on top of this API
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Anil : The Twitter API is Finished. Now What? - Twitter's API has spawned over 50,000 applications that connect to it, taking the promise of fertile APIs we first saw with Flickr half a decade ago and bringing it to new heights. Now, the first meaningful efforts to support Twitter's API on other servic
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deusx : W3C FileAPI in Firefox 3.6 at hacks.mozilla.org - "Often, web applications will prompt the user to select a file, typically to upload to a server. Unless the web application makes use of a plugin, file selection occurs through an HTML input element, of the sort <input type="file"/>.
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philgyford : Parse JSON with jQuery and JavaScript redux using the Flickr Services API | d'bug - I've read oodles of JavaScript examples on weblogs recently and it's so nice to occasionally find one that explains things well, has good working examples, and inspires confidence. Shouldn't be rare, but is.
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bmilleare : Evri - Developer Portal - Keyword Entity Extraction API
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deusx : Palm Pre Mojo SDK experiments at updates @ m.blog - "As a new Pre owner, I was curious to learn to code for the Palm WebOS SDK (Mojo). Whenever I try to learn a new technology, I try to build a functional test project. So… what to build for WebOS? Since the Pre’s web browser doesn’t currently su
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Simon Willison : Yahoo! Placemaker - Yahoo! Placemaker. Really exciting new API from Yahoo!—Placemaker accepts a block of text (or a URL to HTML or RSS) and extracts and returns geographical locations mentioned in the text. I just ran my djng blog entry through it and it pulled out “Pr
Andy Baio : Yahoo! Placemaker, extract world locations from unstructed content - also, Yahoo released the huge GeoPlanet/WOE placename database under a CC license
philgyford : Yahoo! Placemaker_ Beta - YDN - Parses text and extracts any recognisable locations. (via Simon Willison)
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Simon Willison : The Little Manual of API Design (PDF) - The Little Manual of API Design (PDF). A concise, highly readable guide to designing APIs that are “Complete, Easy to learn and memorize, lead to readable code, hard to misuse, and easy to extend”, based on lessons learnt over many years of developm
philgyford : The Little Manual of API Design (PDF) - Sounds like a handy thing for future reference. (via Simon Willison)
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nelson : Google Chartmaker - simple Javascript tool for interactively building a Google chart
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Andy Baio : Flickr launches new Panda API methods - three different pandas, each with their own taste in Flickr photos
Rod Begbie : The History of the Panda, New APIs, Explore and You - Flickr now serves up Panda APIs so you can build your own rainbow-vomiting app. (Don't forget that Flickr feeds also come in LOLCODE flavours) #
Simon Willison : Panda Tuesday; The History of the Panda, New APIs, Explore and You - Panda Tuesday; The History of the Panda, New APIs, Explore and You. Flickr’s Rainbow Vomiting Panda of Awesomeness now has a family of associated APIs.
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nelson : Yahoo API pricing - $1 / 10,000 spell corrections, $1 / 3000 search results, off peak is cheaper
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deusx : twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml - If you're locked out of Twitter, try checking out this API method with HTTP Basic Auth using your Twitter credentials. It reports on limit, remaining hits to limit, and time until reset. I'm locked out, and it reports my remaining hits at 0 wi
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Linkorama : Twitter comes clean - Regardless of the anger in the community, which clearly has been discounted as a small minority in Twitter’s game plan, the clarity of Twitter’s rate limiting and brute force approach in managing its developer community now stand in sharp contrast to
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Andy Baio : New York Times releases Campaign Finance API - totals for each candidate by state or ZIP code and lookup by donor name, with JSON, XML, or serialized PHP output [via]
joshua : Announcing the New York Times Campaign Finance API - Open - Code - New York Times Blog
Simon Willison : Announcing the New York Times Campaign Finance API - Announcing the New York Times Campaign Finance API. The New York Times have released their first data API, exposing campaign finance data from the Federal Election Commission. [via]
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18 month ago
deusx : Netflix API: Looking good - Laughing Meme - "Netflix was pretty much the last place I was Web 2.0 style share cropping, creating value without a way to get it out. The Netflix API has been rumored for a long time, but with today’s release they really did an excellent job."
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18 month ago
joshua : Netflix API : Introducing the Netflix API
Andy Baio : Netflix launches public Javascript, Atom, REST APIs - as Kellan points out, it comes with OAuth, a developer blog, and an API explorer [via]
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18 month ago
joshua : The API Bug Hits Old Retail and Old Media - lots of folks adding APIs
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19 month ago
joshua : TextMarks - Developers Center - Make information accessible from any cell phone - via text messages. Coordinate Activities. Express Yourself!
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20 month ago
philgyford : Google Maps API Tutorial - Lots of examples for how to do things with Google Maps. (via Tim Brayshaw)
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21 month ago
Linkorama : Get Ready For A New Platform War. - Google has made no secret of its plans to target and harm Microsoft, and they know that the best way to go about that is to make the operating system irrelevant by moving up a layer and turning the browser into a standard, but powerful, virtual machine fo
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joshua : Yahoo Opens Address Books to 3rd-Party Developers
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