29 days ago
deusx : Weave 0.3 Prototype Server « Tapestry - "Feedback on the 0.3 API announcement went well, so it’s time to release a prototype of the server. The code is available from the weaveserver repository along with instructions for setting up a copy of the server and the local user creation API if
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deusx : REST APIs must be hypertext-driven » Untangled - "What needs to be done to make the REST architectural style clear on the notion that hypertext is a constraint? In other words, if the engine of application state (and hence the API) is not being driven by hypertext, then it cannot be RESTful and can
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4 month ago
deusx : Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Explaining REST to Damien Katz - "At this point, the benefits of building RESTful services for the Web should be self evident. The Web has a particular architecture and it makes sense that if you are deploying a service or API on the Web then it should take advantage of this archite
Simon Willison : Explaining REST to Damien Katz - Explaining REST to Damien Katz. I didn’t know that it was Mark Baker back in 2002 who first pointed out that SOAP was flawed because it ignored the architecture of the Web as defined by Roy Fielding’s Ph.D thesis.
Rod Begbie : Explaining REST to Damien Katz - A good "Wherefore REST?" post. [via] #
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7 month ago
mmb : http://tinydb.org/ - http://tinydb.org/ via programming: new: tinydb.org — similar to tinypic, but for chunks of XML / JSON data [via]
deusx : tinydb.org - "store some tiny data in a tiny url"
Andy Baio : TinyDB, store tiny data in a tiny URL - store variables with a POST or GET, get it back in JSON or XML [via]
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7 month ago
deusx : Introducing the Yahoo! Open Strategy (Yahoo! Developer Network blog) - "With Y!OS, we’re moving from a model in which each Yahoo! property develops much of its own technology to one where we share common data and frameworks that can be easily surfaced across multiple Yahoo! properties and off the Yahoo.com "
factoryjoe : Introducing the Yahoo! Open Strategy (Yahoo! Developer Network blog) - "And some more news: we’ll be supporting OAuth – look for the OAuth Consumer Key to replace the YDN App ID for new API signups here on the developer website very soon." Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: yah
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9 month ago
plasticbag : Fire Eagle - Easily share your location online! Personalise lots of sites and services! - We've just launched. I couldn't be more excited about this. 10,000 invitation codes are out in public right now and we're going to be announcing it formally on stage at ETech in an hour or so.
Simon Willison : Welcome to Fire Eagle! - Welcome to Fire Eagle!. It’s launched! A service and accompanying API for saving your physical location and selectively sharing it with applications that you trust.
Rod Begbie : Fire Eagle - Fire Eagle has launched -- a broker for your physical location, which other applications can use to improve user experiences. It's really just APIs and geekery at the moment, but the applications that use and enable it will start appearing pretty quickly #
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12 month ago
plasticbag : BravoNation is a new (invitation only) service from Yahoo! Brickhouse, where I work. It's the brainchild of Gordon Luk (one of the Upcoming founders)... - Also to be celebrated are Ernie Hsiung (of LittleYellowDifferent), Nikkil Bob and Kevin Cheng of OKCancel who also worked on the project. Small, agile, fun projects for the win!
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12 month ago
deusx : Recipe Sharing Protocol Specification - "The Recipe Sharing Protocol (RSP) is a standard for sharing and publishing recipe information over a network." Seems to be crying out for AtomPub.
joshua : Recipe Sharing Protocol Specification - looks like they're reinventing http ... over http? seems like the RSPML is the hard part anyway, which does not appear to be documented.
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13 month ago
deusx : EVE Online | EVE API Documentation - "The EVE API is a platform created to allow third party tools (programs, web sites, etc) to access character and corporation data for the purpose of enhancing the EVE experience."
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13 month ago
deusx : Pownce: Pownce documents self-promotion API - "You know what an application programming interface really is? An admission that you're too poor, cheap, or uncreative to build all the features your website needs." True, except that anyone who doesn't admit this is lying.
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deusx : Yahoo! Plans Return to its Portal Roots - "As we wrote in July, the platform is the killer app of today's web and Yahoo! needs to get on board."
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14 month ago
deusx : Implementor's Draft: OAuth Core 1.0 Draft 4 - "OAuth aims to unify the experience and implementation of delegated web service authentication into a single, community-driven protocol."
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16 month ago
43folders : Google Documents API Released - I wonder what kind of Quicksilver plug-in you could cook up with this.
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19 month ago
wearehugh : O'Reilly Radar > Six Basic Truths of Free APIs
jimray : Six basic truths about free APIs - "Free APIs are not a god-given right"
deusx : O'Reilly Radar > Six Basic Truths of Free APIs - "Amazon and Google have recently shattered a common misconception: that free APIs are a commons of goodies to be built on top of for fun and profit, like open source software."
factoryjoe : O'Reilly Radar > Six Basic Truths of Free APIs - Nat debunks 6 myths of Free APIs. Tags: apis, business models, open apis
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20 month ago
jimray : Digg releases their official API - "Determine whether a story, identified by its URL, has been submitted to Digg and, if so, get details like the number of Diggs and comments it has received" - pretty awesome
deusx : Digg API - "The Digg Application Programming Interface (API) has been created to let users and partners interact programmatically with Digg."
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20 month ago
jimray : Yahoo Mail has an API - Funny, I thought this was called "IMAP" - cool, though, if you're a Yahoo Mail Plus user
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20 month ago
jimray : Twitter Development site - Official API page, other goodies
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21 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : the reason to build APIs for your product
deusx : A quote from Dick Costolo - "The best reason to always build out APIs for your product is that it makes it easier for the rest of the world to extend your product or service rather than start competitors."
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21 month ago
43folders : Ask the Wizard: Creating Competitors - "[an open API]...makes it easier for the rest of the world to extend your product or service rather than start competitors." [via:torrez]
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22 month ago
jimray : CNET launches API - REST-based with both XML and JSON support and there's even a "dashboard" to let people easily create their own queries.
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23 month ago
Andy Baio : Flickr quietly launches machine tag support - the possibilities here are kinda mind-bending
kellan : Machine Tags: They live! They live! - Machine Tags: They live! They live!. Machine tags are not RDF. But they could play RDF on television. #
Simon Willison : Flickr Machine Tags - Flickr Machine Tags. A new feature for API developers that lets them stuff arbritrary namespaced key/value pairs in to tags and query them using the API. Even without range queries, this will enable a ton of exciting new third party developments.
plasticbag : Flickr's introduced the concept of machine tags for everyone to start playing with - Ooh. Classy. Nice. All kinds of things can be built off the back of this. I'm just starting to get my head around the possibilities, although it's probably worth noting that I'm not necessarily sufficiently qualified to get the best view...
joshua : flickr rolls out "machine tags" - like system:has: in delicious i guess
jimray : Machine tags on Flickr - Add more metadata to your photos via tags. All backend/API jiggerypockery for now, but this will be cool.
Nelson Minar : Structured Flickr tags - Machine tags are triples: namespace, keyword, value
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24 month ago
Matthew M. Boedicker : Google retreats back to Web 1.0 - began when they started crufting up everything with Javascript (via programming.reddit.com) [via]
deusx : Google retreats back to Web 1.0 | Software as services | ZDNet.com - "Put bluntly, it confirms Google's abject failure to monetize its API except by the indirect mechanism of contextual advertising."
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24 month ago
jcgregorio : GoogleSearchAPI (SOAP) Discontinued
deusx : Nelson's Weblog: tech / googleSearchAPI - "I just learned that two weeks ago Google officially put the SOAP search API on end of life status."
Jeremy Zawodny : Goodbye, Google SOAP search API - Goodbye, Google SOAP search API: "Man, you leave a company and no one remembers to tell you things."
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29 month ago
jimray : Go forth and API - How to use API's on the client side, including working around XSS issues
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