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Using APIs With PHP? Here Are Your Classes

4 month ago

bmilleare : Using APIs With PHP? Here Are Your Classes - Handy list of PHP classes for accessing various APIs.

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SimpleText.ws — Your writing synced online

4 month ago

deusx : SimpleText.ws — Your writing synced online - "Your writing, notes, and to-do lists online. SimpleText.ws stores your text and keeps it synced between your work, home, and devices like the iPhone. Unlike manual syncing, SimpleText.ws merges your changes so you'll never lose data."

Tags : apis text simpletext writing opensource service

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A new (and different) geo platform - (BlockChalk Blog)

7 month ago

deusx : A new (and different) geo platform - (BlockChalk Blog) - "We’ve just released a brand new API for BlockChalk. It’s very easy to learn and use: requests are made via HTTP GET and POST, and data is provided in XML, JSON, and RSS formats. These new interfaces enable developers to do nearly everything th

Tags : blockchalk geo nifty webdev apis gps mobile

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geocoders

10 month ago

Simon Willison : geocoders - geocoders. A fifteen minute project extracted from something else I’m working on—an ultra simple Python API for geocoding a single string against Google, Yahoo! Placemaker, GeoNames and (thanks to Jacob) Yahoo! Geo’s web services.

philgyford : Simonw's geocoders at master - GitHub - Python "code for accessing various geocoding web services with an ultra simple API". Sounds good.

Tags : top simonwillison python apis geolocation webdevelopment google geocoder yahoo placemaker geonames multimap geocoding

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Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 1.0

10 month ago

Simon Willison : Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 1.0 - Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 1.0. Another awesome Geo dataset from the Yahoo! stable—this time it’s Flickr releasing shapefiles (geometrical shapes) for hundreds of thousands of places around the world, under the CC0 license which makes them ess

philgyford : Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 1.0 - I keep seeing cool code stuff whizz by and I'm not making anything with it. May need to ringfence time from other commitments just to *do* something.

joshua : Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 1.0

Tags : top flickr geolocation geocoding mapping yahoo apis webdevelopment maps gis

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The Little Manual of API Design (PDF)

10 month ago

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)

Tags : top via:simonwillison api apis webdevelopment

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Adium - Xtras - View Xtra: TwitterAdium

13 month ago

deusx : Adium - Xtras - View Xtra: TwitterAdium - I guess I missed a few updates on Adium Xtras. My copy was pinging every 15 seconds. "* 120 seconds between updates to be nicer to twitter"

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getluky.net » A Warning About the Real Cost of Microformats

14 month ago

deusx : getluky.net » A Warning About the Real Cost of Microformats - "Anyway, here’s the question I want to put into the reader’s mind: should one spend time and effort making a frontend into an informal API through microformats, or to instead spend it on building a fully supported API or data publishing system th

Tags : microformats webdev web20 data apis xhtml

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Weave 0.3 Prototype Server « Tapestry

17 month 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

Tags : weave mozilla labs webdev apis

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REST APIs must be hypertext-driven » Untangled

17 month ago

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

Tags : rest hypertext http apis webdev webservices rant

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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Explaining REST to Damien Katz

19 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#

Tags : rest webdev apis soap webservices dareobasanjo

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http://tinydb.org/

23 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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Introducing the Yahoo! Open Strategy (Yahoo! Developer Network blog)

23 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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Fire Eagle - Easily share your location online! Personalise lots of sites and services!

25 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 #

Tags : brickhouse etech fireeagle location locative locativetechnologies place yahoo apis geotagging gps zonetag

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chart (PNG Image, 800x250 pixels)

25 month ago

deusx : chart (PNG Image, 800x250 pixels)

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BravoNation is a new (invitation only) service from Yahoo! Brickhouse, where I work. It's the bra...

27 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!

Tags : APIs awards bravonation erniehsiung gordonluk platforms yahoo yahoobrickhouse

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Recipe Sharing Protocol Specification

28 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.

Tags : apis recipes rsps xmlrpc dev food

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EVE Online | EVE API Documentation

28 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."

Tags : apis docs eve gaming mashups

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Pownce: Pownce documents self-promotion API

29 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.

Tags : apis mashups pownce sandindiaper valleywag web20 webdev

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Yahoo! Plans Return to its Portal Roots

29 month ago

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."

Tags : apis open platforms webdev yahoo

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Implementor's Draft: OAuth Core 1.0 Draft 4

30 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."

Tags : apis mashups oauth specs webdev

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Google Documents API Released

32 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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O'Reilly Radar > Six Basic Truths of Free APIs

35 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

Tags : api rant web20 apis tumbl webdev amazon google webservices

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Digg releases their official API

35 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."

Tags : apis digg media tumbl via:magnetbox webdev webservices api

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Yahoo Mail has an API

36 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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