#api

As I understand, a hugely divisive internal debate occurred among Twitter employees around this time. One camp wanted to build the entire business around their realtime API. In this scenario, Twitter would have turned into something like a realtime cloud API company. The other camp looked at Google’s advertising model for inspiration, and decided that building their own version of AdWords would be the right way to go.

Add live updates to your websites and web services using REST, HTTP streaming, WebSockets, Webhooks, and XMPP

Add live updates to your websites and web services using REST, HTTP streaming, WebSockets, Webhooks, and XMPP

The fact that some rise above the despair of the product to make it work, to make it sing even, this is not because of anything Facebook has done, but a testament to the unceasing, even unhinged resilience of the human spirit. One does not develop with the Facebook Platform, but in spite of it.

Welcome to text-processing.com, where you can find natural language processing APIs and Python NLTK demos.

Welcome to text-processing.com, where you can find natural language processing APIs and Python NLTK demos.

Retrieves the relevant favicon for a URL, or returns a default icon should it not be able to find it. Works better than the Google version as it will find favicons specified by an HTML page's <link> element. Feel free to hotlink, although it would be nice if you could email me if you're going to make more than a couple of requests a second.

Retrieves the relevant favicon for a URL, or returns a default icon should it not be able to find it. Works better than the Google version as it will find favicons specified by an HTML page's element. Feel free to hotlink, although it would be nice if you could email me if you're going to make more than a couple of requests a second.

Presentation given at phpDay 2011 in Verona, Italy.

"A mini-framework for Django for creating RESTful APIs."

"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 your usage stats from the App Engine panel and predicate future usage trends. Then calculate the cost per month. Then divide the cash in the account by that and you have how long the service will run. You make this visible on all pages (at the bottom, say) that this service will run for X months, "Pay now to keep it running." You accept any amount, but you are completely clear about what the costs are. And this is all automated."

"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 . Firefox 3.6 now supports much of the W3C File API, which specifies the ability to asynchronously read the selected file into memory, and perform operations on the file data within the web application (for example, to display a thumbnail preview of an image, before it is uploaded, or to look for ID3 tags within an MP3 file, or to look for EXIF data in JPEG files, all on the client side). This is a new API, and replaces the file API that was introduced in Firefox 3."

"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 support the W3C Geolocation spec used by Flickr Nearby, I figured a good “Hello World” might be an application to get the GPS coordinates from the Pre, and then load the appropriate Flickr page for that location."

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 with about a 1/2-hour until counter reset.

"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."

"Pownce has an Application Programming Interface (API) for anyone to create fun projects with Pownce."

"Included in the API are the usual goodies already found in the reader roll, plus other stuff like tags, discussion, and outside communities."

"The Blinksale Application Programming Interface is simply another way to access your Blinksale data—one that makes it easy for third-party and custom tools to programatically access and interact with the service. The API follows the REST style, and this guide should provide everything you need to implement software that works with Blinksale."

"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."

"With the AJAX Feed API, you can download any public Atom or RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can easily mash up feeds with your content and other APIs"

"The Digg Application Programming Interface (API) has been created to let users and partners interact programmatically with Digg."

"Google has announced a new Ajax Feed API makes it possible to extract information from multiple RSS feeds with only a few simple lines of JavaScript"

"Is there a Ficlets API? A Ficlets web service? No. Yet, the very construction of the pages creates an API, that can be queried and read, "scraped" if you will... But scraped with a difference."

"Twitter exposes some of its functionality via an Application Programming Interface (API). This document is a reference for that functionality, and aims to serve as a reference for developers building tools that talk to Twitter."

"FQL is a way to query the same Facebook data you can access through the other API functions, but with a SQL-style interface."

"the API mirrors Stikkit's structure and functionality. We've also decided to base the API solely on REST,"

"Don’t use GET requests to update state"

"The Upcoming.org REST API has a method by which third party applications can access actual user data by getting automatic authorization from the user to do so, without having to collect a username and password in plaintext"

"Off the top of my head, here are my top three technical reasons for Microsoft to ignore the calls to clone the Google Search APIs"

"...this composite application is a distributed state machine. Small Pieces Loosely Joined, and all that."