TAG: api
Google OpenSocial will (hopefully) make social apps more relevant
Charline Li from Forrester offers her take.
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Google and Friends to Gang Up on Facebook
"An alliance of companies led by Google plans to roll out a common set of standards to allow developers to write programs for Google’s Orkut and other social networking Web sites."
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RSS, Feed, and Weblog Crawler APIs . . . "Why write your own spider when you can just use ours?"
Slap in the Facebook: It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up
"At this point, "friend" relationships remain unique to the social networks. The web still lacks a generalized way to convey relationships between people's identities on the internet."
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Widgets Suck, aka Surf to http://www.facebook.com/widgets/
"Please note that everyone, including curmudgeonly me, thinks that the people at FB are geniuses for building the Platform; and that FB uniformly calls third party add-ons applications  not widgets."
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16 Awesome Data Visualization Tools
"From navigating the Web in entirely new ways to seeing where in the world twitters are coming from, data visualization tools are changing the way we view content. We found the following 16 apps both visually stunning and delightfully useful."
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Pipes: Frequently Asked Questions
"Pipes is a free online service that lets you remix popular feed types and create data mashups using a visual editor. You can use Pipes to run your own web projects, or publish and share your own web services without ever having to write a line of code."
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Up next: 'YouTube' of video games?
Microsoft releases tools to encourage home creators of games for Xbox 360 console.
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Interface Culture 10 Years Later Notes
"Interface ecosystems. It's now easy to think of the world in terms as modules. Don't have to reinvent the wheel every time. You deal with this problem, I'll deal with that one. Easier to stitch together innovations."
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"s3DAV is a webDAV server which allows you to access a virtual file system using your Amazon s3 account."
"An Open Source Tagging / Folksonomy module for PHP/MySQL applications."
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"The ROOT Vaults currently exposes a very simple API for getting out the same clickstream data that users deposit. The API is a RESTful one that takes parameters in the HTTP Query String and returns XML."
Is Amazon S3 the first Tier 0 Internet Service?
"When you get down to it, Amazon S3 is simply a large, distributed hash map with an API. Unless people build applications on top of it, it’s useless. Amazon clearly expects this will happen - and what’s more they expect people will pay for it too."
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Earthtools: Time Zone and Local Time
"This service responds with the time zone and local time at the given latitude and longitude."
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EasyUtil Recommendation Service
"EasyUtil Recommendation web service provides a web API to make recommendations in the format of "people who liked this item also liked those items"." I'm not sure I completely understand that, but it sounds good . . .
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Calculate the distance of your walk (or run) using this cool Google Maps remix
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Web Services Built on Top of One Another
pc4media: "As soon as a new web service reaches a critical value, it can spawn 1000s more web services. "
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