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Thursday May 19, 2011
A collection of the best open data sets and open-source tools for data science, wrapped in an easy-to-use REST/JSON API with command line, Python and Javascript interfaces. Available as a self-contained VM or EC2 AMI that you can deploy yourself.
It's essentially a specialized Linux distribution, with a lot of useful data software pre-installed and exposing a simple interfaced
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Thursday April 28, 2011
I received this email a few months ago, and it made me smile.
Anthony from The Hype Machine here....
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Wednesday March 16, 2011
Foursquare trying to become a "Rosetta Stone" for location, marrying venue representations across many sites/APIs
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Thursday March 10, 2011
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Tuesday January 25, 2011
Use a Flickr API response to generate a slideshow. Clever.
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Sunday October 24, 2010
Not that they've ever been good at providing sanctioned APIs, but this seems pretty poor form.
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Sunday October 10, 2010
"A polyfill, or polyfiller, is a piece of code (or plugin) that provides the technology that you, the developer, expect the browser to provide natively. Flattening the API landscape if you will." Also termed as Regressive Enhancement. I think that sums it up nicely.
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Saturday September 25, 2010
"With #newtwitter using the API all users will become
API consumers, providing valuable feedback about issues they
encounter, helping us isolate and fix problems that are found." - I had no idea newtwitter was built directly on the API
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Friday September 17, 2010
A brief overview and library recommendation.
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Wednesday August 18, 2010
"Over the past 24 hours, we've received some questions about the
Twifficiency app, so we thought we'd use this as an opportunity to
quickly share some information around our Developer Principles."
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Monday August 16, 2010
An interesting idea, though i'm not sure how much utility there is if full error responses are listed in docs (as you can mock/test locally). Still, interesting.
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Monday July 27, 2009
"BadAPI allows you to simulate misbehaving APIs. This is useful if your site relies on the availability of service X, and you want to ensure that any downtime experienced by that service has minimal impact on your own application."
You can similar various HTTP response codes, content-types, error states and time delays.
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Tuesday July 14, 2009
Just testing the Tumblr API. I’ve been pulling content in to my personal site...
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Tuesday July 7, 2009
Sweet. There are actually still things happening with machine tags. I was beginning to wonder if the whole thing had just stagnated. Herein Flickr show off some of the innovative uses of machine tags by 3rd parties, and introduce a new web-service to fetch newly machine-tagged items, filterable by namespace and predicate.
I'd like to see the last X gig photos from last.fm added, then plotted to a map. That would be hot. And might be my project this week.
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Tuesday April 14, 2009
Currently, the API exposes a variety of data for approximately 200 countries over a time period of more than 50 years.
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Sunday March 15, 2009
The Tumblr API is missing a tag filtering parameter even though the public facing site allows it.
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Tuesday March 10, 2009
Looking at using Tumblr as a very basic CMS. It lets you tag new posts and filter by tags on the tumble log itself, but there's now way to filter via tag in the API.
Frustrating much? That's a step away from having to scrape the blood thing. The API should be the powerful bit you jerks.
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Monday July 14, 2008
David Singleton posted a photo:
Links for lfm machine tagged event photos.