Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
Yahoo PIpes was ahead of its time. Here’s a nostalgic retrospective by Glenn Fleishman.
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Tom’s videos are so good! Did you see his excellent in-depth piece on copyright?
This one is all about APIs and the golden age of Web 2.0 when we were free to create mashups.
It pairs nicely with a piece by another Tom from a couple of years back on the joy of Twitterbots.
Linked Data at the Guardian | Open Platform | guardian.co.uk
A great write-up of the latest additions to the Guardian's Open Platform API including a lukewarm assessment of Semantic Web technologies like RDF.
Everything Is a Remix
It's well worth paying attention to this site, the accompaniment to the four-part series of videos entitled "Everything is a Remix."
Amazon® AWS HMAC signed request using PHP
Since Amazon decided to require signed requests for its API, I'm going to have to use this code to keep Huffduffer and The Session working. Grrrr... cool APIs don't change.
Flickr Services: Flickr API: flickr.places.placesForUser
This new Flickr API method makes it really easy to get a list of visited places for a Flickr user.
Show Us a Better Way
Tell the UK government what you'd build with public information and they could help fund your idea. Time to put your hacking hat on.
Scripting Enabled
Christian is using the prize money he won at Mashed to put on an event in London in September devoted to "ethical hacking": creating mashups to make social networks more accessible.
Build Last.fm: Extend your Last.fm experience
Last.fm have gathered together the best apps built on their API and put them all in one handy browsable spot.
Dopplr Blog » Announcing the first release of Dopplr’s API
Dopplr can has API.
YUI’s Matt Sweeney and Hands-on YUI Workshops at Yahoo! Developer Day/Hack Day September 29-30 in Sunnyvale » Yahoo! User Interface Blog
Yahoo is opening up Hack Day to the masses. If you're anywhere near Sunnyvale on September 29th, this should be fun.
From Web page to Web platform
CNET's News.com explains why web services are so cool.