Temple of Ego and Links Oh, hello there! I didn’t see you come in. Well, as long as you’re here, let’s look at some links around the web that I’ve found to be related to what we’ve be...
What Twitter's API Announcement Could Have Said A few years ago, I wrote about the Law of Fail : Once a web community has decided to dislike a person, topic, or idea, the conversation will shift from critic...
Why Your Complaint About Twitter Is Wrong I know I usually try to be a thoughtful tech writer, but sometimes, holy shit you guys. Twitter, because of their API, actually was a real-time protocol to...
Readability And Intention The latest launch I’m ecstatic to share with you all: My friends at Readability (whom I advise) announced their amazing new platform ! Though it’s best know...
Out In The World It’s really gratifying to get to ruminate on things here on my blog and see echoes of those ideas the great work that other people do. Some recent bits of grat...
The Twitter API is Finished. Now What? Update: We’ve got some results already! Joseph Scott at Automattic mentions in the comments that he’s added RSD support for the Twitter API to WordPress.co...
Atom Wins: The Unified Cloud Database API Almost five years ago, I got involved in a project that would eventually become Atom , a pair of matching standards functioning as a syndication format and a...
Amazon Payment Services Looks like activity around Amazon’s web services is heating up. In the latest issue of their web services newsletter, the following revelation: We are al...
blogger gets hacked Post-Hack Update Blogger’s completely back up , including bStats and the API. It seems (again, I don’t work for Pyra, but I’ve had information confirmed by...
web services as OS If web services are considered the API to an Internet operating system, what would be the device drivers? What’s analogous to the layer that abstracts the phys...
blogger api I will just give you the links: PHP code to access the Google API . Incidentally, WSDL is amazing. And, in keeping with the programmer’s rule that lazin...
google as a platform A follow-up on my eariler reference to Google as a platform , a system administrator reveals in a mailing list post that Google will be offering an API :...
I am always surprised at I am always surprised at what things get huge responses… People have been emailing me like crazy about the “links in new windows” thing. Let me clarify: I’m no...
Joel on Software - Fire And Motion I read Joel’s essay Fire And Motion the day it came out about three weeks ago. I’ve re-read it almost every day since. It’s the most concise, accurate, artic...
Finally, Blogger has an XML-RPC Finally, Blogger has an XML-RPC interface . I have to confess, I had hoped to see this a year or so ago. But I’m sure there will still be some cool stuff pl...
It looks like most people It looks like most people would pay the same amount yearly for Microsoft Office as they would for Blogger . And while writing this, I’ve realized that I u...
An internet company that doesn't An internet company that doesn’t hype itself enough : Pyra. Blogger Pro is already in late alpha, perhaps beta. But there’s very little info on the Blogger s...