NotesWhen Pipes first appeared, it seemed as if the geeks were interested in building tools that increased opportunities to engage in programming the web, using the web.
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Notes"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 todayâs release they really did an excellent job."FeedUnfurl
Notes"And then thereâs this kind of mashup. Take a Last.fm user or artist name, plug it in and your personalized stream of YouTube videos appears."Unfurl
Notes"Included in the API are the usual goodies already found in the reader roll, plus other stuff like tags, discussion, and outside communities."Unfurl
Notes"The EVE API is a platform created to allow third party tools (programs, web sites, etc) to access character and corporation data for the purpose of enhancing the EVE experience."Unfurl
Notes"You know what an application programming interface really is? An admission that you're too poor, cheap, or uncreative to build all the features your website needs." True, except that anyone who doesn't admit this is lying.Unfurl
Notes"Taking this information it is pretty easy to build a viewer that allows people to click through all your presentations without having to leave your site."Unfurl
Notes"OCLC ran their software contest for the second year ... And Talis gathered an international team of judges to invite anyone, anywhere, to use anything in order to demonstrate an interesting new take on the library's online presence."Unfurl
Notes"What if you could say, "by default, trust whatever my buddy Pete trusts"? Or, "trust the consensus of my set of friends; only ask me if there's disagreement"? Or more prosaically, "trust what my local IT department says"."Unfurl
Notes"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"Unfurl
Notes"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."Unfurl
Notes"Installing this will add Yelpâs community âstarâ ratings to the Waiters on Wheels listings (via AJAX magic), so you can choose your delivery food by Yelpâs trusted ratings. Check it out."Unfurl
Notes"GET http://api.feedburner.com/format/1.0/JSONP for JSON wrapped with the near mystical callback function of your choosing - just begging you to apply your JavaScript wizardry to it."Unfurl
Notes"The winning project, called Blogging In Motion, combined a camera, a handbag, a pedometer and the Flickr API to create a device that takes a picture after every few steps and then automatically blogs those pictures."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"I took some time to grab elements from the original 1963 Delia Derbyshire arrangement to highlight parts of the melody and tune, bring in more Tardis and ethereal noise, and generally act as a boost for the new Murray Gold arrangement."Unfurl