Comments on: Public APIs – Arghh

By: benningblog » Grizzly Man

benningblog » Grizzly Man — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:22:31 +0000

[...] Service dependency on the new web, Published October 27 Public APIs – Arghh, Published January 11th on Forest and the Trees Web 2.0 and the Drive-by upgrade, Published October 24 on Oâ€™Reilly Weblogs [...]

By: Forest and the Trees » I â™¥ Public APIs

Forest and the Trees » I â™¥ Public APIs — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:40:40 +0000

[...] Last week they drove me crazy, but, the benefits of public APIs vastly outweigh the disadvantages. Richard MacManus has a good summary here of why public APIs, and the trends they are driving (Web 2.0), are so interesting: mash-ups, web as platform, the importance of letting go of your data, etc.. It’s all great stuff – and any one of those reasons should be enough to stop you from giving up on flickr. But the trend Iâ€™m most interested in is front-end innovation and data visualization. Nothing is enabling the development of interesting interfaces more than the availability of public data. The initial front-end innovations were the emergence of Ajax and mash-ups. But now Flash is playing a bigger role. And while mash-ups still get most of the press, and certainly housingmaps will forever be the Web 2.0 poster child (deservedly so), you don’t need to mash to innovate. [...]

By: WeBreakStuff » Web applications: APIs, use but be ready

WeBreakStuff » Web applications: APIs, use but be ready — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:10:36 +0000

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:36:51 +0000

Flickr is fast again. More than anything, this was just bad timing.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:52:23 +0000

Also – flickr fine print (basically “stop whining”) –
Flickr services are experimental and are currently offered to outside developers on an ad hoc basis with no guarantee of uptime or availability of continued service. We reserve the right to disable access to external applications at any time.