Jacob Kaplan-Moss: api

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Official Google Data APIs Blog: Import Scans or Go Multilingual

Holy crap - OCR via an API. I've been waiting a long time for an API like this!

MTV API Documentation Home

Goddamn: MTV has an API, and it uses Atom. This somehow boggles my mind.

oEmbed

An API for getting “embeddable” versions of content from another site. Super slick and simple, illustrating perfectly how to design an API: solve one small problem at a time.

(api, embed, standard)

AJAX Libraries API - Google Code

Load popular JavaScript libraries off Google's servers - this'll make caching and speed issues irrelevant. Still, I'm not sure exactly how I feel about 'google.load(“jquery”)' — seems brittle.

(api, caching, google, javascript, js, libraries, loading, webdev)

The Pownce Blog » Blog Archive » Announcing Pownce API v2.0

Version 2 of the Pownce API is out, and it's extremely well-designed. I hope Leah will write about the backend-details — this is the best Django-powered REST API I've seen yet.

(api, djangopowered, pownce, programming)

Kayak Search API (beta) - Kayak.com

Wow, Kayak (one of my favorite travel search sites) has an API, and a RESTful one to boot! Limited to 40 queries/hour, but still sweet.

(api, search, travel, webservices)

Matt Legend Gemmell » Blog Archive » Get rid of your code with Leopard

An overview of what's new in Leopard for developers. The killer feature of Leopard is really going to be what it lets indie developers do; I can't wait to see what Panic, Flying Meat, et al. can do with this stuff.

(api, apple, cocoa, development, leopard, programming)

Google Docs Help Center - How can I use spreadsheets to answer some of my many questions about the world?

This, truly, is a frequently asked question. I can't tell you how many times I've wished that my spreadsheet could tell me Roger Clemens' ERA. (Seriously, for a moment: this is amazingly cool.)

(api, cool, database, google, spreadsheet)

TidBITS iPod & iPhone: Apple Nearing iPhone Third-Party Developer Announcement

From any other source I'd call bullshit, but it's Glenn Fleishman and TidBITS, and seems to line up with some rumblings I've been hearing from inside the Mothership. Who knows - anything's possible…

(api, apple, development, iphone)

Brad's Thoughts on the Social Graph

Tackling social network portability. If anyone can solve this nasty problem it'll be Brad.

(api, community, graph, network, networking, openid, portability, social, software)

Code++: Mobile Gmail API

Looks like a nice basis to write an unofficial Gmail client against. The article says that POST is required, but in my playing around it seems that only GET works.

(api, gmail)