Archive for posts tagged with 'APIs'

Last.fm Web Services

Posted on 02/07/2008. Estimated read time: 3 minutes (369 words)

Last weekend, the good folk at Last.fm revealed version 2.0 of their public API: The new API introduces a user authentication protocol which for the first time allows applications to create user sessions, bringing both read and write services to web apps, desktop apps and mobile devices. Take our new tagging API’s. Developers can both pull and apply tags to music content from any application on any platform now. The same goes for sharing –…

Tags: .NET, APIs, C#, Flickr, Last.fm, open source
Free the Postcode!

Posted on 15/12/2007. Estimated read time: under a minute (3 words)

Free the Postcode!

Tags: APIs, maps, open source, web
Greasemonkey Userscripts

Posted on 12/06/2007. Estimated read time: under a minute (25 words)

I made a couple of Greasemonkey userscripts this afternoon… both related to Flickr’s machine-tags, one for IMDb and the other for Last.fm.

Tags: APIs, code, Flickr, greasemonkey, hacks, IMDb, Last.fm, open source, webdev
Yahoo’s Pipes

Posted on 08/02/2007. Estimated read time: under a minute (30 words)

I’m reading a lot about Yahoo’s Pipes this morning… I had a quick play around with it, looks like a really easy way to mash-up data/web-services!

Tags: APIs, geek, webdev, XML, Yahoo