Matt demanded accent-aware spell checking for the WordPress spell checking plugin his company acquired earlier this year. And just a little more than a month later, After the Deadline delivered. Now Beyoncé, café, coöperate, and even my resumé look prettier.
Separately, Wordnik offers a new take on online dictionaries, and they just launched an API.
Posted November 12, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: After the Deadline, api, dictionary, online dictionaries, Spell checker, spell checking, spelling, Wordnik, wordpress. Be the first one.
Will Norris has discovered that iTunes 9’s interactions with the Store are more web-happy. I’ve been asking where the iTunes Store API was for some time, now I think I’ve got what I need to build one.
Posted September 16, 2009 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: api, itunes, itunes music store api, iTunes Store, iTunes Store API. 3 Comments.
This plugin is the next step after my proposal for a common invite API. Here’s how I described it when requesting hosting at the plugin directory:
A common framework for registering tickets that will be acted upon later. Use it to manage challenge/response interactions to confirm email addresses, phone numbers, IM screen names, Twitter accounts, etc. [...]
Posted April 30, 2009 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: api, plugin, ticket, ticketing, wordpress. One Comment.
The BuddyPress forums have a number of threads about handling invitations (two worth looking at: one, two), but no real solution has emerged. At the same time, there’s also a need for some means of confirming other actions such as password resets, email changes (both of those are already handled by WPMU, I know), cell [...]
Posted April 17, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: api, BuddyPress, challenge response, framework, invitation, wordpress, WordPress MU. 2 Comments.
I’ve wanted a Wikipedia API for a while. Now I might’ve stumbled into one: commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php. It doesn’t do exactly what I want, but it might yet be useful.
Posted October 30, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: api, web services, wikipedia. One Comment.
hmm-citation-extractor, ParsCit and FreeCite (not to be confused with FreeCite, the F/OSS EndNote-like app). FreeCite is available as a service and a download.
Still, wouldn’t a simple URL be easier than all these unstructured citation formats?
Posted September 15, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: api, citation, citation extractor, citations, code, FreeCite, libraries, ParsCit, text analysis, unstructured documents. Be the first one.
Answers.com is throwing a bone to WordPress users with their new AnswerLinks plugin written by Alex King.
But wait, there’s an Answers.com API? A few pokes at the Google machine reveal nothing relevant, and Asnwers.com’s site is mum too. Taking apart the code, I get the following (modded enough to make it run-able if you drop [...]
Posted October 29, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: AnswerLinks, Answers.com, api, hacking, mashable, remixable. 2 Comments.
I’ve been talking a lot about remixability lately, but Nat Torkington just pointed out that the web services and APIs from commercial organizations aren’t as infrastructural as we might think.
Offering the example of Amazon suing Alexaholic (for remixing Alexa’s data), he tells us that APIs are not “a commons of goodies to be built on [...]
Posted April 30, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: api, apis, free, free beer, free speech, mashups, public good, remixability, self interest. Be the first one.
It’s been more than a year since I first demonstrated Scriblio (was WPopac) at ALA Midwinter in San Antonio. More than a year since NCSU debuted their Endeca-based OPAC. And by now most every major library vendor has announced a product that promises to finally deliver some real improvements to our systems.
My over-simplified list said [...]
Posted April 17, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: api, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library systems. l2, mashups, remixability, soa. 11 Comments.
ProgrammableWeb pointed out an InformationWeek story that claimed 28% of Amazon’s sales in early 2005 were attributable to Amazon affiliates. And C|net claims Amazon now has 180,000 AWS developers (up from the 140,000 Amazon was claiming about a year ago).
(Note: not every Amazon affiliate/associate is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) developer, but Amazon hasn’t [...]
Posted March 29, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: amazon api, amazon web services, Amazon.com, api, AWS, developers, earnings, mashups. One Comment.