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Psychic Origami » Blog Archive » A Huffduffer Widget
John Montgomery has created an embeddable Huffduffer widget that you can add to your own site with one line of JavaScript. Hurrah! ...I really need to get 'round to documenting the (somewhat primitive) Huffduffer API.
YQL now supports microformats! (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
Yahoo's RESTful query language can now parse microformats. This is excellent news ...although I'm personally finding it tough to wrap my head around the documentation. It's certainly trickier than hKit but then, it's almost certainly more powerful too.
Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Detecting and displaying the information of a logged-in twitter user
Clever or creepy? You decide.
Web Security Horror Stories: The Director's Cut at
The slides from Simon's excellent full-length presentation at the head conference. Every web developer needs to be aware of these issues.
Tweetersation
The last project from Simon and Nat is essentially a way of viewing groups (slices of activity) on Twitter ...and it exposes a security flaw in the JSON-P API too.
Yahoo! Address Book API - YDN
You can know use an API (with BBAuth) to get contact Yahoo account contact details. There really is no excuse now for still using the password anti-pattern.
Digital Web Magazine - Hacking on Open APIs
The second part of Gareth's series for Digital Web on APIs. This time he's got some PHP code samples for parsing XML and JSON.
The B-List: I can't believe it's not XML!
Great explanatory article by James Bennett comparing JSON and XML.
Scripting News: 12/20/2006: God bless the re-inventers
Dave Winer doesn't get JSON.
XML and the Next Web (and the Previous...) - O'Reilly XML Blog
Simon St. Laurent writes about the victory of JSON over XML in the browser and looks forward to a future filled with XQuery.
Flickr Services
You can now get responses from the Flickr API formatted as JSON.
iTunes Search API Around the Corner? - snook.ca
Jonathon has found some circumstantial evidence of an API for searching the iTunes music store. That could be really interesting. It might be fun to mash it up with Amazon's API.
Vitamin Features » Go forth and API
Cameron has written a great article on using APIs with Ajax. I love the idea of using .htaccess to fake a proxy and get around the same-site restriction.
JSONRequest
Douglas Crockford has written a wrapper function to allow the easy interchange of JSON data between servers.