api | Kris Smith has read these articles about "api" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "api" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpDeconstructing the Business Social Network- November 21, 2007 I am the wrong age for Facebook or MySpace. But I happen to have a relative who is in the LA music scene, who gave me a tour from his perspective - and now I totally get it. A few decades ago that is where I would have hung out. I am not looking for a social network. I cannot imagine choosing one single place as my only online hangout and I certainly don't want the hassle of managing my identity and my relationships on multiple sites. However I am interested in how different tools give...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/188152189/deconstructing_the_business_socia... Google CSE Goes International- November 20, 2007 Walt Whitman said that he liked to write in iambic pentameter because there is beauty in constraints. I think about that often when I use Google Custom Search Engine, which is at least once a day. Today, Google announced that its platform for searching inside a finite list of domains is now available for the first time in 40 different languages. (As UK semantic web developer Tom Morris pointed out, like all web projects CSE was always was international - it was just ignoring it.) See our...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/187790453/google_cse_goes_international.php PHP Tutorials for Advanced Searching and Seller Profiles- November 20, 2007 Two new PHP tutorials show how easy it is to use the eBay Shopping API. The first tutorial, Using Advanced Search in the eBay Shopping API, shows how to perform complex searches. PHP is used for a keyword-based FindItemsAdvanced request...Tags: php ebay api advanced tutorialshttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/typepad/ebay-developer/dev/~3/187458190/ LinkedIn and The Future of Business Networking- November 20, 2007 In the heyday of the Facebook hype (it seems so long ago now!), Facebook was going to eat LinkedIn's lunch. Based on recent experience, I don't think so. I recently had reason to use LinkedIn seriously, using my existing network to tap into a market that I had not previously been exposed to. I had not used LinkedIn since the early days, so this was my first serious update. I have NOT used Facebook seriously. I registered out of curiosity about the phenomenon and found that the only network I...http://www.croncast.com/keyg/api eBay Serves 5 Billion API Calls Each Month- November 19, 2007 The first of the Web 2.0 APIs came from eBay back in November 2000 and they've come a long way in the 7 years since then. Our eBay API Profile is one of the most frequently visited on ProgrammableWeb. As you can see in this recent post from the eBay Developer's Blog comes some interesting ...Tags: ebay api visited frequently profilehttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ProgrammableWeb/~3/186972832/ Amazon Sets eBook World Alight with Kindle - Finally, Time For ReadWrite Books!- November 19, 2007 I used to write a blog about ebooks - some of you may remember eBook Culture (alas I let the domain name slip and so it was gobbled up by a squatter). Anyway, as a lover of both books and the Web, the vision of an Internet-connected eBook Reader has been one of my obsessions over the years. And now it looks like Amazon has, finally, taken the always-nascent eBook industry to the next level. This week, wrote Steve Levy in a raptuous article in Newsweek, Amazon will release the Kindle - an...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/186959692/amazon_kindle_ebooks.php Zune 8GB Gets Stripped, Starts Hearts Racing Zune- November 18, 2007 Those great guys at Rapid Repair have done the dirty and stripped the 8GB of all its sexy clothing. There does not seem an awful lot to take note of, except Microsoft has done a good job, tightly packing in all the Zuney innards. The Rapid Repair peeps were less than thrilled at the implementation of the Zune pad, which is actually much unlike a sanitary pad, as it is effectively irreplaceable. Other than that, it seems like this a standard take down, and there does not seem to be anything...http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/186699371/zune-8gb-gets-stripped-starts-hearts-... Currency Devaluation Datapoint of the Day- November 16, 2007 Justin Fox reads research from Merrill's David Rosenberg: While the loonie plummeted against the dollar between 1992 to 2002, Rosenberg says, inflation in Canada declined from 4.5% to 1.3%, the short term interest rate set by the Bank of Canada dropped from 7% to 3%, and ten-year bond yields dropped from 8% to 5%. Related LinksMoney Market Datapoint of the DayThe Credit Duel, Part 2Subprime: The Cause Of All Market Moves Tags: canada dropped rosenberg market ...http://feeds.portfolio.com/~r/portfolio/marketmovers/~3/185830687/currency-devaluation-dat... Sparkle And Shine- November 16, 2007 Around three or four years ago, I became fairly obsessed with the works of Steve Earle. I literally couldn't go a day without spinning at least one of his albums, often more. While that obsession eventually faded to more rational levels, I've spent the last few days ratcheting up my SE quotient in anticipation of the Live At The Rehearsal Hall taping at the Bravo! studios last night. Being ultra-keen and early scored me seats in the very front row, the second time I've been within a couple...http://www.chromewaves.net/?itemid=2840 Starbucks Cools Off- November 16, 2007 Is the magic gone from Starbucks The chain has seemed to be an unstoppable juggernaut, growing rapidly as its brand and experience established its coffee as an affordable luxury that was immune from the economic cycles that can torment other retail chains. Today, Starbucks is looking like any another retailer. The company on Thursday said that the number of visitors to its stores in the United States fell for the first time in its history. Worldwide, sales at stores open at least 13 months,...http://feeds.portfolio.com/~r/portfolio/news/~3/185768047/Starbucks-Cools-Off |