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GeoAPI now a service by Twitter
As you’ve probably read Twitter has acquired Mixer Labs who runs GeoAPI, an API for all things location, and plans to integrate that API and its team directly into Twitter’s offerings.
Brady Forrest for O’Reilly Radar on the possible implications of this acquisition:
“Second, does this herald Twitter’s moves into being a location provider? At Sarver’s previous [...]
Tumblr’s Twitter API
Hot on the heels of Wordpress’ Twitter API Tumblr has announced their own Twitter-like API for reading and writing to Tumblogs.
I love that they came right out and said that they were inspired by Wordpress’ move.
Wordpress’ Twitter API
Wordpress.com, to be specific, now has an API that mirrors the Twitter API. This effectively allows any Twitter client, such as Tweetie or Hahlo, to read and write to Wordpress.com powered blogs only by changing their API endpoint.
Hopefully this feature will be available via a plugin sometime in the near future?
/via Tony Schneider.
A few tips to good API design
Good API design is essential to an API being used. The design of an API can be extremely daunting when you are just starting out with a new service so here are a few tips that can help you along the way to build a good, usable API.
Use your own API. The very best way [...]
WPAPI.org – A stats API for Wordpress.org hosted plugins and themes
WPAPI.org, the brain-child of Dean Robinson (who has been mentioned a few times here on First Initial, Last Name), is an easy to use stats API for plugins and themes hosted on Wordpress.org. Simple idea, perfectly executed.
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Setting thumbnails on Viddler
A feature that has been sorely needed on Viddler since day one has now finally made it out of cold storage and onto the main site. Using an image that you upload, rather than using a still frame from within the video, as the video’s default thumbnail (or, the frame you see before you hit [...]
Posted in Links Also tagged eat weird, thumbnail, tutorial, viddler, viddler api, video Leave a comment
How to: Use the Viddler API with CodeIgniter
Me, on The Viddler Developers Blog:
“The Viddler team is using CodeIgniter more and more for our internal PHP projects. Obviously we need to use CodeIgniter with the Viddler API quite a bit so we figured we’d share with you how easy it is to include PHPViddler, the open source PHP API wrapper class for the [...]
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A PHP Wrapper for Freewheel.tv’s API
Jeff Johns, fellow Viddler team member and jogger (although he’s much more accomplished than I in that area), recently wrote and released an open source PHP wrapper for Freewheel’s API. Much needed by the Viddler team, open for the world.
Posted in Links Also tagged development, jeff johns, open-source, php, programming, viddler 3 Comments
Add a progress bar to your Viddler uploads
We get this question a lot at Viddler: How can I add a progress bar to my uploads using the Viddler API? We’re always asked if this is something included in our API wrappers. Until now, it hasn’t been. That’s where phpViddlerUploadify comes in. This extension to phpViddler, our PHP wrapper for our API, makes [...]
Posted in Links Also tagged development, javascript, jquery, open-source, php, phpviddler, programming, progress, swfobject, uploadify, uploading, viddler, video Leave a comment
Help Twitter! Use “server friendly” tools.
A list of applications that, if set properly, can help Twitter with their scaling problem rather than pummel their servers with requests.
Posted in Notes Also tagged applications, development, help twitter, mw latest tweet, plugins, twhirl, twitter, twitterrific, wordpress 2 Comments
Help me build the Viddler Lab
I could use some suggestions on how to build out the Viddler Lab.
Getting geeky on the OtakuGeneration.net podcast
Me loves me some geeking out.
Posted in Notes Also tagged alan chaess, audio, geek, interview, otakugeneration, podcast, programming, viddler Leave a comment
PownceFS by Richard Crowley
Richard Crowley, whom you may know as the Flickr guy behind the Flickr Uploader or perhaps from my Avalonstar miniPrix Kart racing video when I was in California last year for Wordcamp, has created a neat Fuse filesystem for Pownce. Essentially what this does is creates a “drive” on your computer that holds each [...]
Publicly testing Viddler’s video commenting plugin for Wordpress
We're either hours or days away from releasing the video commenting plugin powered by Viddler. If you'd like to test it out, contact me, or give it a try here on my site.
Posted in Notes Also tagged development, plugin, testing, viddler, video-comments, wordpress 51 Comments
Why I’m excited about Google Gears
There has been a lot of chatter about Google Gears over the last few days and I wanted to chime in about why I'm excited about it.
Posted in Notes Also tagged gears, geotag, google, google-gears, google-maps, google-reader, iphoto, programming, software, web-2.0, web-applications 5 Comments
Beware: Twitter updated their API a bit
Twitter has updated their API and removed a few values from their JSON output but hasn't said anything about it yet, so I thought I would.
A long overdue revamp of my site
My site has been long overdue for a refresh, so I decided to get something "open" and modify it for me.
Posted in Notes Also tagged bdp-rss-aggregator, cdevroe.com, chancecube, cutline, feedburner, flickr, flickrrss, gravatar, happypals, justin-blanton, mike-stickel, plugins, recent-comments, redesign, shaun-inman, simple-countdown, slugger, smart-archives, steve-smith, theme, theubergeeks, ultimate-tag-warrior, viddler, wordpress 10 Comments
Updates to the Tumblr API