Results tagged “Web Services”
Six Apart @ OSCON 2006
Looking back over 2006 one of the things that really stands out for me personally is the opportunity I had to attend OSCON. I can think of a lot of conferences that lost their edge once they surpassed some invisible...
Six Apart Podcast: Web 2.0, Widgets Live and Business Blogging Seminar
Ding, Dong! Hey, who’s at the door? It’s a podcast! Come on in. It has been a very busy week at Six Apart with tons and tons of announcements. We were at the Web 2.0 conference and Widgets Live. We...
Introducing the Open Media Profile
Today, we’re happy to introduce the Open Media Profile. Just looking for highlights? Here you go: Open Media Profile is an OpenSearch profile based on Media RSS. Vox will support Open Media Profile as well as GData API It’s pretty...
Connecting your blog to Skype
Millions of people around the world use Skype to talk to each other, and since blogs are all about helping people communicate better, we're glad to see a number of new efforts making it easier to plug into Skype right...
Technorati Turns Three
The Technorati team is celebrating the third birthday of the popular blog search service. Congratulations to the whole team, and thanks to Niall Kennedy for the reminder. Niall's blog, like Technorati's official blog, is powered by Movable Type, which means...
Macromedia Launches Labs
The team at Macromedia has just launched Macromedia Labs, where you can check out new and upcoming technologies that might be making their way into Macromedia's products in the coming months. With offerings ranging from the Flex framework to new...
eBay frees the API
In a move that's sure to delight lots of developers, eBay has announced that the eBay API is now available for free. In addition, membership in the eBay Developers Program and standard application certification for your apps which use the...
An Executive Summary of Ajax
It's been less than a year since Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path coined the term "Ajax" to describe many contemporary web development techniques, but since then the term's become so popular it's inspired its own mini-hype cycle. Fortunately, Adaptive...
Ning Playground Launches
Ning has just launched their namesake service. Though it meets all the superficial standards for Web 2.0 buzzword compliance, including tag clouds, a beta badge, and name-checks of Flickr and del.icio.us, it looks like there's some real substance to this...
Google launches Blog Search
As will undoubtedly make the rounds everywhere in the blogosphere today, Google has just launched Google Blog Search. Google's perhaps the single company most identitied with search, so their entrance into the blog search space is a big milestone even...
WSJ on Blog Search Engines
Vauhini Vara of the Wall Street Journal has published a look at all the new blog search engines that have popped up in recent years, including Technorati, Feedster, IceRocket, DayPop, BlogPulse, Bloglines, and stalwarts such as Google, MSN, and Yahoo....
Technorati launches Blog Finder
The Technorati team has launched Blog Finder, a new service for discovering the blogs around specific topics. Grouped by tags, blogs can be discovered by the service if they've followed the provided instructions on how to describe a site. The...
Mint Launches
Shaun Inman has just launched Mint, a cool new statistics application that you can install on your web server to track referrers, visitors, searches, and user agents. Mint is $30, and if you want more information, the best place to...
BlogPulse Profiles
Intelliseek's BlogPulse service has just launched BlogPulse Profiles. It's a useful utility for getting a better understanding of an individual blog's frequency of updating, impact, and trends....
Start Mapping!
Great news today for geo-enthusiast geeks: Two new APIs launched today in advance of O'Reilly's Where 2.0 conference, one for Google Maps and one for Yahoo Maps. The services are fairly similar, despite some good-natured ribbing from some of the...
Sparklines and FeedBurner Web Services
Joe Gregorio's launched a cool new web service for generating Sparklines, the information-rich little graphics that can present a lot of data in a tiny space. The service seems like a natural fit for a lot of web applications, and...
Piping Posts around the web with Atom Filter
Our own Mark Paschal has just published the newest Professional Network article, Shuffling Atom with Atom Filter. Offering an overview of Mark's CPAN module XML::Atom::Filter (which is available on our Power Tools page), the article shows how some simple tools...
blo.gs goes to Yahoo
blo.gs is one of the most popular update pinging services, having been a default service in Movable Type and TypePad for years. Today, Jim Winstead, the service's creator, has announced that blo.gs was sold to Yahoo, after announcing a change...
Technorati Beta Launches
The team at Technorati just announced the launch of their new beta site, which collects much of the features and functionality that have been available on the popular blog-tracking service and wraps them in a friendly and fun interface. In...
Rico AJAX library
Sabre's development team has just released Rico, a javascript library for creating rich applications using AJAX technologies. Available under an Apache license, a lot of common visual and data-manipulation functions are bundled into this cross-browser AJAX implementation. The offering comes...
