Tag Archives: web services

Web services business models

I liked Webjillion’s Will Your New, Favorite Web Application Last?, straight to the point. Web services is all about building value on top of services you do not (usually) own or control. Does this make sense? Is there a (development/business) … read more →

Rip-Mix-Burn for Feeds?

I have been quite enthusiastic about FeedBurner since the very first time I used it. I even did some coding using the various feedburner APIs and tried to integrate it with my appcliactions. Then it struck me: we are in … read more →

FeedBurner Mgmt API in PHP

I’ve been messing around with the FeedBurner Management API. It will let you list, create, modify and delete your “burned” feeds. It’s nice and simple and I have a couple of cool things in mind that would take advantage of … read more →

Upcoming.org Team Joins Yahoo!

Upcoming.org Team Joins Yahoo. Considering the rummors about Google Calendar (Google Calendar URL Is Live) this could be indicating that “web based calendar” could be the next major web app….

Google, Yahoo!, A9 Maps

“Mapping news” everywhere! – Google releasing Google Earth and Google Maps API – Yahoo! Maps API is released. – …and so does A9 Maps… Wow! RSS feeds and APIs everywhere! Suddenly, in just a month or so, us developers have … read more →

del.icio.us + filetypes

Niall Kennedy notes that del.icio.us del.icio.us now allows users to browse tags by media types. I guess this makes sense now that podcasting is so hot. It looks like a lot of people distribute “rich media” using RSS. Nice.

Interesting reading on folksonomy

David L. Sifry mentioned this very interesting article at the Technorati Developers mailin list. Worth reading!

Blogpulse results as RSS

OK, I asked for it (probably others too!) and it’s done! Blogpulse allows you to get the results of any query as an RSS feed! This is sooooo cool! This feature is much like Technorati’s watchlists, however you do not … read more →

Feedburner tracking and Technorati

Here is my problem. I set up monitor.vrypan.net using lilina. It is actually an aggregation of many Greek blogs. What I want to do is to provide a “common place” for greek blogs to interact with each other. So this … read more →

Google Code

code.google.com: Welcome to Google Code, Google’s place for Open Source software. Read the FAQ for more information. Nice!