YouTube just announced some major extensions to their APIs (see official blog-post), which finally enable uploading of video to their site. seems like my own hack, PHPTube, is therefor rendered obsolete, and for good… . the new API (see the developer guide) seems to allow both user-triggered authentication (similar to what Flickr has been [...]
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Attention: as of January 29th, I’ve decided to stop support for PHPTube! Due to recent changes in the YouTube uploading-process, uploading with PHPTube won’t work anymore! I recommend using the offical YouTube API, which can do uploads just fine! Since PHPTube is released under GPL, you’re of course free to adapt it!
You may want to try [...]
Google is further narrowing down the space for niche mapping-mashups like frappr and flagr (and to some extent even more complex apps based on the Maps API, like austrian newcomer Tupalo) by releasing their My Maps feature. My Maps lets anybody create geo-mashups without the need to code, including photo- & video-annotation. sharing of maps [...]
Yahoo! not only announced unlimited storage for their Yahoo! Mail service recently, but – according to GigaOM – is also going to add an API to their mail-platform soon, enabling third-party developers to build on top of probably the most popular mailing-product on the web.
TechCrunch reports on upcoming extensions to the Twitter API, which will [...]
Lee Byron rendered some amazing graphs using his Last.fm-attention data. (via Mind Your Own Business). I guess he had to record the data himself, as Last.fm’s API doesn’t seem to expose historical data?
Niall Kennedy writes about a new del.icio.us API allowing to query the top tags & number of bookmarks of any given URL. while the API hasn’t been released officially yet, Yahoo! developer network already features a screencast introducing some of its capabilities. currently, the API seems to consist of a single URL which returns data [...]
Google just released an API for their Spreadsheets product as part of the larger Google Data APIs (“GData”), which also allow 3rd parties to access Calendar, Base, Blogger and Code Search. the API supports read/write-access to existing documents, though – according to Google Blogoscoped – it’s not possible to create new spreadsheets (yet).