In my last post I introduced LinkedIn’s REST APIs. This time, I want to briefly explore using their embeddable widgets. LinkedIn provides some simple HTML- and and JavaScript-based widgets to integrate commonly requested LinkedIn functionality into your site. These widgets include: “Company Insider” – JavaScript widget that shows a visitor to one of your web [...]
In my last post I introduced the Twitter REST APIs while sprinkling in a bit of history and providing some information on using Twitter’s Twurl console. This time I want to highlight some additional development tools to help you be productive programming against Twitter’s APIs. Let’s take a whirlwind tour through hacking Twitter with Apigee’s [...]
I’m writing an ongoing series of posts on Mobile, Social, and Local technologies, collectively “MoSoLo“. Previously I’ve covered the rise of web APIs, Facebook (history and openess, social plugins, Open Graph, and the Graph API), web API power tools for programming bliss including YQL for PayPal transactions, data markets, REST+JSON, and more. In this post [...]
Another month, another flurry of developer tips, examples, and payments news. Let’s review, shall we? I published the second part of my two part “Divining DevZone Insight from Filtered Feeds and Deep Pages” article series in February. The first article in the series delved into the sources of content and took the initial approach of [...]
I recently wrote a two part series of technical articles for X.com on “Divining DevZone Insight from Filtered Feeds and Deep Pages” (read part 1 and/or part 2 by clicking the link for one or both). These articles showed you how to use Yahoo Pipes and YQL along with some Python to pull data down [...]
In the previous article in this series we looked at Devzone developer RSS feeds from which we wanted to harvest data. We discussed our initial approach and then dove into implementing it using Yahoo Pipes and YQL. Please read that post now (click here to access it) if you haven’t already. We encountered some problems [...]
I’ve been contributing to the PayPal X Developer Network for a little over six months now, and it’s been a lot of fun. I love exploring the PayPal X Platform with you, and in particular focusing on the parts of the platform you find intriguing and most useful. Near the end of last year, I [...]
I’ve made a few New Years changes to how I’m announcing articles & blog posts and also how I’m archiving notes from my Twitter stream @billday. For articles published elsewhere and blog posts that I make offsite (for example, on the PayPal X DevZone blog), I will now be announcing them via an excerpt on [...]
In my last X.com post I looked back at 2010 and which blog and article topics you found most interesting based upon number of hits. I also drew general conclusions about the importance of mobility, third party APIs, and pay-per-view content in the coming year. Now I want to encourage you to take what you [...]
Recent @NVIDIA work: Copy editing/writing for the upcoming GPU Technology Conference http://bit.ly/9uxLb1 (How can I help you?) # Intel vlog interview of @PayPalX evangelist @ppalavilli http://bit.ly/95aKrd provides intro on X tech and monetizing apps, especially games # Essential resources for consultants http://bit.ly/dl8KEE # Ran 6.2 miles in 1 hour and 2 mins and 44 secs [...]
