August 2011
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Diffbot Sees The Web Like People Do, Now Free For... →
pixelturf:
Diffbot is a geeky and incredibly interesting technology that uses bots, algorithms, computer vision and artificial intelligence to process the content on the Web the way a human being can. “The entire Internet can be broken down into 30 different page types” explains Co-founder Mike Tung, also known as “Diffbot Mike,” and “Diffbot can identify them all.” Diffbot knows the difference...
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Super Agent →
openrepos:
Super Agent is light-weight progressive ajax API crafted for flexibility, readability, and a low learning curve after being frustrated with many of the existing request APIs.
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Holy shit disqus
wtfnth:
The disqus docs are a bit confusing - the param name for the API key seems to be buried. Here are a few things I’ve discovered:
Secret key is for server side, public key is for client side
This url works: http://disqus.com/api/3.0/forums/listThreads.json?api_key=YourPublicKey&forum=YourForum
The value you want for forum is the subdomain you use to administer Disqus:...
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Swagger: A New Framework for Interactive API... →
Today, Wordnik officially announced Swagger, a specification and framework for building interactive API documentation and sandboxes. The Swagger UI allows developers and non-developers to interact with an API and see how the API responds to different commands and parameters. It’s based on the technology that powers Wordnik’s own interactive API documentation and can work with both JSON and...
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wilddirt:
Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that’s only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000).
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