New York Times API Links: http://developer.nytimes.com/ http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_first_new_york_times_api_i.php http://www.programmableweb.com/api/new-york-times-movie-reviews http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/announcing-the-new-york-times-campaign-finance-api Key Points: Current State: Most news sites have RSS feeds, thatch about as 'social' and 'open' as they get NY Times first newspaper to have an API US Election Campaign Finance API, and Movie Review API's Types: RESTfull API's (Eg http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/movie_reviews_api/) Formats: JSON, XML and Searlized PHP API Key Required (similar to most Restfull API's) Good Documentation & Samples No apps yet, but good sample ones - Eg Movie review site http://developer.nytimes.com/app_movies What this means? Will everyone follow? News 'in the cloud' API's and the 'Cloud' So I want to take a step back and define an API - 36 Signals had a good post asking people to post in 10 words on less what definition of an API means: http://www.37signals.com/svn/archives2/an_exercise_in_clarity_api.php "This is what I’ve got, Use it if you want" "A way to get others to do your work." Orgainisations moving way from Doing their service + Promoting it, (Eg News site - report on the news, and have to communicate it over the 'pipe') VS Doing their service, opening up an API and letting it loose in the cloud for individuals other organisations to do something with it...whats their core business? open that up an an API  - and leave it at that Twitter - Core developers just focus on one thing - tonns of apps that use it and extend it Got lots of bad puplicity - reliability / outages Recently announced they are stopping SMS notifications What people said about this http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/992-hail-to-the-twitter Focus on one thing - and they are still killing it FriendFeed - Just focus on one thing and do it well - aggregating content Australian Example - Remember the Milk - To-Do List editor Google - Search What else will open up into the Cloud? Telcos  - will they just provide a Pipe? Banks - 2.0 banking? Eric Schme's definition of the Cloud Swapping a HDD in your Macbook Pro, 17" Links: http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac/ Key Points: Really, really easy to do Takes ~40 minutes, since you'll probably be extra careful Talk about the size of these SATA drives these days Need 9.5 inch for 15", preferable for the 17 inch ifixit guide is awesome Setting line numbers in vi :set number :set nonumber  :<line_num> eg: :10 jumps to line 10 Segment: John's Site of The Week URL Link: http://twitrratr.com/ Key Points: Potentially a VERY VERY powerful and useful tool Needs improved AI - a lot of negatives flagged as neutral Funny to put in your own company!!

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