Data + APIs = Sexy

February 22 Comments Off Category: Musings

Two things I find sexy: data, and APIs to get at that data.

Barack and Britney Tweeting in a Tree

January 06 0 Comments Category: Musings

Hackers use Twitter’s internal admin tools to hijack accounts and post all sorts of nasties.

The NPR API the Sort of Lets You Do Some Things

July 17 0 Comments Category: Musings

NPR announces that it’s making a public API available to access “over 250,000 stories that are grouped into more than 5,000 different aggregations” dating back to 1995. All good stuff, we think. The devil’s in the details though. A quick read through the terms of service lets it be known that the API’s for personal [...]