Tag Archives: api

Comparing NLP APIs for Entity Extraction

Posted on January 2, 2010 by mfagan

Update: a number have people have pointed out some small errors and some additional APIs that I should look at. See my half-hearted followup: Entity Extraction APIs, once again. As part of a project I’m working on (more on that … Continue reading →

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Why Facebook Shouldn’t Fear OpenSocial

Posted on November 3, 2007 by mfagan

Why Facebook Shouldn’t Fear OpenSocial – I’m supposed to be studying, so of course it’s a good time to do some blogging. Anyhow, I agree with Josh that the idea that the competition now being Facebook vs OpenSocial is silly. … Continue reading →

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Google Code – Updates: New GData API: Google Base

Posted on August 22, 2006 by mfagan

Google Code – Updates: New GData API: Google Base – two of my biggest hopes – Google opening up Google Base, and more wide adoption of APIs based around OpenSearch – all at once. This could be big.

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Google Data APIs Protocol

Posted on April 20, 2006 by mfagan

Google Data APIs Protocol – interesting move from Google. I (and others) have thought for a while that combining OpenSearch’s read capabilities with the Atom Publishing Protocol’s write capabilities would create a very powerful API, and that’s roughly what Google … Continue reading →

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Google Toolbar API – Guide to Making Custom Button

Posted on January 30, 2006 by mfagan

Google Toolbar API – Guide to Making Custom Button – aaaargh. I see Google’s recreated the OpenSearch Description format. Nice job guys. Oh yeah, and it also functions as an RSS feed information thingy…. which as far as I can … Continue reading →

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Why is the Google Homepage API not HTML?

Posted on December 14, 2005 by mfagan

Someone please explain to me why the Google Homepage API is a small XML format that includes an HTML bit, instead of just HTML itself? Okay, so they introduce a few bits of meta data. The links, such as screenshot … Continue reading →

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From metasearch to distributed information environments

Posted on October 11, 2005 by mfagan

From metasearch to distributed information environments (Lorcan Dempsy) is a good overview on metasearch in the academic enviroment, and search/metadata APIs. I looked at a number of the documents, including the first two PowerPoint files and the information on MXG. … Continue reading →

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Google Maps API

Posted on June 29, 2005 by mfagan

Google Maps API – finally, and thank goodness. I haven’t looked at the API yet, hopefully it still leaves a place for Mikel’s fantastic worldKit. Via Google Blog. Update later June 29: also today, the Yahoo! Maps Web Service. All … Continue reading →

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