LyricWiki API: Get Song Lyrics via Code

Kevin Farnham, March 31st, 2008

LyricWiki.org is a terrific, free archive of song lyrics. How large? At the moment it has over 669,000 content pages.


Mashups in Learning-Focused Organizations

Raymond Yee, March 28th, 2008

Horizon Report thumbnailThe New Media Consortium (NMC), “an international not-for-profit consortium of nearly 250 learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies,” highlighted data mashups as an important emerging technology in its 2008 Horizon Report.


Amazon Enhances EC2, Embraces Failure

John Musser, March 27th, 2008

Amazon’s web services team has just announced two enhancements to their successful EC2 cloud computing service that makes it even more desirable and useful by making it more fault-tolerant: the ability to place instances in multiple locations and “Elastic IP addresses”.


Microsoft Partners with Social Networks on Data Portability

John Musser, March 27th, 2008

This week Microsoft announced a partnership with five of largest social networks to allow users to export their contacts from Windows Live directly into those services.


FriendFeed Launches API

John Musser, March 26th, 2008

FriendFeed, the very popular activity stream aggregation service have just announced their API.


Google, Yahoo, MySpace Form OpenSocial Foundation

John Musser, March 25th, 2008

In another big move for the OpenSocial inititive, Google, Yahoo and MySpace announced today the formation of OpenSocial Foundation.


Imeem Opens Music-centric Social API

John Musser, March 25th, 2008

Imeem, the third largest social network in the US, has just opened their “imeem Media Platform” for third party developers.


TiVo to Become a YouTube Mashup

John Musser, March 24th, 2008

Pick up the remote, turn on the television — and watch YouTube. That’s what the New York Times is reporting in one of the more interesting side notes as part of the big YouTube API release earlier this month.


Google Releases Language Translation API

John Musser, March 20th, 2008
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As of today, the powerful Google Translate service that lets you translate between 13 different languages and 29 language pairs is now available as a handy JavaScript-based API.


Amazon Launches Fulfillment Web Service

John Musser, March 20th, 2008

Today the Amazon Web Services team announced their new Amazon Fulfillment Web Service (Amazon FWS).


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