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From XPUB & Lens-Based wiki

Joint meeting with the Constant Thematic Project / Nicolas.

Talking API's...

Afternoon

Split into groups, select an API and prepare a short presentation of how working with them.

Selena, Chris

Facebook "throw cats at your friends"

Tamar

Flickr API, kinds of data you might get access to:

  • Comments
  • User Interactions (around an image)
  • User information

(maybe not able to do more than hour)

Farah

  • Wordpress / Blogspot:
    • Ability to access information of kinds of people
    • Technorati?

Resources

Some examples:

Yahoo offers a number of services and related API's including Flickr, Search,

Google's response to "social networking"