… and Twitter jumps the shark

Over the past few weeks it seems that Twitter has been moving to drastically redefine what the service is about. Moving to limit API connections and placing restrictions on how third parties interface with it. This has limited the usefulness of third party tools that others love and risks damaging the ecosystem that has built […]

Marcus Povey

Over the past few weeks it seems that Twitter has been moving to drastically redefine what the service is about. Moving to limit API connections and placing restrictions on how third parties interface with it. This has limited the usefulness of third party tools that others love and risks damaging the ecosystem that has built […]

Latakoo Flight API bindings for Python, PHP, Ruby and .NET

I got bored one evening, so I hacked together the beginnings of an API library for latakoo Flight. Currently it’s available in three four tasty flavours – PHP, Python, Ruby and C# .NET / Mono. The libraries are minimal but functional; they let you perform both anonymous and authenticated queries against the latakoo API endpoint, […]

Marcus Povey

I got bored one evening, so I hacked together the beginnings of an API library for latakoo Flight. Currently it’s available in three four tasty flavours – PHP, Python, Ruby and C# .NET / Mono. The libraries are minimal but functional; they let you perform both anonymous and authenticated queries against the latakoo API endpoint, […]

Idea: Lets give roads, junctions and intersections URLs

I like feeds and APIs. Feeds and APIs provide ways for others to access a service and to recombine the data in new and unexpected ways. Ways that have consistently been proven to be beneficial to both parties (which makes google’s increasing antipathy towards them an interesting, not to mention short sighted, trend). Anyway, it […]

Marcus Povey

I like feeds and APIs. Feeds and APIs provide ways for others to access a service and to recombine the data in new and unexpected ways. Ways that have consistently been proven to be beneficial to both parties (which makes google’s increasing antipathy towards them an interesting, not to mention short sighted, trend). Anyway, it […]