Posts Tagged ‘api’
APIs: I wish the life sciences would learn from social networks
I was prompted by a thread on the apparent decline of FriendFeed to look for evidence of declining participation in my networks.
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Brief notes on export from FriendFeed
During discussion of the ISMB 2008 room, Thomas asks: “Does FF really provide long-term archival?” Lars points out that it’s as permanent as anything else on the Web, Dorothea points out that FriendFeed offer no guarantees and Deepak discusses the FriendFeed API.
Question: how useful is the FriendFeed API as a tool to, for example, archive a FriendFeed room?
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Evolution of an idea
It’s great to sit back and watch ideas and software unfold.
Just over a year ago, Euan asked whether anyone was employing AJAX in graphical genome browsers. The old-style “reload on refresh” browsers (UCSC, Gbrowse, Ensembl) were starting to look a bit Web 1.0.
This sparked plenty of discussion, including a pointer to X:Map: a very nice alternative view of Ensembl data using the Google Maps API (update: and of course ajax-ification of Gbrowse).
Jump forward to today and thanks to Euan’s del.icio.us feed via FriendFeed, I discover Genome Projector, which takes the zoom-able Google Maps idea to a new level.
And that’s how social networks let you discover stuff. Brilliant.
Nature old and new
- Complete Nature archive 1869-present now online
- Euan lets slip that a Nature Network API is in the works. Can’t wait.
