Alex Barnett blog : JSON

Designing Web APIs - Twitter Learnings

alexbarnett — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:08:00 GMT

Although I made it to Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week, I didn't make it to a session Matt McAlister blogged about by Twitter’s Alex Payne and Michael Migurski of Stamen Design who presented learnings from the perspective of an API provider.

But I can see the slide deck discussing the Twitter API and so can you:

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More Web 2.0 session slides available here. Recommended:

Videos of sessions here. Check out Clay Shirky's session, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (a good read btw).

I'll be at MIX07

alexbarnett — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:34:00 GMT

I'll be heading down to MIX07 tomorrow. Let me know if you want to hook up (ping me at )

There will be a torrent of Microsoft product announcements over the next few days - Sam Sethi has made a number of predictions on what some of these will be.

One of the sessions I'll be looking forward to is Pablo Castro's talk that Sam picked up on (I used to work with Pablo in Microsoft's Data Programmability team). If you are going to MIX07, DO NOT miss this:

Accessing Data Services in the Cloud
Speaker(s): Pablo Castro - Microsoft

Come learn about new Microsoft technologies that enable you to make your data available over the Web through a simple REST interface and using open formats such as plan XML, JSON or even RDF. We also discuss the underlying entity framework that makes it easy to model, publish, and program against your data over the Web.

JSON - are you ready?

alexbarnett — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:39:00 GMT

Assaf's post cracked me up this morning - JSON Assessment Questionnaire: Are you ready to make the transition?.

Here's a sample:

The problem with JSON is … (item: true)

[ ] I never used it, so I wouldn’t know.
[ ] That’s why I never use it.
[ ] No angle brackets.
[ ] Too simple.
[ ] Not in the J2EE BluePrints Solutions Catalog.