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- I can has API? A love story Cal Henderson
- flickr.com /services /api
- The end! Any questions?
- Cal Henderson Oh hai
- (This one is me) Cal Henderson
- Flickr!
- Ludicorp
- Vancouver Canada
- Vancouver (Not part of America) Canada
- London England
- Game Never Ending
- Game Never Ending (Now Ended)
- Virtual online world thingy
- In stunning 2D!
- Carry things!
- A micro economy
- Where do I fit in?
- No APIs
- HTTP Sniffable Discoverable
- gnespy.com Also GNExus, etc
- Flickr?
- Games take money
- GNE was slow Nodeservice Not modular – argh!
- Make some money Fast!
- Then we can get back to the game Lies!
- Flickr!
- APIs
- APIs Army of Robots
- Application Programming Interface
- Feeds vs APIs
- Feeds architecture Flickr Brain Templating RDF Atom RSS
- RSS Feeds architecture Flickr Brain Templating RDF Atom CSV SQL CDF PHP YAML JSON
- flickr.com /services /feeds
- Why bother providing feeds?
- Simple Just like web pages
- Not just for nerds?
- Not just for nerds?
- (Well, sort of)
- Cheaper than ‘ push’
- Less push these days
- Besides games
- Comet Flash Java Sockets
- Push Less bandwidth Less computing
- Push Immediate Fast
- Push Producer must know about consumers
- Pull Bandwidth & Processing (cache stuff)
- Pull Asynchronous Slow
- Pull Allows for adhoc consumers
- API architecture Flickr Brain Request Response
- Von Neuman? Process Input Output
- flickr.com /services /api
- Open? Or public?
- API Explorer (Built for us)
- Authentication The problem
- Authentication The revenge!
- Don’t share passwords!
- Tokens, Frobs & Mini-Frobs
- Advantages?
- Push identity to flickr
- Operate on private data
- Write!
- Why have an API?
- Unit testing
- Empower Developers (Army of monkeys)
- All the cool kids..
- Flickr as Platform
- Mutually Beneficial
- Doesn’t come for free
- Bandwidth Processing Storage
- Abuse (Stupidity)
- Support
- API Kits PHP Perl ActionScript
- API Kits PHP Perl ActionScript ColdFusion LISP cUrl Delphi Java .NET Python BASIC Ruby
- What’s special about flixor?
- Public by default
- Creative Commons
- Improve?
- More methods? ~100 public
- More formats? Feeds Requests Responses
- Push?
- The future..?
- Flickr on Flickr
- Rich Integration
- The end!
- Questions?
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