October 1st, 2008
Netflix was pretty much the last place I was Web 2.0 style share cropping, creating value without a way to get it out. The Netflix API has been rumored for a long time, but with today’s release they really did an excellent job.
Also versioned documentation, and a quite reasonable set of branding guidelines.
The Netflix Web APIs provide the ability for you to integrate Netflix user services into your application. The APIs provide the following capabilities:
- Performing searches of movies, TV series, cast members, and directors
- Retrieving catalog titles, including details about the title such as name, box art, director, cast, etc.
- Determining the subscriber’s relationship to a specific title, e.g, in queue, saved, available on DVD, etc.
- Managing and displaying queues for users
- Providing conveniences such as auto-completion of partial search terms typed by a user.
- Displaying a user’s ratings and reviews.
- Including functional Add and Play buttons in your web application.
Congratulations to Netflix, and Mashery.
September 30th, 2008
You remember those dark days after the first bust?
You know the ones when all the MBAs left, and the people who loved the Web went on building it — building meaningful, crazy, artistic cool stuff, and the ethos of the social web was born, back before when that meant more then widget crazy/Facebook-tulip-bloom-madness. Yeah, that sure sucked.
Just thinking about it in the light of this week’s market silliness is enough to make me want to go back to SxSW again this year (where the torch was kept alight, like Ireland in the Dark Ages). And I’d sworn off it after this last year, but maybe budgets will be contracting again by then. And those projects that got started out in the darkness, say Flickr, and Upcoming and del.icio.us among others, wasn’t it all much better when the market got back involved and they got serious?
At least thats what reading Fred and Jason on “startup depression” reminded me of.
July 30th, 2007
The writing was on the wall.
Jack Dorsey: Taking the subway to Union Sq. The NYC one. (July 23rd)
(actually I missed that one, but Twitters from Jack regarding the White Stripes were a dead give away!)
Bit late, but congrats to both Twitter and WeSabe on closing funding with Union Sq. Ventures.
Like Tony said, “All my friends go with Union Sq.”. I’ve been fan (a fan of a VC!?!?) since shortly before their del.icio.us investment, and they continue to fund my favorite start ups.
We walked by their office today, but too busy to stop in and say, “Hi”.
April 12th, 2007
Expo Cal is up and running an instance of iCalico, the social conference calendaring app (fancy way of saying tries to answer the, “um, what should I go see?” question), Rabble and I wrote.
In other Web2Expo news, my talk for Ignite Sunday night got accepted. Ack! Um, so I’ll be speaking (for at least 6 minutes) Sunday night on “casual privacy”.
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