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Opening The Web
My first ever talk at Tomorrow's Web in 2009, on API design
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Transcript
Opening the Web Jamie Rumbelow Tomorrow’s Web 8th August, 2009
London Photo: Flickr (jamelah)
Me! @jamierumbelow Jamie Rumbelow http://jamierumbelow.net
• AWESOME Web Dev Screencasts • PHP, JavaScript, iPhone etc.
• High-quality + Cheap! • http://binarycake.com
What was the web? Why should it be open? What’s
an API? How can I get one? And if something goes wrong? Awesome!
In the Beginning...
Documents Photo: Flickr (corgettelawn)
HTML - Document Structure Photo: Flickr (ninavizz)
Media Photo: Flickr (john_a_ward)
Music Photo: Flickr (lynchaos)
None
Interaction Photo: Flickr (wlodi)
Web 2.0 Photo: Flickr (c__)
Openness
Open Source
Free, Free, Free
APIs Photo: Flickr (foreverdigital)
Why open?
Photo: Flickr (cncphotos)
Photo: Flickr (mackz) Open Expanse of Data
What’s good about open? Photo: Flickr (devillibrarian)
Photo: Flickr (jurvetson) Your content is going places
Photo: Flickr (Radioher) Relax, it’s done for you
Err... API?
Photo: Flickr (Mikecpeck) Taking lots of data and doing stuff
Twitter
Giving your data away Photo: Flickr (Patrick Haney)
Raw Data
The Techy Bit
RSS - Frequently updating info feeds
REpresentational State Transfer (REST) Photo: Flickr (nadya) HTTP-based actions
XML-RPC Photo: Flickr (willpate)
YQL Photo: Flickr (nokiapixel)
YQL = The Hot Shiz
SELECT * FROM xml WHERE url='http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml? id=jamierumbelow'
SELECT * FROM twitter.user.timeline WHERE id='jamierumbelow'
Woah, Problemo
Security Photo: Flickr (lwr)
Session-based Authentication Photo: Flickr (fallsroad)
Photo: Flickr (factoryjoe)
Photo: Flickr (alan-dean) HTTP-based Authentication
Photo: Flickr (mburpee) Custom
SSL
Lack of SSL Pain Not good!
What if I don’t want to? Photo: Flickr (slushpup)
Embedded Application Platforms Photo: Flickr (Barnaby)
Cool!
What was the web? Why should it be open? What’s
an API? How can I get one? And if something goes wrong? Awesome!
API = AWESOME (like the T-shirt) Photo: Flickr (codepo8)
Don’t hurt my soul...
Kthxbye Jamie Rumbelow @jamierumbelow http://jamierumbelow.net http://binarycake.com ‘imetjamie’ - 10 credits