Terry Jones
Winners of the writable API competition
Announcing the three prize winners of the O'Reilly writable API competition.
We ran a developer contest to see what folks could do with O'Reilly's new "writable" API. Today we're announcing the winners.
A writable API competition
Got a great idea for O'Reilly's new API? Make it happen and you might win a prize.
Featured Post: We’re launching a developer contest to see what folks can do with O’Reilly’s new “writeable” API. Find out what you’ll need to get started.
A writable API for O'Reilly
Fluidinfo's new API allows anyone to add information to O'Reilly book and author objects.
Fluidinfo's new O'Reilly API contains information from O'Reilly, Amazon, Google Books, LibraryThing, and GoodReads. But most importantly, anyone can "write" their own information to the book and author objects.
A writable API for O’Reilly
Fluidinfo's new API allows anyone to add information to O'Reilly book and author objects.
Fluidinfo's new O'Reilly API contains information from O'Reilly, Amazon, Google Books, LibraryThing, and GoodReads. But most importantly, anyone can "write" their own information to the book and author objects.
The future of publishing is writable
Trends of smaller, easier, and more personal content signal a shift away from read-only publishing.
Terry Jones envisons a future in which we step beyond the default of read-only publishing via traditional containers and APIs. Data itself will become social, and we'll be able to personalize arbitrarily.
Getting closer to the Web 2.0 address book
The answer to a long-running problem lies in data, not an application.
Given that so much diverse and overlapping information about each of us is spread between applications, why are simple actions — like automatically reacting to known friend requests — still not possible? The answer, notes Terry Jones, lies not with a new application, but in a ball of data. (Part 2 of a 2-part series.)
Dancing out of time: Thoughts on asynchronous communication
Why asynchronous communication scales, and what we can do with that power.
Terry Jones examines the core differences between synchronous and asynchronous communication, and he looks at how technology has given asynchronous methods tremendous reach. (Part 1 of a 2-part series.)