DeWitt Clinton

I just uploaded the first release of python-twitter. Python twitter is a pure python wrapper around the Twitter API and data model.
Python twitter is as complete as I could make it. I spent the better part of a full day writing it, and coded it hoping to design something that will be a [...]

I decided to add my del.icio.us bookmark stream to this feed via Feedburner.
The updates will normally happen only once a day in a batch, but the first time probably will give you a whole week’s worth of old posts, cluttering up your blog reader.
BTW, I’m up to 1108 bookmarks on del.icio.us. The past [...]

APIs are great.
Case in point, it only took me about an hour to automatically add my most recent Twitter updates to this blog. (Yes, the Twitter badges would have worked, but for performance and consistency reasons I try not to depend on third party Javascript.)
If you’re reading this in a blog reader, then you [...]

I set up a Twitter account this weekend and love it. Twitter is almost exactly what I want in a tool for micro-blogging.
And even better, Twitter is very API-friendly, so it will be easy to integrate the comment stream with this site or any number of other applications or devices. For example, Niall [...]

I saw this on del.icio.us, which means that you’ve probably already seen it, too.
But this is one of the most incredible and memorable, while admittedly not useful, feats of mathematics I’ve ever learned about. (Click the image to read more.)

Even after thinking about it all day I still don’t begin to understand how he [...]

Forget everything else, this is the news I’ve been waiting a long time for.
According to Jeff on the Amazon Web Services blog, Amazon’s flagship API, the ECS (E-Commerce Service) now supports a search index called “All”. This index will bring back merged results from all of the catalogs. US only, and it is [...]

If Firefox/Linux hangs on me one more time, I swear I’m going to install Windows.
I’m that frustrated.
(Logo used with permission from Mozilla.org.)

Perhaps one of the most interesting, but as yet most under-noticed, bits of technology to come out of Google in the past year is Google Co-op Custom Search Engines. Google CSE’s give users the power to create a search engine specifically tailored to any topic they can imagine.
A few of us at [...]