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Google’s Social Graph API crawls the web and extracts publicly available relationship data (edges) for people on various public pages marked up with XFN or FOAF metadata (nodes). Like many others, I have accounts on Twitter, Flickr, FriendFeed, etc., which are all great sources to crawl for social graph edge relationships, but a number [...]

I released python-twitter 0.4 earlier today (homepage, download, source, docs).
This release brings the library back in sync with all of the new Twitter API functionality, closes the open issues, and introduces several new features.
Highlights include:

Unicode support
Support for sending direct messages, adding friends, featured users, etc.
Stopped using setuptools
Cleaner auth model
And more…

If you can do something via [...]

My friend Dare Obasanjo recently wrote about some of the differences that he perceived between the latest draft Atom Publishing Protocol specification and the GData protocol specifications.
A few of his observations were correct, and a few were incorrect, so I thought it might help if I shared my understanding of GData’s relationship with APP.
First, GData [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

David Kane over at Eph Blog posed a question on how to create a feed that aggregates news sources on a particular topic. As he illustrates, a single news search engine alone limited insofar as it may not cover enough news sources. The comments to his post discuss a few possible ways to [...]