links for 2007-06-14
- NewTeeVee Vidmetrix: Epidemiology for Viral Videos: Holt Labs launched Vidmetrix 2.0, making available to everyone a powerful video tracking tool. Building on its suite of online video management applications the new Vidmetrix system tracks the views and interactions viewers are having with videos on the w (tags: video, analytics, media, socialsoftware, viral)
- BuzzMachine: OpenAds: A step in the right direction: “I think this could become the basis of open competition with Google — not replacing Google but allowing publishers and advertisers to put together higher value ad hoc networks. Or maybe I’m just projecting.” (tags: Advertising, Business, Google, media, Web, opensource)
- How To Design Effective APIs: “An excellent talk on “How to Design APIs” given by Joshua Bloch (author of Effective Java, JSR 175 spec lead, and much more)” (tags: architecture, API, Design, development, Google, programming, presentation, Web, video, Technology, software)
- blog.pmarca.com: Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in: “my personal opinion is that the new Facebook Platform is a dramatic leap forward for the Internet industry.” (tags: applications, architecture, API, framework, platform, socialsoftware, development, widgets, webservices, analysis)
- iLike Team Blog: Holy cow… 6mm users and growing 300k/day!: “Launching just over two weeks ago, iLike on Facebook signed up a million users in its first week; then a million more in the 5 days, and another million in the next 4 days. We’re currently signing up about 300,000 new users per day.” (tags: applications, architecture, platform, web2.0, trends, widgets, scalability, socialsoftware, statistics)
- InfoQ: Debate: Does REST Need a Description Language?: “The question that emerged was whether REST needs contracts (a la WSDLs) and even more fundamentally whether REST with contracts was still REST.” (tags: API, architecture, development, programming, REST, soap, webservices, XML, Web)
- InfoQ: REST Describe and Compile: “Thomas Steiner has released version 0.3 of his REST Describe & Compile tool, which creates a WADL description from existing REST messages, and can then in turn generate code for multiple languages.” (tags: architecture, REST, Web, webservices, XML)
- Bad Blood Between eBay and Google | Threadwatch.org: “Google announced they were holding a let freedom ring party to promote Google Checkout during the eBay live conference. In (un)related news, eBay announced they were pulling their US AdWords ad budget. Google responded by canceling their freedom party.” (tags: Google, ebay, Advertising, Business, Commerce)
- RED HERRING | Yahoo, Newspapers Tout Alliance: “Yahoo’s content and advertising alliance with newspapers has grown almost threefold in the program’s first six months, the Internet portal said this week. The rapid growth suggests that Yahoo’s newspaper partnership strategy could prove far more su (tags: Yahoo, media, News, Print, Advertising, Business)
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