Request for an API

January 22, 2006 6:30 PM

For this easter (or whenever matt has the time), I would like a bright, shiny MeFi API.
I know it's been discussed previously, but I still think it is a cool idea. We're falling behind on the Web2.0 bandwagon, before you know it it'll be 3.0 and we'll look like suckers.
posted by signal to feature requests at 6:30 PM (27 comments total)

it would be cool. if someone came up with a few cases where this would enable something that can't be (easily) done now, it would probably help fuel the fire - perhaps a mefi project? I can't wait to be Web2.0 compliant.
posted by kcm at 6:37 PM on January 22, 2006

API? Have you read the RFC?
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:53 PM on January 22, 2006

I agree. via Dreamghost
posted by Ryvar at 7:13 PM on January 22, 2006

On my recent trip to Mexico I was walking through a market, one of those multi-stall places crammed from floor to ceiling with everything. I stepped past a little girl who was reaching out toward an item on a store shelf. Out of nowhere, her little voice burst from her in a startling wail of lament, a spine-decalcifying cry. She grabbed the little knick-knack off the shelf - one of those wooden animal figures painted in myriad flourescent facets - a donkey, or a small horse, perhaps. She turned around and held it toward her mother, as if the figurine itself had caused her sudden and bottomless torment.

"MAMAAAAAAAA!" she bellowed. "YO QUIEROOOOO!!"
posted by scarabic at 11:17 PM on January 22, 2006

for easter, one year, i got a copy of "thriller" on vinyl.
posted by wakko at 12:39 AM on January 23, 2006

If it aint broke, don't fix it.
Also...

folksonomy: (Check)
javascript: (Check)
social not technological: (Check)

It may not look it, but I'd say that metafilter is slightly web2.0 already.
posted by seanyboy at 1:01 AM on January 23, 2006

rss: (Check)
posted by seanyboy at 1:02 AM on January 23, 2006

Bad Ass Boogalo: (Check)
posted by NinjaPirate at 1:29 AM on January 23, 2006

Jesus, that may as well have been "Bad Ass Bungalow".
Actually, imagine it was.
posted by NinjaPirate at 1:30 AM on January 23, 2006

106 miles to Chicago:
full tank of gas:
half a pack of cigarettes:
dark:
wearing sunglasses:

Hit it.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:49 AM on January 23, 2006 [1 favorite]

Also, (self-link ahoy!) I made this last week. It's not as amusing as wankr™, maybe, but I should get bonus points for linking to browpau's Web 2.0 thingy, I reckon.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 1:56 AM on January 23, 2006

"harness social folksonomies"
"integrate AJAX-enabled web services"
...
but.. but these are what people actually say. I don't understand
...
"disintermediate podcasting life-hacks"
Oh, OK, that's better.
posted by NinjaPirate at 3:20 AM on January 23, 2006

What do the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and Web 2.0 have in common?
posted by allen.spaulding at 3:54 AM on January 23, 2006

Chocolate?
posted by NinjaPirate at 4:22 AM on January 23, 2006

stavros, I think at least half those products have been linked on MeFi in the past month alone.
posted by dg at 4:33 AM on January 23, 2006

What do the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and Web 2.0 have in common?
Whiskers?
posted by dg at 4:34 AM on January 23, 2006

dg: "What do the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and Web 2.0 have in common?
Whiskers?"

Tails. Poofy, tall, and long, respectively
posted by Plutor at 4:37 AM on January 23, 2006

"What do the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and Web 2.0 have in common?"
They all carry something. Perhaps a virus.
posted by NinjaPirate at 4:37 AM on January 23, 2006

What do the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and Web 2.0 have in common?

You never get what they promised.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 4:51 AM on January 23, 2006

ch00 talkin' 'bout willis? mathowie fucking invented web 2.0.
posted by quonsar at 5:31 AM on January 23, 2006

"What do the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and Web 2.0 have in common?"
It's terribly exciting until you find out it's just your dad in a suit?
posted by NinjaPirate at 5:35 AM on January 23, 2006

Q: "What do the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and Web 2.0 have in common?"
A: No soap, radio

Nice entries though.
posted by allen.spaulding at 5:43 AM on January 23, 2006

Well, stavros, I liked it until I got to the fine print: "†*Note: Profits for your Web 2.0 company are not guaranteed."

What good is it, then?
posted by OmieWise at 7:22 AM on January 23, 2006

Heh. No soap, radio. That one gets me every time.
posted by yhbc at 7:28 AM on January 23, 2006

What good is it, then?

You make a lot on the IPO and then cash out before the whole house of cards collapses. Duh.

Sheesh, weren't you around for Web 1.0?
posted by Ryvar at 7:29 AM on January 23, 2006

Giving some the elements metafilter generates reliable names/id's in the html would go a long way towards getting you whatchoo need.
posted by ph00dz at 10:56 AM on January 23, 2006

Will it have rounded corners?
posted by loquacious at 11:41 AM on January 23, 2006