Comments on: Request for an API

Request for an API

signal — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:30:07 -0800

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.

By: kcm

kcm — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:37:21 -0800

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.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:53:38 -0800

API? Have you read the RFC?

By: Ryvar

Ryvar — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:13:41 -0800

I agree. via Dreamghost

By: scarabic

scarabic — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:17:33 -0800

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!!"

By: wakko

wakko — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:39:25 -0800

for easter, one year, i got a copy of "thriller" on vinyl.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 01:01:29 -0800

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.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 01:02:01 -0800

rss: (Check)

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 01:29:32 -0800

Bad Ass Boogalo: (Check)

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 01:30:55 -0800

Jesus, that may as well have been "Bad Ass Bungalow".
Actually, imagine it was.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 01:49:12 -0800

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

Hit it.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 01:56:26 -0800

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.

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 03:20:57 -0800

"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.

By: allen.spaulding

allen.spaulding — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 03:54:39 -0800

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

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:22:13 -0800

Chocolate?

By: dg

dg — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:33:54 -0800

stavros, I think at least half those products have been linked on MeFi in the past month alone.

By: dg

dg — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:34:25 -0800

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

By: Plutor

Plutor — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:37:20 -0800

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

Tails. Poofy, tall, and long, respectively

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:37:52 -0800

"What do the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus, and Web 2.0 have in common?"
They all carry something. Perhaps a virus.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:51:59 -0800

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

You never get what they promised.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 05:31:58 -0800

ch00 talkin' 'bout willis? mathowie fucking invented web 2.0.

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 05:35:23 -0800

"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?

By: allen.spaulding

allen.spaulding — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 05:43:51 -0800

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

Nice entries though.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:22:16 -0800

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?

By: yhbc

yhbc — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:28:08 -0800

Heh. No soap, radio. That one gets me every time.

By: Ryvar

Ryvar — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:29:51 -0800

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?

By: ph00dz

ph00dz — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:56:05 -0800

Giving some the elements metafilter generates reliable names/id's in the html would go a long way towards getting you whatchoo need.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:41:22 -0800

Will it have rounded corners?