"With Flickr you can get out, via the API, every single piece of information you put into the system. Asking people to accept anything else is sharecropping. It’s a bad deal. Flickr helped pioneer “Web 2.0″, and personal data ownership is a key piece of that vision. Just because the wider public hasn’t caught on yet to all the nuances around data access, data privacy, data ownership, and data fidelity, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be embarrassed to be failing to deliver a quality product."

Five rational arguments against Apple’s 3.3.1 policy

12 Apr 2010

By Dominik Schwind

"Lots of developers, me included, have had such a gut-turning reaction to Apple’s new policy that we have a hard time thinking and speaking rationally. The emotions take over and we start screaming “fascists!”, which isn’t very persuasive to non-developers who don’t have the same instinctual reaction. So instead, allow me to go through five (mostly) rational arguments for why this is a bad idea."

Ergast Developer API

23 Feb 2010

By Dominik Schwind

Ergast Developer API

Well, how useful is THAT? An F1 data API. I'm impressed and happy.

Laying the foundation for API versioning

22 Feb 2010

By Dominik Schwind

Laying the foundation for API versioning

Okay, I need to check my various Twitter tools if they do that.

KrazyDad – Mayor of the North Pole

16 Feb 2010

By Dominik Schwind

KrazyDad – Mayor of the North Pole

How one dude used the foursquare API to create multiple users who checked in at multiple places – often weird ones and even more often "stealing" the mayorship of real users.

Bookmarks for December 18th through December 21st

21 Dec 2009

By Dominik Schwind

These are my links for December 18th through December 21st:

Get ‘Mini Squadron’… for Free | Touch Arcade –
Epic 70-Minute Phantom Menace Review Justifies the Existence of The Phantom Menace – The phantom menace – Gizmodo –
A Whole Lotta Nothing: In Defense of Twittering During Tragedy –
The Twitter API is Finished. Now What? – Anil Dash – It's egregious that the newest implementations of the Twitter API are stil encouraging people to share their passwords with third-party sites. Five or ten years ago, this was common practice in APIs because we didn't have better options. Twitter started out using shared passwords, but mercifully has started to bring OAuth support online. But for new services to be encouraging the horrible practice of users entering their passwords into every application willy-nilly is just unacceptable.
Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source –

Bookmarks for December 9th through December 17th

17 Dec 2009

By Dominik Schwind

These are my links for December 9th through December 17th:

Semantic Versioning – Yes.
The Sexy Side of PEZ! –
Lost in the Filth Simulacrum –
Is this Le Web or Le Clique? | HPC – But here at Le Web 09, I feel like I’m staring that ugliness right in the eye. The program is mostly made up of the members and sycophants of the cartel mentioned above.