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Yahoo Launches SQL Interface to Twitter | Stay N' Alive

The new YQL set of tables for Twitter enables any developer to use simple SQL-like queries to retrieve and post Twitter data.

interesting, even though for real stuff I would not want one api between apis but for quick hacks ...

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Factual Raises $1 Million Seed Round From Andreessen Horowitz, Idealab, And Angels

Factual is setting out to get people to create as many open databases as possible by providing tools for creating table son any topic, embedding them and sharing them. There are already hundreds fo thousands of tables on Factual, dome large some small. For instance, Creative Commons created a database filled with Websites using Creative Commons licenses that contains 4 million rows. All the data in Factual is editable in a wiki-like fashion and is available through Factual APIs.

sounds very interesting indeed. we need something like this in germany.

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LinkedIn gives Bump a run for its money with latest iPhone app | VentureBeat

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Now this is cool. Sadly I can probably throw off some other apps now.

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Xing Labs Feature: Mac Address Book Sync

Very nice! Hoping it works ;)

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Twilio Raises $3.7 Million For Powerful Telephony API

he Twilio service allows developers to integrate common phone actions (like placing calls or playing back a recording) using a small set of basic API commands.

Wow, now that's another service I'd love to see here. But there is similar stuff already out there but possibly not that simple. And the simplicity is that what rocks.

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An Ecosystem Is Born: LinkedIn Opens Up API

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/6C_YD_1EX2M/

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As rumors continue to swirl around LinkedIn’s possible IPO, the professional social network is steadily adding useful features that help transcend the platform’s technology into other…

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Betting that Brizzly will be huge, ex-Googlers are working on things

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/11/brizzly.html

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Brizzly does look interesting but I tried and didn’t see it as a lot better than the Twitter website and namvu is still my facorite client on the mac next to tweetie on the…

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