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OAuth (October 10, 2007) How to give sites permission to use your web apps, without giving them permission to abuse them.

A whole new ballgame (March 3, 2006) Simplelinks hits on baseball, REST that ain't, and massive PHP Flickr-style.

Versioning REST (February 2, 2006) Ideas on how to version a REST interface and examples of this implementation in Tagyu.

Tagyu API update (February 2, 2006) Tagyu's API now suggests categories as well as tags.

Tagyu API ideas (October 10, 2005) Some mashups you could create with the Tagyu API and some other web services APIs.

Introducing Tagyu (October 10, 2005) Tagyu will suggest tags and keywords for you. Just tell it what you're saying and it will tell you how to tag it.

XHTML Services? (January 1, 2004) Jon Udell says that intranets should abandon Web services like SOAP and REST in favor of screen scraping XHTML. Hogwash.

New MTAmazon forthcoming (May 5, 2003) A new version of MTAmazon will have some great new features. Filter BrowseNode and wishlist searches by keywords, search for items by price, and manage your customer's Amazon shopping cart.

Sorting Amazon (October 10, 2002) Amazon's backend is showing and they are revealing some interesting flaws in their system.

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