Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

- standardised set of GData APIs for accessing lists of friends and their activities (like the Facebook news feed)
- bunch of JavaScript APIs for enabling developers to write hostable widgets and “container sites” to embed those widgets
(Simon Willison)

(tags: opensocial google appsyndication applicationhosting syndication socialnetworks socialnetworking api javascript)

primer in Amazon’s Electric Computer Cloud service, with some details on how the system works (not only useful for Python programmers!)

(tags: amazonwebservices api aws ec2 s3 amazon writeup tutorial infrastructure virtualization)