Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

Fleck meets Seesmic. Annotate a web page with a webcam-recorded comment, that will be framed in a bubble floating over the webpage. Freemium service, but the free part is so limited (max 50 views over 30 days) that this will never take off.

"YQL is a SQL-style language to get information from all kind of web services, and – using oAuth – even Yahoo's social graph"
"What about screenscraping? You can get data from any valid HTML document using XPATH with select * from html."

SQL-like interface to public Yahoo! data.
From http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/ :
"Yahoo! makes a lot of structured data available to developers, primarily through its web services. These services require developers to locate the right URLs and documentation to access and query them which can result in a very fragmented experience. The YQL platform provides a single endpoint service that enables developers to query, filter and combine data across Yahoo! and beyond. YQL exposes a SQL-like SELECT syntax that that is both familiar to developers and expressive enough for getting the right data."