Andre Torrez has released a graphical XML-RPC request builder for Windows. I built something similar when I was creating Pocket Blog, but Andre’s tool is much better.
Tag Archive for 'weblog-apis'
XML-RPC Request Builder
24Feb03More on Blogger API v2
18Dec02To follow-up on myself… Dave Winer is with me, pleading for extending the MetaWeblog API. Ev fired back, “If we thought the MetaWeblog API suited our needs, we would gladly adopt it.”
How about 100 words explaining why the MW API is lacking? It only took me 26 to explain how all of the new […]
MMS Blogging
17Dec02Emmanuel has made his first MMS post to Movable Type using a prototype P800. He has developed a Rube Goldberg solution that:
posts the pictures (the original and a thumbnail) to the blog server (FTP), formats the text using the attachments, adds links to the pictures and post a new entry.
Why wait for Multimedia Weblogs?
Blogger API v2
11Dec02Preliminary Blogger API v2 documentation has been released to bloggerDev readers. I think that it stinks:
I’m not happy to see a new, incompatible API. The future use of login tokens could have been hacked on top of the existing methods without changing their signatures. Most of the new functionality is already covered by the MetaWeblog […]
Mobs, Weblogs, Multimedia
08Dec02Moblogging is different than Blogwalking, but it doesn’t have to be.
*back, Part VI (status update)
15Nov02Lessee… The basic ping retrieval API is nailed down and I was thinking of release it last night, but I decided that I should complete my implementation first. The PHP code for the API itself is done, freshly refactored for cleanliness and error handling, but I hadn’t started working on a UI for managing accounts […]
What I’m working on…
11Nov02I love the concepts of Trackback and Pingback, but these systems are designed to work with weblog software that runs on the web server. Radio runs on the desktop, Blogger and many other weblog tools run on someone else’s servers. A large group of webloggers are essentially unable to participate.
And even though I upgraded to […]
