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"The Open Definition gives full details on the requirements for 'open' data and content. Open data are the building blocks of open knowledge. Open knowledge is what open data becomes when it's useful, usable and used. The key features of openness are: Availability and access: the data must be available as a whole and at no more than a reasonable reproduction cost, preferably by downloading over the internet. The data must also be available in a convenient and modifiable form. Reuse and redistribution: the data must be provided under terms that permit reuse and redistribution including the intermixing with other datasets. The data must be machine-readable. Universal participation: everyone must be able to use, reuse and redistribute - there should be no discrimination against fields of endeavour or against persons or groups. For example, 'non-commercial' restrictions that would prevent 'commercial' use, or restrictions of use for certain purposes (e.g. only in education), are not allowed."

Petit tutoriel sur comment installer l'API diigo sur Chrome

Imgur's API exposes the entire Imgur infrastructure via a standardized programmatic interface. Using Imgur's API, you can do just about anything you can do on imgur.com, while using your programming language of choice. The Imgur API is a RESTful API based on HTTP requests and XML or JSON(P) responses. If you're familiar with the APIs of Twitter, Amazon's S3, del.icio.us, or a host of other web services, you'll feel right at home.

"The music industry should explore blockchain technology used in cryptocurrencies to ensure musicians are paid fairly for streams and sales of their work, according to a report published by the US-based Rethink Music initiative. The report, which is being widely circulated within the industry, suggests that embracing cryptocurrency technology could bring more transparency to the debate about musicians' income from streaming services like Spotify"

Voici un article qui décrit les difficultés qu'on peut rencontrer lorsqu'on utilise des licences Creative Commons. L'article est en anglais.

"The company's product is exactly as it sounds - all the basic tech underlying Uber's business, bundled for you to purchase and use. Mowares is targeting budding entrepreneurs who wish to start up an on-demand business of whatever kind, as well as business owners who want to extend their offerings with an on-demand service à la Uber."

"What is critical about media technologies? Media technologies offer the critical situation in which issues of power and knowledge are constantly operationalized. In other words, while we have to learn to be critical of media in the sense of media literacy, we also have to see how media IS critical; it divides and differentiates; it grounds and processes distinctions that are fundamental to cultural formations even if not always anymore even perceptible to us. After phenomenology, media ontology."

"A research blog dedicated to the Human Flesh Search Engine (人肉搜索), a contemporary Chinese internet phenomenon in which netizens use the internet and web forums to target notorious online personalities to discern their real identity. The purpose of this blog is to keep up to date with new instances and advancements of the search engine at work, as well as collate my past and ongoing research into the subject matter."

"The CERN-OHL is to hardware what the General Public Licence (GPL) is to software. It defines the conditions under which a licensee will be able to use or modify the licensed material. The concept of 'open-source hardware' or 'open hardware' is not yet as well known or widespread as the free software or open-source software concept. However, it shares the same principles: anyone should be able to see the source (the design documentation in case of hardware), study it, modify it and share it."

Cet article explique la différence entre le bookmarking "traditionnel" et le bookmarking "social". Il fait ensuite une brève comparaison entre le service Diigo, Delicious et un browser. Il explique ensuite les avantages du "social bookmarking". L'article est en anglais.

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"Is your property listed on airbnb without your permission? Look no further, enter your exact physical address and we will do the hard work for you!" [Service Disruption] - Airbnb has patched their API that doesn't allows us to access the location information for more than 20 listings for a given zipcode. Unfortunately, due to this change we are no longer able to return all the correct results

self explanatory...

En complément à la gestion collaborative de bookmarks, Trello propose un système de gestion commune de projets intéressante.

DOI: 10.1007/s11095-010-0059-0 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 Doing more with less resources used to be a situation common just for academic scientists. This is unfortunately still true for academics, but we are seeing others facing many of the same challenges.

Learn how the Graph API is structured, how versioning works and what access tokens are. Learn how to publish to and retrieve data from Facebook using the Graph API. Get the full details of all the nodes, edges, and fields in the latest version of the Graph API.

Twitch-API - A home for details about our API The Twitch API enables you to develop your own applications using the rich feature set that we provide. Features include retrieving data about what streams are live, changing information about specific channels, and doing an SSO integration with Twitch

Create awesome websites and web applications with Twitch content and audience data. Using our set of APIs, web developers are able to integrate Twitch content and embed Twitch video and streams into their games, gaming communities, platforms, and production tools.

The Sync API is like having a private filesystem for your app with its very own Dropbox client running in the background. Your app can read, create, and modify files using familiar filesystem-like calls. Behind the scenes, the Sync API takes care of syncing changes to Dropbox and notifying your app when changes are made in Dropbox, so you can update your UI instantly.

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This document details the background knowledge that you need in order to use the Google Books API.

That's a web application using the Airbnb API