20070515

For the next 6 months my grand father's work will be shown at the Musée Rodin.

Everything is Miscellanous made it into my ... The Cluetrain Manifesto is still very relevant in my view and David Weinberger is a very entertaining speaker (he worked/wrote with Woody Allen ... with hindsight it is kind of obvious).

I'll venture a comment on the importance of APIs for web services providers and especially Python API (for people like me :P) and my new love for Yahoo!.

I have an idea to make Inline Search more useful by suggesting to IS users other sources of information one can find on the web, related to the document currently displayed and the word(s) searched (obviously as smartly as possible and in an unobtrusive manner).

I looked at the functionalities offered by the APIs of Google, Live and Yahoo! The terms of the Do No Evil G don't allow me to do what I want it seems. Both Live and Yahoo! offer interesting functionalities. I looked for ways to experiment with my tool of choice i.e. Python which proved too hard a task for Live (installing unsupported modules that don't work well on a Windows box unless one has VS2003 installed, it is not a Live problem as such but there is no obvious way to use Python to do it).

pYsearch, a module to work with Yahoo Search Web Services is the killer solution! Go Python, great module and thanks Yahoo! for an impressive API.

Making it easy for developers to play with your services in most mainstream languages (at least Python :P) is a good and viral way to promote your service by having people build funky things on top of it.