Archive for March, 2008

Let’s write about YelloYello..

We just wanted to let everybody know that YelloYello is being discussed in An De Jonghe’s book: Social Networks Around The World: ‘How is web 2.0 changing your daily life?‘. Sadly we did not (yet) receive a free copy .. so if anybody has some inside information on what is written .. let us […]

Youtube finally open..

In 2007 the Youtube crew already mentioned they were working on upload support. No.. not just the upload abilities they have on the site.. but API upload support. And finally they’ve released their new API.
“Here’s the sound byte: We now support upload, other write operations, and internationalized standard feeds. (And there was much rejoicing!) We’re […]

Contact importers, the easy way.. finally!

Finally there is a real (and official) way that makes your contacts portable: the Google Contact API. Before today all web applications that needed user’s email addresses needed to scrape a user’s email service (like Hotmail, Gmail, etc).
Of course the Plaxo (and our own Skipid) Widget made it easier for developers to create contacts of […]

Skipid, the instant Plaxo Widget replacement

Some time ago we at Joopp have created a contact-importer. Actually, we’ve extracted code from YelloYello and put it in a separate project. This way we can easily use it in all our projects.
While doing this we thought: maybe this can be useful for YOU :). So we looked at the existing Plaxo Widget and […]

Hyves API v1.0 for Ruby

Hyves (the #1 social network in The Netherlands) released their API v1.0 a few weeks ago. We already created some kind of Ruby wrapper some time ago (for the old API), but now we have a (very quickly created) wrapper for v1.0.
It works as follows:

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require ‘hyves_api/hyves_api’
# You need to apply for a key via http://www.hyves.nl/api/apply/
key […]

Hello World! (Joopp’s Blog in English)

Hello World!
You’ve reached Joopp’s Blog. The new blog of Joopp. This is the actual first post but we’ve also put online the posts of blog.yelloyello.com since we’re probably closing that blog down in the next few months.
Despite the fact that we’re not native English speakers we’ve decided to start writing in a language almost the […]




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