Simon Willison’s Weblog

How we made an API for BoingBoing in an evening. Fluidinfo really is a fascinating piece of software. The team loaded in 11 years of BoingBoing content, allowing you to run structured queries against the data using their standard API, but also allowing users to attach their own information to the same corpus using Fluidinfo tags. Writable APIs are much less common than read-only APIs—Fluidinfo instantly provides both.

# 28th January 2011, 10:56 pm / apis, boingboing, fluiddb, recovered, fluidinfo

Introducing the FluidDB Explorer. Every good API deserves a dedicated API browser.

# 13th January 2011, 4:19 am / apis, fluiddb, recovered

The Guardian 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read in FluidDB. Nicholas J. Radcliffe loaded the Guardian’s list of 1000 novels in to FluidDB, where the ability for users to add their own ratings style metadata makes it an ideal dataset for exploring the capabilities of the platform.

# 13th September 2009, 11:48 pm / fluiddb, guardian

FluidDB domain names available early (and free) for Twitter users. It’s interesting how Twitter has revitalised the concept of usernames as first class identifiers. FluidDB hasn’t even launched yet, but it’s allowing people to reserve their Twitter username within the FluidDB system just by following @fluidDB.

# 24th January 2009, 11:44 pm / fluiddb, identity, terry-jones, twitter, usernames