As I'm sure you've heard, BOSS is our fantastic search webservices platform that gives you a flexible and powerful interface through which you can Build your Own Search Service, hence the name. BuildaSearch is a new application that allows you to.
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With the release of Google's new highly-performant Chrome browser, it remains clear that there's a massive amount of investment behind Javascript-based applications. So it's neat that we still have one of the best Javascript libraries...
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There's always room for one more Flickr-related post! I've always thought that the concept of using machine tags in Flickr to associate photos to other chunks of structured data is really neat and super effective, as evinced internally by groups..
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...is Open Hack Day! Internal hack days have been going strong, but there's nothing quite as cool as inviting external developers to our campus to geek out, eat pizza, play Guitar Hero, and come up with awesome projects using our APIs that we're..
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This is just plain silly (and awesome) -- Jacob Seidelin created a Flickr photo browser modeled after a level of Wolfenstein 3D. That's the magic of having an open and easily consumable API: motivated and creative users will do all of the hard work...
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