{"id":99,"date":"2005-10-05T18:12:39","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T22:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2005-10-05T18:12:39","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T22:12:39","slug":"build-your-own-api-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/99\/build-your-own-api-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Build Your Own API Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

I noticed someone had said Marc Canter wrote about Ning<\/a>. I think that he may have missed an important part of what Ning is about, though.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

Well, let’s start from the top:<\/p>\n

I’m pleading with Gina Bianchini to have Ning PLEASE support the PeopleAggregator APIs once it’s out – and I don’t see any reason why she won’t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No longer does the “Someone else needs to do it” mentality need apply: Applications on Ning are open source. Code can be mixed, cloned, and run any way you want to — including a way to load files and modules from other applications! So, if you have an API you want to support, support it: just develop it and let people know to use XN_Application::includeFile()<\/a>, document it for ning users, and you can develop your API for whatever you want and have other users use it.<\/p>\n

So, once the API for the website you’re talking about is complete — write some code, and put it on Ning, then get people to use it. That’s what Ning is about: Sharing, putting things together, and bringing “View Source” back to the people. This is your chance to make good on something web browsers learned that Macromedia never has: the ability to look at the way something works inside is a huge boon to development, as I think we’ll see as time goes on.<\/p>\n

Of course, there’s also the question of whether Canter still believes that Andreesen: sure as hell hasn’t done shit since – what 1995?<\/a><\/q> \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I noticed someone had said Marc Canter wrote about Ning. I think that he may have missed an important part of what Ning is about, though. Why? Well, let’s start from the top: I’m pleading with Gina Bianchini to have Ning PLEASE support the PeopleAggregator APIs once it’s out – and I don’t see any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,18,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ning","category-social","category-webpub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}