Data Standards?
Today’s general data standards are akin to yesterday’s HTML/CSS browser support standards. The first rev of Gecko (not to be confused w/ the original Mosaic/Navigator rendering engine) at Netscape was...
View ArticleBeta 2 Technical Update
api.gnip.com has been up for a couple of weeks now and I thought I’d take a moment to update folks on how things are going. One thing I’ll note early is that our original production environment remains...
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Guest Post, Rick Boykin: Gnip C# .NET Convenience Library
Now that the new Gnip convenience libraries have been published for a few weeks on GitHub, I’m going to tell you a bit about the libraries that I’m currently responsible for, the .NET libraries. So,...
View ArticleHOW-TO: Twitter Search Publisher
There has been some confusion around how to leverage Gnip’s Twitter Search (“twitter-search”) Publisher. We have work to do in order to clarify this use case from a usability/documentation standpoint,...
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xml.to_json
Gnip spends an in-ordinate amount of time slicing and dicing data for our customers. Normalizing the web’s data is something we’ve been doing for a long time now, and we’ve gone through many...
View ArticleSwiss Army Knives: cURL & tidy
Iterating quickly is what makes modern software initiatives work, and the mantra applies to everything in the stack. From planning your work, to builds, things have to move fast, and feedback loops...
View ArticleActivity Streams
Gnip pledges allegiance to Activity Streams. Consuming data from APIs with heterogeneous response formats is a pain. From basic format differences (XML vs JSON) to the semantics around structure and...
View ArticleOfficial Google Buzz Firehose Added to Gnip’s Social Media API
Today we’re excited to announce the integration of the Google Buzz firehose into Gnip’s social media data offering. Google Buzz data has been available via Gnip for some time, but today Gnip became one...
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What Does Compound Interest Have to do with Evolving APIs?
Once Albert Einstein was asked what he found to be important discoveries. His answer did not mention physics, relativity theory, or fun stuff like Higgs bosons – but instead he said: “Compound interest...
View ArticleTwitter XML, JSON & Activity Streams at Gnip
About a month ago Twitter announced they will be shutting off XML for stream based endpoints on Dec, 6th, 2010, in order to exclusively support JSON. While JSON users/supporters are cheering, for some...
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