Twitter Adds Group Messaging and Native Video

By Vasudev Ram

Saw this via a tweet.

http://www.programmableweb.com/news/twitter-adds-group-messaging-and-native-video/elsewhere-web/2015/01/27

Should be interesting to check it out once ready. They say the group messaging feature will allow for messaging to small groups of up to 20 at a time. Could be useful for some applications.

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Netflix's many uses of Python

The Netflix Tech Blog: Python at Netflix

Interesting article.

They talk about using Python for many areas at Netflix, including for the cloud (AWS), caching, process management, web interfaces, data crunching and REST.

I've come across many different uses of Python before, like others have (after all, it is a versatile language, with many "batteries included"), but this may be the first post I've seen that talks about so many uses of Python at one place.

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epubmaker, Project Gutenberg tool to convert between HTML, ReST, to EPUB, Kindle, PDF

By Vasudev Ram


epubmaker is a Project Gutenberg tool to convert HTML or restructured text to EPUB, Kindle, PDF formats.

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Google RESTful APIs now have a Python Client Library

By Vasudev Ram



Python Client Library for Google APIs is out of Beta

Excerpt:

[ If you are building a Python application that uses Google APIs, we strongly recommend you use this client library. First, the library makes it simple to call any RESTful Google API and grab the data returned by the call. Also, the client library handles the OAuth 2.0 authentication protocol and all errors for you without the need to write any additional code. ]

I read in the above post that Joe Gregorio is one of the developers of this library. Joe is the creator (among other things) of the httplib2 Python HTTP client, which has some improvements over the HTTP-related modules in Python's standard library.

Get the Google API Python Client Library.

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Noelios, Restlet creator, launches APISpark

By Vasudev Ram

The creators of Restlet, an open source Java library for creating RESTful applications, are launching a web platform called APISpark, which they describe as the "first all-in-one online platform for web APIs". There are more details at this blog post on the new Restlet.com web site. Restlet is the new name of their company, formerly called Noelios. The older Restlet.org site will continue to exist.

You can sign up here to get more info about APISpark when it is available.

Disclosure: Your clicking on the above sign up link may give me faster access to the APISpark beta, due to the presence of the trailing "kid=" parameter. This is similar to what Dropbox and other sites do these days - referrals give you "credit" in some way. No other benefit to me.



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Picloud - publish Python function and call it via REST

By Vasudev Ram - dancingbison.com | @vasudevram | jugad2.blogspot.com

This looks interesting. Just saw it on Hacker News, maybe more later after checking it out.

Picloud - publish your Python function and call it via REST:

http://blog.picloud.com/2011/09/14/introducing-function-publishing-via-rest/

They have a simple three-step process for making your Python functions callable across the Net via REST:

1. Define your function (on your own machine)
2. Upload it to PiCloud via a method call on their library which you download (once only).
3. Call it via Python (or via the curl utility for manual testing).

JSON format is supported for the output.

Hacker News thread about it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2999247

Update: the PiCloud team consists of former UC Berkeley graduates and the company has backing from Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, as per their site.

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