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Over at the Yahoo Developer Blog, I just posted a quick tutorial how you can use the Yahoo Music API to show videos of your favourite band in a few dozen lines of JavaScript.
This is a bit of a rough’n’ready way of doing it and I’ll get some more sophisticated examples out there once I gave some feedback to the Music API team :)
We are one step closer to turning online video into a great resource for the hard of hearing or even for non-native speakers to learn languages better. Google just announced support for closed captioning in YouTube videos:
Congratulations, and thank you, YouTube, I personally learnt a lot from captions in TV shows and videos and if that catches on there is nothing from stopping us to crowdsource captioning.
Over at the .net awards I was just confused to find me in category 13 as a contender for “Standards Champion”.
The competition is err… I go and pack:
Well I’ve got the body of Dave and the hair of Molly (granted more colourful). That should count for something!
As it is Friday and I am jetlagged I declare “pointless API Friday” and give you Scrabblr.
Scrabblr allows you to send a word to it and it returns the scrabble value or an error in case the word has too many instances of a character than there are tiles available. Output formats are either a simple string (no format defined), XML or JSON. For JSON you also can have a callback parameter to use the API in script nodes.
Examples:
The conference that inspired me to start Scripting Enabled, Accessibility2.0 just released transcripts and audio files of all the presentations, including my “Fencing in the habitat”:
[slideshare id=372843&doc=fencinginthehabitat-1209163055552778-9&w=425]
Thanks to AbilityNet for releasing all the transcripts and offering them for us to enjoy. There were some really good presentations at this event, hope you find something!