Identi.ca/ Laconi.ca gets its first API
Tech : Duncan Riley
Posted: July 17, 2008

The team behind the open source Twitter alternative Laconi.ca, the code behind the Identi.ca microblogging service, has released the codes first API.

The new API is described by the Laconi.ca dev team as Version 0 and not a “real API”, but a way to read and write to Identi.ca programmatically. The API 0 also has a time limit, where they only promise it will be available until “atleast September 30, 2008.”

By their own account, the new API appears to be a stop gap measure until a fully blown API becomes available, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction.

Full details on the API here, and there already appears to be some basic tools built using it.

See our previous Identi.ca/ Laconi.ca coverage here and here.

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  • July 17, 2008 at 4:50 pm Bwana McCall
    Do I hear Rocky music? (Eye of the Tiger)
  • July 17, 2008 at 4:59 pm Michael C. Harris
    I really hope you're on a Skype call with Winer right now. Refreshing your post for the scoop :)
  • July 17, 2008 at 5:04 pm Duncan Riley
    Michael, if there's more I'll be updating it, naturally, although the API is pretty new
  • July 17, 2008 at 5:05 pm Michael C. Harris
    Duncan, I was referring to Winer's comments on the post. Perhaps you haven't seen them yet?
  • July 17, 2008 at 5:13 pm Bwana McCall
    Don't know why, but I'm getting network timeouts when trying to reach the page.. never has happened before :(
  • July 17, 2008 at 5:13 pm Duncan Riley
    Michael, I have read them and I'm monitoring various channels. The API as I've written it up could be it, but it could be a fully fledged Twitter compatible (new) API as well....least that's what I'm reading people speaking in German talking about :-)
  • July 17, 2008 at 5:24 pm directeur
    What's bad IMHO about identi.ca is that the solution offers to build multiple isles connected *two-by-two* i.e. A is connected to B, B is connected to C. But A doesn't know about C (if it's not connected to it). What's the benifit? Decentralization of course! What's the inconvenient? When a node of identi.ca's clones is down there's no mean to have a real continious discussion.
  • July 17, 2008 at 5:37 pm Alexander Williams
    @directeur: I haven't dug in there enough to know whether it's required to be acyclic or not. If not, then it could be just set up as a redundant mesh with multiple nodes reconnecting to the fabric in various places. If not, link-deaths are going to be brutal. Didn't we already solve this problem? :P
  • July 17, 2008 at 5:59 pm directeur
    @squidlord: Good idea indeed! And yes we did! :) I still somehow think that we're reinventing the wheel at a certain level. I'm sure that Identica folks are that close to find the ultimate solution, but IMHO having an established and well studied design and concept (I'm not talking about the openmicroblogging protocol, I don't believe in it) is the first thing to do. Delivering an API is the last thing to do. I'm like that I LOVE to challenge established concepts ;-)
  • July 17, 2008 at 6:24 pm Alexander Williams
    @directeur: I've always felt the API needs to be done early, actually, and the rest of your interface should descend from it. If it's not useful to you as a designer, then why should it be useful to folks who want to leverage your work? (IRC, damnit. I totally want to see someone impliment a Twitter-clone on an IRC backend. :))
  • July 17, 2008 at 6:57 pm directeur
    @Alexander Williams (squidlord): Yes! Done before (it's a design workflow) but *delivered* when your design is solid. And Oh yes! I dream of an IRC solution too :)
  • July 17, 2008 at 7:04 pm Alexander Williams
    @directeur (directeur): Maybe we should write one, mang? ;)
  • July 17, 2008 at 7:07 pm directeur
    @Alexander Williams (squidlord): Why not? :)
  • July 17, 2008 at 8:41 pm Sarah Perez
    Now integrate it into Twhirl!

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