Wordnik Launches Reverb, a New Company Offering Tools For Increasing Content Discovery and Engagement
blog.programmableweb.com
on 01/25/2013
Excerpt: Wordnik, a popular online dictionary and words related content platform, has just launched a brand new company called Reverb. Reverb will be the new home of the Wordnik API as well as expand on the Wordnik platform offering tools that “find and connect the rich associations between words, ideas, content, and people. ”
Wordnik will continue to be developed as a stand-alone, online dictionary resource, and as described in the press release, the “flagship application” of Reverb:
At this time, applications that use the Wordnik API do not need to make any code changes. Attribution requirements for commercial projects and the free 15,000 API calls per hour rate have not changed and remain in effect.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Content, Discovery, Wordnik
Online dictionary Wordnik launches story suggestion engine Reverb
paidcontent.org
on 01/22/2013
Excerpt: Summary: Content recommendation services are becoming big business. The latest entrant is Reverb, a site that draws on its experience as a dictionary maker to offer useful story suggestions. When you finish reading this story, what should you read next? This question is becoming a growing preoccupation for web publishers who are turning to a variety of story suggestion tools in hopes of keeping you on the page. The latest offering comes from a company called Reverb, which believes its background as a dictionary publisher makes it well poised to find readers relevant content.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Content, Wordnik
Introducing SwaggerSocket: A REST over WebSocket Protocol
blog.wordnik.com
on 04/26/2012
Excerpt: REST is a style of software architecture which is almost always delivered over HTTP. It powers most of the World Wide Web and has enabled the rapid construction of APIs–it has allowed developers to easily integrate many complex services with their applications. It has been truly transformational over the last 10 years. The problem is, HTTP is a chatty, synchronous communication protocol based entirely on “request/response”. That is, there is no easy way to open continuous communication between a client and a server. You have to “ask a question” and wait for the response.... read the full post.
My Thoughts: This is huge. I'm not 100% convinced that WebSockets are going to be the next step for the API space, but it is looking likely that REST + WebSockets will be the way handle the real-time nature of the web, while still building upon REST. I need to dive in more and understand what Wordnik has done with SwaggerSocket, definitely more to come on this subject.
Tags: HTML5, Real-Time, Swagger, WebSocket, Wordnik
Excerpt: Summary: Content recommendation services are becoming big business. The latest entrant is Reverb, a site that draws on its experience as a dictionary maker to offer useful story suggestions. When you finish reading this story, what should you read next? This question is becoming a growing preoccupation for web publishers who are turning to a variety of story suggestion tools in hopes of keeping you on the page. The latest offering comes from a company called Reverb, which believes its background as a dictionary publisher makes it well poised to find readers relevant content.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Content, Wordnik
