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pressflip now has an apiToday

We have released a simple REST-like api that lets you access all of the data from your pressflip account.  Apis are clearly designed for nerds so check out the specification for the full story.  At a high level the api allows you to:

• Save a search into a user’s account
• Get the results from the user’s account
• Get results from user’s particular saved search
• Get the most recent public sharing activity across the site
• Get the shared results for a particular user
• Follow another user
• Unfollow another user
• Get followers for a user
• Get who the user is following

We have provided an XSD schema of the api.  This is useful for generating objects client side to deal with our XML output and structure (JAXB in Java for example).

Matt has also created an extremely simple api client in Java.

All of the api documentation and discussion happens on the pressflip-api google group: http://groups.google.com/group/pressflip-api

The Twitter application on pressflip follows the links your...October 2

The Twitter application on pressflip follows the links your friends share and matches relevant results to your saved searches.

The result from a Twitter application has the tweet as the title, the snippet of where the actual content from the link was relevant and the Twitter username at the bottom with a permalink to the status.

This is a quick explanation of how to add/remove and configure...October 1

This is a quick explanation of how to add/remove and configure applications on pressflip.

Better Integration for SearchOctober 1

Searching for information is a pretty standard exchange: you type in your query, and the search engine gives you a list of links.  That’s all well and good, and most of the time you find what you’re looking for.

But where do those links come from?  Google, Yahoo, and other search engines crawl the web, following links they find on web pages to other web pages.  All the links you see in your search results look the same, no matter where they came from.  What about the context?  Where did that link come from?  What are people saying about it?  If there was a long conversation about a link on Digg.com, wouldn’t you like to know?

Integrating Services to Search

Pressflip is an interesting search application because it’s not Google - our users save searches and get results over time, as they are published.  Because it’s not Google, it doesn’t work like Google: Google is like a librarian who can find what you need to know, but Pressflip is like a guy who watches a news ticker and hands you what you’re looking for as it’s written.

Because it works differently, we can do some really neat things with the stuff Pressflip reads.

We have been working for the past two months, changing our backend architecture.  We’ve been changing it from a plain-vanilla saved search application to a platform for saved search applications. This means that when we find a silo of information, we can write an application using the

A New LookSeptember 5

We have finished our migration and revealed a slightly modified look and feel.

Everything is now running smoothly on our new architecture and we should be rolling out new features within the next couple of weeks.