Archive for the tag “API”

Search for “API” on Technorati.

Amazon Plugin Authorization

July 31st, 2009 by Martin Kliehm; 51 Comments

Starting August 15th, the AWS Product Advertising API, as the former E-Commerce Service is now called, will only accept signed requests. The plugin will stop working if you don’t update. Thus I needed to re-engineer a few functions of my WordPress Amazon Machine Tags Plugin. […]

Enhanced Keyboard-accessible Google Maps

April 28th, 2009 by Martin Kliehm; 1 Comment

Patrick H. Lauke wrote an excellent article about keyboard-accessible Google Maps on the Opera Developer website. Still I was able to improve it slightly when I implemented an accessible map myself. I would like to share these modifications with you.

Crowdsourcing YouTube Video Captioning

March 31st, 2008 by Martin Kliehm; 13 Comments

When Chris Heilmann had the splendid idea to add captioning to YouTube videos with Google’s JavaScript API, I asked myself if there wasn’t a better way. There is, but to my surprise neither YouTube nor Yahoo! Video take advantage of that capability. […]

Amazon Machine Tags Plugin for WordPress

December 1st, 2007 by Martin Kliehm; 202 Comments

I always wanted to implement one thing since I started the blog: a simple inclusion of Amazon items. I didn’t want to search through results that existing plugins provided. When I wrote about something like a book, I already used machine tags to identify the subject! So I found the inspiration to write my first real WordPress plugin: Amazon Machine Tags. […]