"Underneath the hood, though, the technologies that make mashups
possible are a profound change in how web sites manage and expose their
data. More and more sites are exposing their data using simple RESTful
APIs and XML feeds, and the new tools in Drupal 6 will make integrating
that data into your sites a lot easier."

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"When Google announced that its new social-networking initiative would extend to any site that wanted to participate, the land grab for the social Web's attention just got a whole lot more intense."

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"So, I want a true, native, API-level content management system. Where does such a thing exist? Start naming names."

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"Summary: This white paper examines some of the new capabilities that are built-in to the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Edition, which enable business process automation and simplify the business process. This white paper demonstrates the tight integration between the SharePoint Server portal, including InfoPath Forms Services and the Business Data Catalog, as well as the various other Office System 2007 applications and features, including InfoPath 2007 and SharePoint Designer 2007. In addition, this solution illustrates how programmatically accessing and manipulating various SharePoint Server components, such as the Member group and user permissions, as well as the BDC and legacy LOB data sources with the SharePoint APIs that are provided out-of-the-box, enables this type of business process automation."

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"A while back, the WordPress development team decided to aim for date-targeted, quarterly releases, to speed up the development cycle. One of the main things this does is to give more frequent updates, but with fewer "big" new features in each release. The target for WordPress 2.2 was set for around April 23...

...But, since these changes [tags] have come about so close to the scheduled release date, the developers have decided to push the release back by "a week or two", according to Matt. I have a feeling that this will definitely be worth it in the long run. The improved tags API and underlying database schema are going to open a lot of interesting doors for plugin developers."

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Jeremy Epstein: Import / Export API: progress report #1 -

"It's been almost two weeks since the 2006 Summer of Code began, and with it, my work to develop an import / export API module for Drupal. In case you missed it, my work is being documented on this wiki. My latest code is now also available as a project on drupal.org. Since I've barely started, I think that this is a stupid time to sit back and reflect on what I've done so far. But I'm doing it anyway."

[Planet Drupal]