Thursday, 22 March 2007

Dead.licious: Check Your Simpy Links

Do you ever wonder how many of your bookmarks (in Simpy or wherever you keep your bookmarks) are broken? How many are dead and are now useless? How many have a new location and now redirect to that new location?

While Simpy has this functionality almost since the beginning, it is currently (temporarily?) turned off. However, Vince Tagle (profile) comes to the rescue with his dead.alicious , an application whose main goal is checking your Simpy (or del.icio.us or ma.gnolia) links. Once broken links are found, you can fix them or simply remove them directly from the application. This application is free and runs on Apple's OSX.

Needless to say (so I'll say it anyway), dead.licious makes good use of Simpy's rich REST API. Good job, Vince, and thank you for dead.licious!

Posted by otis at 1:05 AM in News & Announcements
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Simpy Gets Zend_Service_Simpy

Just a couple of days ago, Matthew Turland (profile) announced his Zend_Service_Simpy - "a lightweight wrapper for the free REST API available for the Simpy social bookmarking service." Matt has been diligently working on this and made sure to be done with his Zend_Service_Simpy in time to get it included in the 0.9.0 release of the popular Zend Framework.

In very practical terms the creation of Zend_Service_Simpy means that if you are using PHP, and you want to talk to Simpy to either save or retrieve (or delete) some data (bookmarks, tags, notes...), you can use Zend Framework and Matt's Zend_Service_Simpy to do this, without having to hack your own PHP code for talking to Simpy -- Matt did all the hard work already in his Zend_Service_Simpy.

Thank you Matt!

Posted by otis at 12:44 AM in News & Announcements
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