links for 2010-09-01

Squarespace takes funding according to Gigaom

Via GigaomSquarespace Gets $38M to Compete With WordPress and Six Apart: Squarespace, a hosted content service that competes with companies such as WordPress (see disclosure below) has closed a $38-million financing round from two leading technology VCs — Accel Partners and Index Ventures — that will give the seven-year-old company a significant warchest and some substantial backing in the battle for digital-publishing market share.

Best quote:

…the idea that a major media entity can be published using the same tools that bloggers use (the site is based on Moveable Type from Six Apart), and that blog software can be a competitor for the expensive and time-consuming content-management systems that are used by many traditional media outlets — some of which use WordPress and other tools to publish their blogs, but few of which have moved to using such tools for their entire websites.

Wishing them success. I’ve never used the tool but its users are enthusiastic.

links for 2010-06-17

links for 2010-03-30

  • Web services, also known as APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), are components used to access your data and services. Mashery provides a Software as a Service (SaaS) infrastructure for supporting a company's API through management, monitoring, access control, and monetization. We provide all of the infrastructure you need to help your company control who has programmatic access to your data, and to put a business model in place that supports your revenue goals.
  • The Yahoo! Query Language is an expressive SQL-like language that lets you query, filter, and join data across Web services. With YQL, apps run faster with fewer lines of code and a smaller network footprint.

links for 2010-03-26

  • In version 3.0 the developers of WordPress introduce the custom post types. I’m not sure whether it’ll be solely built into the API or also displayed as a GUI somewhere in the settings, but it doesn’t require too much coding skills to add a couple via your functions.php or a perhaps a plugin.

links for 2010-03-25

  • With Scalr, your website and web application can grow to millions of users with little work. Scalr will provision new servers on-the-fly to handle spikes in demand, and decommission them when no longer needed to lower cost. It will scale your database, application servers, and load balancers so you never have to. The end result? With Scalr, you'll never need an $8000/month IT person – just a $99/month subscription to scalr.net