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MOO API hacks at BarCampLondon5 – and a winner
At BarCampLondon5, I gave a session on the beta MOO API. The slides are here. We also held a little competition – the best API hack over the weekend would win a Flip Video Ultra
The entries were as follows:
They’re all a little rough and ready (knocked together in hours, in
true barcamp spirit), but they do demonstrate the range of things one
can do quite nicely.
- Make MOO postcards via MMS, with a nice little shortcode authentication method too.
by Sam Machin.
- Make MOO Postcards from Flickr Sunsets
by Nathan O’Hanlon
- Make MOO minicards from Amazon book covers.
by Simon Willison
- Generate minicards with your Wii codes on them for sharing
by Dominic Hodgson (and (unnamed) girlfriend)
- Ten Word Review Moo cards
which takes reviews from , The Ten Word Review and renders them into cards.
by Neil Crosby
and the winner is…
It was tricky. I like them all, and all demonstrate API superpowers in different ways, but the grand prize goes to…
Well done, Neil.
I think we’ll be having some more competitions soon. I enjoyed that. Thanks to all who entered.
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