Mashup APIs/Blogging
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Akismet
http://akismet.com/development/api/
Akismet is basically a big machine that sucks up all the data it possibly can, looks for patterns, and learns from its mistakes. Thus far it has been highly effective at stopping spam and adapting to new techniques and attempts to evade it, and time will tell how it stands up. I've tried to keep the API interaction as simple as possible. To interact fully with the Akismet API your program really should be putting data back into the system as well as just taking it out. If it is at all possible within the framework of your application you should have a way for your users to submit missed spam and false positives, otherwise Akismet will never learn from its mistakes.

Feedburner
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/developers
FeedBurner offers developers an established (and growing!) library of web services for interacting with our feed management and awareness-generating capabilities. Using the features this library provides, anyone with a FeedBurner account may perform some of the most common actions available on our service programmatically. Outside applications and content management services, including popular blogging platforms, are already making use of this application programming interface (API) to help publishers promote feed stats in new and interesting ways. With the addition of the Feed Management API, publishers can now create and manipulate their feeds' settings as well.

Pageflakes
http://www.pageflakes.com/Community/Developers/Documentation.aspx
Use your favorite designer or IDE like Microsoft Visual Studio/.NET, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Zend Studio,etc. You can design the UI of the flake using a designer/IDE. You do not need to use Javascript to build a DOM. You can make simple flakes without following Pageflakes' framework. You can utilize Pageflakes' framework to make advanced flakes. You can call methods of Pageflakes and harness the full power of the whole engine. You can test your flakes locally by running from the IDE. When the flake works nicely, put it on Pageflakes. Flakes can be regular HTML pages, although we strongly recommend using XHTML. You do not need to create any XML file to describe your flake. You can use server side scripts like PHP, JSP and ASP.NET to get and render UI besides client side scripts.

Technorati
http://developers.technorati.com/wiki
Build Technorati functionality into your application using Technorati's APIs.
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