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Sessmic API test server is running

We are running a test server for the latest API and Metadat changes.
If you are a Seesmic API consumer you should take adavantage of this sneak-peek
Please see the SeesmicAPI Google Group for more details.

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Seesmic dev team news!

It’s been a crazy month at Seesmic and I’ve personally have been so busy that I’ve completely forgotten to update the blog - oops! Two big events have happened, well maybe three but I can save that one for another post.
Firstly, my colleague and friend from OSAF, Matthew Eernisse, started work as a Seesmic […]

Seesmic API blog post by fred2baro

Fred2baro has posted a review/overview (in French) of his impressions on the Seesmic API.
Les api sont tapis mais vous mettent au tapis avec Seesmic -api..

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New features are live

Today Loic demoed Seesmic at DEMO 08 today and one of the main features that was shown was the new Thread feature. Basically on any thumbnail you will see a count that shows how many replies have been made to the thread that the thumbnail is a part of.
The amount of posting was crazy […]

SeesmicAIR crosses the event horizon

Looks like Critter has figured out the fu required to record a Seesmic Post within his SeesmicAir app!
Good job!

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change to the events bot

Johann requested I add to the events bot the ability to deliver RSS entries in the XMPP data payload, so I made some changes and added a new command.
The new command is “set” and right now it only has a single sub-command “payload”. Sending the command “set payload rss” will tell the bot that […]

RSS Feed changes

It turns out that some recent changes to the RSS feed made it no longer validate.
Looking at the validation errors I made some changes.

channel item <generated> was changed to <pubDate>
item <title> changed so it’s ascii encoded with all non-ascii items shown as xml charref’s
item <author> changed to <media:credit>
added <media:content> item for the video itself

Let me […]

API Changes - recent ones at least

Yesterday the Seesmic team rolled out the latest server side code, yea! But they set it up to be at app2.seesmic.com instead of app.seesmic.com
This broke the Jabber bot and both Kosso’s and Critter’s apps - all of which recovered quickly.
The good thing is that this did help with some of the load issues […]

Small change to the Atom feeds

While working on some new code in the EventBot (to support some UI changes coming) I made a change to the Atom entry for both the Jabber message payload and also the feeds.
They now include the <source /> element and within that you will find a <generator> and if the Seesmic post is a reply, […]

Atom/RSS feed outage

Earlier today the back-end server that lets the various parts of the Seesmic infrastructure was down and as a result the service that updates the Atom and RSS feeds did not receive any updates.
I need to figure out a way to back-fill the database that drives the feed generation in case this happens again.

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