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RDF is worth learning for a different reason — the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it. That experience will make you a better format and data API designer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use RDF itself a lot. (You can get some beginning experience with RDF fairly easily by writing and modifying simple files like FOAF and DOAP for social networks and software projects, or RDFa extensions for XHTML.)

The Geolocation API defines a high-level interface to location information associated with the hosting device, such as latitude and longitude.

future or web mashups are geo localized

oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly.

pretty useful.

The Geolocation module enables a web application to obtain a user's geographical position.

how evil is this?

whoisi GETful interface.

We are happy to announce that the Google Contacts Data API now supports OAuth. This is our first step towards OAuth enabling all Google Data APIs.

that is either great or scary.

Firefox 3 implements a global Microformats object that provides access to microformats. This object and its API make finding and reading microformats easy to do.

upcoming API in Firefox 3 for Microformats

The OAuth protocol enables websites or applications (Consumers) to access Protected Resources from a web service (Service Provider) via an API, without requiring Users to disclose their Service Provider credentials to the Consumers.

It's about time.

An open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.

an OpenID for APIs, need some investigations