Neptune’s Lab

As I research the API and RSS Feed capabilities of various Web 2.0 services I will be continuously updating this matrix. Check this article often for updates.

				API	Feeds
Social Network
	(www)(wiki)		Facebook	yes
	(www)(wiki)		MySpace		blog
	(www)(wiki)		Bebo
	(www)(wiki)		Hi5
	(www)(wiki)		Orkut
Media Sharing
	(www)(wiki)		YouTube	yes	yes
	(www)(wiki)		Flickr	yes *	yes
	(www)(wiki)		Picasa	yes	yes
	(www)(wiki)		Veoh	yes
	(www)(wiki)		Uber
Bookmarking
	(www)(wiki)		del.icio.us	yes	yes
	(www)(wiki)		Simpy	yes	yes
	(www)(wiki)		StumbleUpon
Blogging
	(www)(wiki)		Blogger	yes
	(www)(wiki)		LiveJournal	yes
	(www)(wiki)		Technorati	yes
	(www)(wiki)		Twitter	yes
News
	(www)(wiki)		Digg	yes
Music
	(www)(wiki)		last.fm	yes	yes
Community Aggregarors	(www)(wiki)		Mashable

* Requires agreement for commercial use.

Neptune now has his very own flickr account. flickr is a yaoo company, although supposedly less evil than Google also less developer friendly. I have to first say that they do have an API and I have yet to look at it, however the API requires approval for use in commercial applications. I am guessing that this is why we don’t see flickr as a big name in the mashup world yet. Anyway, Neptune started his flickr account of with some photos from his trip to Microsoft Island on SL.

Also, don’t forget to check out Neptune’s cool flickr badge on the sidebar, is any blog complete without one?

The photo above is hosted from the flickr account. flickr states that I must make the photo link back to them. I think it would be much cooler if they gave me a choice between linking it back to them or watermarking it, much like YouTube.