Adam Kalsey

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18 items tagged with webservices

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OAuth (October 10, 2007) How to give sites permission to use your web apps, without giving them permission to abuse them.

A whole new ballgame (March 3, 2006) Simplelinks hits on baseball, REST that ain't, and massive PHP Flickr-style.

Versioning REST (February 2, 2006) Ideas on how to version a REST interface and examples of this implementation in Tagyu.

Tagyu API update (February 2, 2006) Tagyu's API now suggests categories as well as tags.

Tagyu API ideas (October 10, 2005) Some mashups you could create with the Tagyu API and some other web services APIs.

Introducing Tagyu (October 10, 2005) Tagyu will suggest tags and keywords for you. Just tell it what you're saying and it will tell you how to tag it.

XHTML Services? (January 1, 2004) Jon Udell says that intranets should abandon Web services like SOAP and REST in favor of screen scraping XHTML. Hogwash.

New MTAmazon forthcoming (May 5, 2003) A new version of MTAmazon will have some great new features. Filter BrowseNode and wishlist searches by keywords, search for items by price, and manage your customer's Amazon shopping cart.

Sorting Amazon (October 10, 2002) Amazon's backend is showing and they are revealing some interesting flaws in their system.

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Jul 23: Most teams struggle with prioritization because they're trying to optimize for everything at once. The real problem isn't having too many options—it's not having a clear strategy to choose between them. Without strategy, every decision feels equally important. With strategy, most decisions become obvious.
Behind schedule
Jul 21: Your team is 6 weeks late and still missing features. The solution isn't working harder—it's accepting that your deadlines were fake all along. Ship what you have. Cut ruthlessly. Stop letting "one more day" turn into one more month.
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Jun 21: AI and megafunds are about to kill the traditional venture model, forcing smaller VCs to stop hunting for hidden gems and start rolling up their sleeves to fix broken companies instead.
Should individual people have OKRs?
May 14: A good OKR describes and measures an outcome, but it can be challenging to create an outcome-focused OKR for an individual.
10 OKR traps and how to avoid them
May 8: I’ve helped lots of teams implement OKRs or fix a broken OKR process. Here are the 10 most common problems I see, and what to do instead.
AI is Smart, But Wisdom Requires Judgement
May 3: AI can process data at lightning speed, but wisdom comes from human judgment—picking the best imperfect option when facts alone don’t point the way.
Decoding Product Leadership Titles
Mar 18: Not all product leadership titles mean what they sound like. ‘Head of Product’ can mean anything from a senior PM to a true VP. Here’s how to tell the difference.

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