APIs Crawl Bank Accounts with the Ghost of Wesabe The personal finance startup Wesabe may be dead, but its code lives on. Former team member Brian Donovan recently open sourced the framework used to connect with bank websites and download statements in a machine-readable form. This might not sound impressive, but with thousands of banks just in the U.S., all with different website setups, entire… Hack Pete Warden View comments
News Amazon Web Services Moves into New Territory...Again Amazon Web Services is on an aggressive development cycle. Its latest announcement comes today with what it calls AWS CloudFormation, a service that Amazon's Jeff Barr describes in a manner that makes it feel quite similar to cloud management technologies such as Puppet and Chef. Alex Williams View comments
Blogging What 10 Years of Blogging Has Taught Heather Armstrong "What the last 10 years has taught me, the main lesson, is to first give someone the benefit of the doubt." Heather Armstrong is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her trailblazing blog Dooce this week and there aren't very many people who can claim that kind of longevity online. It's a new media world and Armstrong is on the short list of… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
News Wikipedia's Goal: 1 Billion Monthly Visitors by 2015 The Wikimedia Foundation, the parent organization of Wikipedia and nearly a dozen other wiki-based projects, announced its five-year strategic plan today. The plan is the product of a collaborative effort that began in 2009 and involved more than 1,000 participants from around the world. In it, the organization lays out a number of goals it hopes… Mike Melanson View comments
E-Books This Library E-Book Will Self-Destruct After 26 Check Outs There's a certain amount of wear-and-tear on library books. You can only check out Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince so many times, for example, before a well-loved book becomes a little too well-loved for circulation. Librarians are masters at maintaining books - repairing spines, patching torn pages, protecting covers, keeping books… Audrey Watters View comments