Posted by Peter Thomas
on March 19, 2009
As we all know, Amazon Web Services is discontinuing the Alexa Site Thumbnail service. The service has been providing developers with programmatic access to thumbnail images for the pages of web sites that were stored in Alexa’s index. New subscriptions are no longer being accepted, and existing subscribers will only have operational access until June 12, 2009.
The best alternative out there is PageGlimpse. It provides an easy to use API, a Wordpress plugin, .NET library and many other tools and features for FREE.
Welcome!
Posted by Marcio Castilho
on January 15, 2009
TweeTube just released! It is the easiest way to share videos on Twitter. You can share your favorite videos quickly with short URLs. We know how important that is. One of the most coolest features is that it lets you track the visits and comments for the videos you share.
You don’t need an account with them. Just use your Twitter credentials. The passwords are kept encrypted in the database for a short period of time.
The easiest way to use the service is to use the provided Bookmarklet. Just drag and drop it to your bookmarks bar. It is that easy! (Note: If you’re using IE8 though, because of the new security (you know, allow/deny) you’ll need to right click on the link, select “Add to favorites” and “allow” when prompted). After that, when you’re watching a video on YouTube, just click the bookmarklet and share the video.
Sharing a video is really simple. Just press the “Share” button.
For now, you can only share YouTube videos, but in the near future, more video providers will be supported. Happy TweeTube’ing!
Update: Tweetube was brought you by the same developers of PageGlimpse.
Posted by Peter Thomas
on December 15, 2008
Wheee!! We’ve been chosen this week’s cloud application. Check it out here: http://www.azurejournal.com/2008/12/weekly-cloud-application-pageglimpse/. Don’t forget to VOTE for us!.
Posted by Peter Thomas
on December 15, 2008
One of the most requested feature for PageGlimpse was a way to check whether PageGlimpse already has a thumbnail for a specific URL. This feature is mostly used in applications that want to poll until a thumbnail exists, before displaying it.
The feature was released today. Like all PageGlimpse APIs, this new feature is straight forward:
http://images.pageglimpse.com/v1/thumbnails/exists?url=http://www.techcrunch.com/&size=large&devkey=1234567890
The server will return a JSON string (which you can use in your javascript code) indicating whether the request was successful or not (the thumbnail exists or not)
| 200 |
["result", "yes"] |
PageGlimpse has a thumbnail for the requested url. |
| 404 |
["result", "no"] |
PageGlimpse does not have a thumbnail for the requested url. |
More information here: http://www.pageglimpse.com/features/api
Posted by Peter Thomas
on November 10, 2008
AzureJournal is providing “… the RSS feed you need to subscribe to in order to get the latest news about Windows azure: http://feedproxy.google.com/WindowsAzure. It is using many sources including yahoo, google, MS live news search, blog search (using google), technorati, icerokcet and many more, including Twitter. Check it out!”
We did check it out and is AWESOME!
Posted by Peter Thomas
on November 03, 2008
As you may know, Microsoft released their newest Operating System in the Cloud: Windows Azure. Here at PageGlimpse we’re using “the cloud” mainly Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, SQS). We’re excited though about the new offerings from Microsoft, so here’s a place where you can find everything you need to know about the new Windows Azure: http://www.azurejournal.com.
Posted by Marcio Castilho
on October 01, 2008
Finally! why did it take so long?? “We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.” http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/
