I found a site that gathers and summarizes information about APIs that are available for programming web services: http://ProgrammableWeb.com Jamal On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Jamal Mazrui wrote: > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:46:16 -0400 (EDT) > From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx> > To: ProgrammingBlind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Program-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Developing usability extensions for new media technologies > > This is to share some research I've recently done about support for social > networking media with various programming languages. I did web searches > and comparisons for Perl, Python, Ruby, and .NET. In my opinion, the best > libraries currently available suggest Python for Twitter.com and > FriendFeed.com, and either PHP or .NET languages (C#, VBNET, etc.) for > Facebook.com. > > The list of packages at python.org includes several related to Twitter. > For FriendFeed, I suggest > > friendfeed-api > http://code.google.com/p/friendfeed-api/ > > To search for .NET libraries on any topic, do a Google search like > site:codeplex.com facebook > > I found the best library at present to be > Facebook Developer Toolkit > http://www.codeplex.com/FacebookToolkit > > Let me encourage blind programmers to get involved in developing web or > desktop applications that help improve the usability of new media > technologies! > > Jamal > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq