Wow and Flutter

I recently integrated Ferret into Lingr, and have written a blog post over at the Lingr blog detailing our experience. If you're interested, check it out.

I'll be attending ETech. next week, along with most of the Lingr team. I'll also be leading an informal Birds of a Feather evening session on comet.

If you're going to be in San Diego next week, let me know– I would love to meet you.

The response of the developer community to our new Lingr API has been amazing. Practically every day, I'm astounded by the innovative and totally unexpected ways that people use it.

One thing that I did expect, however, was that someone would write a Javascript client to the API, and, behold, this guy has done it.

This means that you can, for example, create a chatroom for your blog users and embed that chatroom directly into your blog! Also, because it uses the Lingr backend, the chat is live between the embedded mini-chatroom and the corresponding room on lingr.com. So you can embed the chatroom right in context, but take advantage of Lingr's ability to draw visitors.

For those of you who don't read Japanese, the meat of the matter is here.

Today we released a full API to Lingr, along a killer sample application and open-source toolkits to get you started building your own Lingr-powered applications. Check it out!

I'll be attending the Cometd Developer Day this afternoon. Looking forward to meeting other comet developers and seeing if cometd can have a place in Lingr.

Later today, we'll be rolling out an update to Lingr that includes, among other things, support for MicroID. MicroID is a way to claim ownership of your assets on the web- in particular, with Lingr, every chatroom now includes a MicroID meta tag that declares the room to belong to the email address of the Lingr user who created it.

Lingr's use of MicroID continues our push to support emerging metadata standards, as in our existing support for the rel-nofollow and rel-tag microformats.

Softies on Rails, a Rails blog evangelizing to .NET developers, has posted an interview they did with us last week. If you're interested in some insight into how Lingr was born, check it out!

Emily Chang over at eHub has posted an interview with my partner Kenn Ejima about Lingr. Check it out!