Thanks to the new Twitter API v1.1, it is now impossible to query the API using pure JavaScript code! So, in this quick tutorial will see how to use PHP to do Application-only authentication and forward the API result of the required resource to JavaScript, plus caching API results to prevent rate-limit errors.

Since Twitter only allows you to pull the last 3200 Tweets, people are using many online services to archive their Tweets. However, if you are interested to do it yourself in .Net, this tutorial would be a good kickstart.

Since jQuery v1.5, it became possible to set timeout on script and JSONP requests. Before that version, timeout was only applied to other types of AJAX requests. Timeout can be very useful as it is the only way to detect the failure of a JSONP request.

After doing my latest jQuery plugin for Google+, I would like to share a few tips to help you get started quickly with Google+ API.

After creating my latest jQuery plugin bit.ly Button to show off number of bit.ly clicks of your posts in a retweet button, I wrote this guest post on AEXT.net for developers who want to get their hands dirty with jQuery and bit.ly API.

Continue reading : Showing Off bit.ly Clicks of Your Posts With jQuery

Although there are many sites that describe how to get Delicious bookmaking count of some URL. I learned that you can get the save counts of multiple URL's in one request! And since I didn't see that mentioned anywhere -even on Delicious feeds API page- I thought I should do..

As of my ongoing preparation for the 1K tweet :) I was interested to see the 1000th tweet from some friends timeline. And when I didn't find an existing method, I thought I could write few jQuery lines to solve this..

This is a jQuery plugin to create a bar of real-time stream of information related to your post powered by Collecta search engine. Collecta monitors the streams of news sites, popular blogs and social media. So it can show you results as they happen. There are five content categories in Collecta - updates, stories, comments, photos, and videos.

Check these Demos..

With all the buzz lately about Twitter real-time search. Why don't you add a real-time tweets bar related to your posts from your twitter timeline or from anybody or even limit it by a geocode coordinates!

Check out These Demos..
Each one links to the demo page where you can see HTML & CSS & JS you need to use... CSS code is important but it is almost the same across those different samples, so I'm not going to focus on it here.

My first jQuery Plugin.. A 4KB jQuery plugin instead of a 118KB Google Blog Bar!!

I have shown before how to use Google Blog Bar as related posts widget, But when I actually tried to use it on my site, I didn't like all these JavaScript/CSS files that I've to include.
And since I already use jQuery -and who doesn't- I decided to rebuild the Blog Bar from scratch.

The Google AJAX Search API provides simple web objects that perform inline searches over a number of Google services (Web Search, Local Search, Video Search, Blog Search, News Search, Book Search, Image Search, and Patent Search).

It is an old news that: The API exposes a raw RESTful interface that returns JSON encoded results so it would be easily processed by most languages and runtimes.

On this post I gonna walk you through the code behind my new widget [A Smarter Related Posts widget for Blogger].

If you just want to install the widget on your blog, go to A Smarter Related Posts widget for Blogger.

To see the widget in action, Scroll down to the end of this post. also hover on links to see relevancy score.

Displaying a related posts is a smart way for keeping your site visitors around. and you may have seen other Related Posts Widgets out there.. but this one will be Easier and Smarter.

* Check Out New Edition
of this widget that is loaded with pretty new features like posts thumbnails and transition effects..

Check features list:

1. Easier : since All of the work is(has to be) done on the client side, You will not need to modify your template at all. widget will read post tags that blogger already display with each post.
2. Smarter : Cause This widget will list the top related 5(or more) posts sorted by relevancy!Top relevant posts are the posts that have more tags in common with the current post.
3. More Optimized: Will only use summary feeds instead of querying default feeds that return full contents!
4. This widget also can work as a recent posts widget when there is no tags to aggregate.
5. Can be also used to get related posts from another blogspot blog. And in that case you don't have to run it on a blogspot!
6. A fixed list of tags can be used to aggregate.
7. It can display loading text or icon until widget is loaded.
8. Related posts list can be styled based on relevancy!
9. You can specify either to load widget on document ready or on window load.
10. Widget will be attached to container specified or it will be placed where you made the JavaScript call.

To see the widget in action, Scroll down to the end of this post. also hover on links to see relevancy tip.