“The Exceptional Performance team has identified a number of best practices for making web pages fast. The list includes 35 best practices divided into 7 categories.”

Web Service Authentication APIs

For a project I’m working on, I’ve been looking at a lot of web service authentication/verification APIs lately. I thought folks might be interested in the results. Here are the methods available for a variety of web services/applications online, with links to their appropriate docs:

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Instant Messenger Status Check

http://www.imstatuscheck.com/

Instant Messenger Status Check

Image-based presence indicators for AIM, MySpace, GTalk, MSN, Skype, Yahoo, ICQ.

Yahoo! GeoPlanet Data

http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/data/

Yahoo! GeoPlanet Data

Extensive geo data for place names and significant locations around the world. Data files provided by Yahoo with a Creative Commons license

YDN Design Pattern Library

http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/everything.html

YDN Design Pattern Library

“A pattern describes an optimal solution to a common problem within a specific context.”

Rapleaf: Reputation Lookup and Email Search

http://www.rapleaf.com/apidoc/v2/abook

Rapleaf: Reputation Lookup and Email Search

“The Address Book Reader returns the names and email addresses of the contacts in a webmail address book.” Simple API for loading people’s address books and then using that for invites etc.

Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/

Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS

The foundational YUI Grids CSS offers four preset page widths, six preset templates, and the ability to stack and nest subdivided regions of two, three, or four columns.