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Here is a useful set of links:

http://neuroning.com/articles/2006/11/19/on-api-design-guide...

http://lcsd05.cs.tamu.edu/slides/keynote.pdf

It might be hard for us to try and help you out without knowing the project in detail, but follow the guidelines of that Google Keynote and you should be just fine.

thanks, great links. I guess something similar to the tumblr api, which I have been eyeing to model mine after, but with some differences.

Here's the podcast of a talk I (and many others) gave on APIs at South by Southwest. I think it provides some great guidelines.

http://blog.carlmercier.com/2008/06/17/podcast-building-deve...

very cool thank you

Read the O'Reilly RESTful Web Services book. It's a great explanation of why REST is good, and has a bunch of design patterns for the major pit falls.

You could also look at some of the tricks we use at Yahoo. One thing I think is important is the way we handle JSON (http://developer.yahoo.com/common/json.html).

Here's a video from Joshua Bloch http://www.infoq.com/presentations/effective-api-design

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