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Mike Papageorge gives an in-depth and step-by-step tutorial on how to use Yahoo!’s REST API. His article gives even the novice an opportunity to play with an enormous amount of data that Yahoo! provides through their API.

If you’ve ever wanted to experiment with some of the more popular APIs that are being made available, this tutorial will give you a really great jump into learning how to do it properly. I recommend watching FiftyFourEleven for the ongoing API series that Mike is putting together.

How do you go about promoting your site, beyond joining a Network such as 9rules? Well listen to Liz and she will show you some things you can do and you will be surprised at how simple it can be to promote your site. With more and more sites popping up everyday it’s essential to know every advantage you can get to get a leg up on the competition.

When everyday things occur, we often know why. A headache at the end of the day, for me, usually means I forgot to have a few cups of coffee in the morning.

Cognitive Daily has a great article on Learning to understand cause and effect. Looking at different situations from the point of view of a child and how we humans associate probability with causality.

This article merely scratches the surface of the quality content available at Cognitive Daily, we recommend going through their archives when you get the time.

To me, this seems like the perfect discussion to have with the Merovingian (if you do not know who this is, you are probably better off than me).

When you run a Network of over 85 sites it gets very, very tough to play favorites, but I must confess that of all the members, girlspoke might be my favorite because it is continuously updated and continuously funny. The women over there have put together a wonderful site that gives you a Sex in the City feel applied to blogging and it doesn’t stop with the latest entry by Meme.

Sure it’s just a poll, but it gives you an idea of what to expect from the site because the answers are the ones you would never expect to see in a Future Husband poll. Warning: The site contains strong language because it is geared towards adults and isn’t meant to be “professional” so to speak. It’s meant to be real and raw and that’s exactly what it is.

The Ubergeeks has a great article up about the ergonomics behind user updates. Colin thinks users should really be told what an update entails before being forced to download it — because what if the user doesn’t want to update? Like when iTunes dropped full network sharing support for streams, many users didn’t realize this “feature” before they updated and a full-scale user support war ensued. Bottom line: tell users what’s going to happen before they update.