We interrupt this coverage of Widget Summit for news about code-search site Krugle announcing a deal that will help software developers more easily find code within the Amazon Web Services developer network. 
I was just sitting here in the lobby of the Palace Hotel, where the Web 2.0 Summit is getting underway, killing some time before I head for SFO, when the news popped up. Steve Larsen, Krugle’s CEO, just told me by email that his company’s code search tools are now "in front of one-third of the world’s 14 million developers." That’s big, dude. Congratulations.
Tag: code search
This just in…news on Valentine’s Day about a company I follow named Krugle, of code-search fame. Seems they’ve chosen this hallowed day to announce they’ve been tapped to supply search functionality for the Yahoo! Developer Network. This is a centralized resource that offers open APIs and Web Services to make it easy for developers to extend and build on Yahoo!’s products and services.
The Yahoo! Developer Network hosts the publicly-available code and documentation for Yahoo!-owned properties, and provides tutorials, code samples, and other resources for developers. With this partnership, developers can now take advantage of Krugle’s code search engine and interface when they’re working with Yahoo! APIs and data — specifically, to find, save, and share code written in six languages: ActionScript, JavaScript, .NET, PHP, Python, and Ruby.
A kewl thing about Krugle is it also provides users with contextual information as they browse the code, such as associated documentation and dependencies, bug reports, commentary, and user-tagged code and search results, which they can then easily share with their colleagues.
“One of the reasons for Yahoo!’s success has been the company’s strong belief in opening up its products for third-party developers,” according to my old buddy Steve Larsen, who’s the CEO of Krugle, based in Menlo Park, CA. 
“By publishing open APIs and helpful documentation, they create an active and engaged community and encourage developers to create applications which utilize Yahoo!’s technology in new and innovative ways. With this partnership, Krugle will make it easier than ever to leverage the true potential of Yahoo!’s open APIs and Web Services.”
To check out Krugle code search on the Yahoo! Developer Network, just go to http://developer.yahoo.com.
One other thing I like about Krugle: not only the management, but the investors and advisors behind this outfit are pretty darn awesome, too.
Some people blog for themselves, some people blog for companies. Chris Locke does both — the latter of late for Krugle Inc., Menlo Park, CA, a promising new code-search site. The man is multi-talented. [For those who don’t recognize the name, think book titles Cluetrain Manifesto and Gonzo Marketing, not to speak of the crazy web site EGR…and other antics too numerous to mention.] Suffice it to say, he knows how to have fun, tweak the righteous, and, well, how does one describe what Chris (aka Rageboy) does?
Anyway, a couple hours ago, I got an email from my old buddy Steve Larsen, CEO of Krugle, asking me and some of his blogger friends to basically check out this unauthorized post, and “Should I fire him?” I LOLed bigtime! The mad blogmeister was at it again. Loose in Silicon Valley, on an escape from his home base in Boulder, meeting with Steve’s new VP of marketing, and posting about his favorite subject: himself. But I have to give him a pass (and told Steve so) for wanting to break out a bit from his blog-for-hire gig, to “exercise (his) urge to cast aside (his) low-profile ways.” Hah! And do post a comment for Chris…he loves hearing from his fans. Best of all, he can also take anything any unsuspecting first-timer non-fan can dish at him. It only makes him more playful…and inclined to write more raging, inspired prose.
Meantime, what’s the latest with Krugle? Well, most significantly, they raised a $6.1M Series B, on the strength of their success earlier this year, including winning a “Demo God” award at the DEMO2006 event I covered in Feburary, and subsequently signing up 35,000 developers for their new service. Steve, by the way, is yet another former Minnesotan who found opportunity (and venture money) elsewhere. Someday, I’ll get him back here to talk about his experiences.
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