The Raindrop API
When we announced raindrop, we had a CouchDB based data-model in place but no API for accessing the data – the front-end Javascript application was forced to issue CouchDB API requests (ie, query views and fetch documents by ID) directly. This presented us with a few problems…
via: http://mozillalabs.com/raindrop/2009/12/02/the-raindrop-api/