Today in APIs: Nike Launches the Nike+ Developer Portal, Corporate Hackathons and Exploitation, and 11 New APIs
blog.programmableweb.com
on 01/23/2013
Excerpt: Nike launches the Nike+ Developer Portal. The thin line between corporate hackathons and exploitation. Plus: Twitter libraries that support the latest version, Facebook cuts off access to Voxer over competition concerns, and 11 new APIs. Nick Summers reports in TNW that Nike has launched its Nike+ Developer portal ahead of it’s March startup accelerator. The event is organized around Techstars to identify developers who will create products and services for athletes using Nike+. As Summers reports, Nike stands out,
Applications for the Nike+ Accelerator are open until February 3.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Athletics, Googlereader, Ifttt, Nike, ProgrammableWeb, Sports
Path and Nike FuelBand Pair Up, Flaunting the Benefits of a Private API
allthingsd.com
on 06/29/2012
Excerpt: Facebook and Twitter rose to prominence in part because they played so nicely with others. Yes, the sites were great products first. But they became even better platforms, opening their application programming interfaces to let third-party developers integrate their services. And as the platform era matured, open APIs practically became en vogue. But there is still value in being exclusive. Path, for instance, is perhaps a prime example of this. It has an API, though it currently only has a single announced partner: Nike. On Friday, the company announced a small update in the partnership, adding integration between Nike’s FuelBand fitness tracking bracelet and the private social network.... read the full post.
Tags: Nike, Path, Private APIs
Excerpt: Facebook and Twitter rose to prominence in part because they played so nicely with others. Yes, the sites were great products first. But they became even better platforms, opening their application programming interfaces to let third-party developers integrate their services. And as the platform era matured, open APIs practically became en vogue. But there is still value in being exclusive. Path, for instance, is perhaps a prime example of this. It has an API, though it currently only has a single announced partner: Nike. On Friday, the company announced a small update in the partnership, adding integration between Nike’s FuelBand fitness tracking bracelet and the private social network.... read the full post.
Tags: Nike, Path, Private APIs
