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I have had the first blog post for API Evangelist from September of 2010 up for the last week pondering what my headspace was like in that moment, as well as what has changed. I would say the techn...
I thought the visualization of the search and news traffic for Application Programming Interface (API) at Google Trends was interesting enough to share. You have to ask yourself: What 2011 will lo...
Here is the coverage for the week from API Evangelist. Evernote API Review Android and IOS SDKs for Amazon Web Services Glue API Review Foursquare API Version 2.0 Infochimps API Review ...
Google Maps API provides mapping, satellite and other geographical data. The system allows overlaying of dynamic data on top of existing maps and photos. The Google Maps API provides a RESTful int...
Any building block you are using to deliver your API to developers, such as blog or forum should have metrics attached to it. You should be collecting any data you can on activity in your API commu...
Infochimps provides API access to large data sets including Twitter and census data. Its system also provides business intelligence on much of this data, including a Twitter influence ranking. The...
Foursquare released version 2.0 of its API today, after a year of development on the update. kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com The API provides the following upgrades: OAuth 2.0 Authentica...
The Glue API provides integration with the objects, people, and interactions available on the entertainment social network GetGlue. The Glue API delivers a RESTful API using OAuth for authenticati...
Evernote is a text, voice and image note-taking software. A software as a service , Evernote provides web-based, desktop and mobile clients for accessing the service. The Evernote API is delivered...
Amazon Web Services has launched mobile software development kits (SDK) for Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS operating systems (iPhones, iPads, and the iPod Touch). The AWS SDK for Android and the...
Contests are becoming a popular way for API community managers to bring attention to their APIs. Giving away cash and prizes is a quick way to get developers understanding your API and to get press...
As the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API Evangelist, I get asked why I would be an evangelist for technology in a dying industry. Print and Publishing. My primary argument is: Through new technology s...
I spend a lot of time thinking about new ways to print as the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API Evangelist. During this time I see a common pattern; that print can create more meaningful, physical aspe...
Many APIs deliver the same type of data like city, country or other factual data. Other APIs deliver similar functionality like geo-location and currency conversions. The opportunity to develop Un...
It is not always easy to get up and running using a new API. As a developer you face all kinds of challenges before integration, like finding and making sense of documentation and authentication an...
Deltacloud provides aggregated access to multiple cloud computing platforms in a single web service. Deltacloud currently supports seven major cloud computing platforms including Rackspace and Amaz...
Peter Gruenbaum of SDK Bridge shared an article in the company’s November newsletter that resonated with some of the work I’ve been doing recently – creating API documentation for the Mimeo Connect...
I’m going through the my list of existing and potential self-publishing and print-on-demand applications. First on my list is the fotobooks the Facebook social print application. Its a pretty stra...
I have launched a new site called API Evangelist. I have been operating in stealth mode because I’m not 100% done with all the API Ecosystem building block pages. I’ve had a couple people ask if I’...
Applications are being built around APIs at an ever-increasing pace. Developers put a lot of trust in these service providers, and we depend on them to provide a certain quality of service. As a d...
I attended Mashery’s Business of APIs Conference in San Francisco on Thursday. The event was kicked off with a complete history of APIs from Oren Michels the CEO of Mashery. Michels took us from p...
Google released some updates to its API ecosystem the other day with a new release of Google Custom Search API. Google also rewrote a bunch of API documentation and more importantly released an API...
Do you have a cool application built on top of your API? (Hopefully you do!) I’m sure there are some amazing developers who have worked hard on developing applications that make use of your API. T...
Amazon S3 is infrastructure service that provides virtualized storage on demand with pay as you go pricing. Amazon S3 began as a web service and later developed a web-based interface to manage serv...
USA Today is a major newspaper and online media outlet. It provides wide coverage in the following categories News, Travel, Money, Sports, Life, Tech, and Weather. USA Today offers a RESTful API d...
I am in New York City this week kicking off my new career as the API Evangelist for Mimeo Connect. Mimeo Conneckinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.comtp://www.mimeo.com/” target=”_blank”>Mimeo Pr...
Amazon EC2 is infrastructure service that provides virtualized servers on-demand with pay-as-you-go pricing. Amazon EC2 began as a web service and later developed a web-based interface to manage se...
Holding an API contest is a great way to spur innovation around your API and its community. bit.ly is a popular URL shortening service that offers an API as part of its core software-as-a-service....
LinkedIn has released an API labs to showcase various internal projects using the LinkedIn API. LinkedIn Labs hosts a small set of projects and experimental features built by the employees of Link...
If you provide an API, one of the things you will want to avoid is having someone’s blog post condemning your company for not caring about developers hit the front page of Hacker News. Because even...
Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven question-and-answer (Q&A) site that allows users to both submit questions to be answered and answer questions asked by other users. The site gives members t...
Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice calls over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both land-line and mobile phones can ...
PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. PayPal serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and mo...
Google Docs is a free, Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, form, and data storage service from Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in re...
Google Apps recently began supporting OAuth authorization when connecting to the Google Apps API. OAuth will make integration with the Google Apps platform much more secure by not requiring admini...
Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering Web bookmarks. Delicious has a RESTful API, with a HTTP-Auth authentication. Using the API, you can read and wri...
Digg is a social news site that allows users to submit and vote up or down news stories published by others. Digg offers a RESTful API, with oAuth authentication. The API gives access to just abou...
Mashery is an API management service provider that offers an API as a Software as a Service (SaaS). You can leverage Mashery’s platform to get an API planned, deployed, and into operation quickly. ...
We share the top API Industry News with you throughout the week in our real-time API Industry RSS Feed. Here are the top stories from the week: Foursquare Outage a Chance to Test for Errors ...
Apigee is another player in the API management service provider space. Apigee is similar to 3Scale in helping businesses plan, deploy and manage their API. Apigee provides resources to help you un...
3Scale provides plug-and-play as well as enterprise level API management services. 3Scale is similar to 3Scale connect is a starter platform with a freemium model for delivering your API. You can d...
There are a lot of things I weigh when deciding to write about a company: is the product interesting, is the technology innovative, is the company’s story compelling. Some days, it’s “news” when a ...
The ability to explain your API to developers and potential developers critical to the success of your API. While it’s important to be able to explain to potential business partners and customers a...
Scribd is a social publishing site, where people can upload and share their documents. The Scribd API has the following building blocks:kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com * API Overview S...
Salesforce is gearing up for the upcoming release of their REST API on October 26, with a REST API Developer Preview Webinar. The release of the a RESTful API for the developerforce platform is a...
Online storage and collaboration tool OpenBox Developer, Box.net offers a robust API for file management, as well as an area for those working with the API. The developer area offers the following...
Several years ago, Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake coined the phrase “Biz Dev 2.0” in a blog post explaining how several small companies had approached FLickr wanting to provide services that the p...
One of the keys to YouTube’s success as a video sharing platform is its successful API that allows developers and site owners to embed, share and distribute YouTube content across the Intertubes. ...
Change happens. With technology, change seems to be accelerating, or at least the waves of change seem to come more frequently. I feel I’ve developed a certain rhythm fkinlane-productions2.s3.amaz...
As a journalist, I get a lot of pitches from startups trying to convince me to write about their product or service. And I also attend a lot of pitch events, where entrepreneurs try to convince a p...
The Flickr API for the online photo and video sharing service provides a way for new tools to be built and for Flickr content to be uploaded or shared. Flickr offers a solid API with very tradition...
Application Programming Interfaces (API) are a driving the Internet and our economy. They drive our online experience: Developers rely on API for key data and functionality in their application...
