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I’m always fascinated by the patents that get filed related to APIs. Most just have an API that is part of the equation, but some of the patents are directly for an API process. It’s no secret tha...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com 2011 was an interesting year for APIs. I wasn’t as good as I wanted to be at covering all major API events, but I got some traction with some posts I didn’t ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com One of the most important fronts of API development is Government. All of us API and data guys have all been screaming for city, county, state and federal g...
I pulled a list of the 2023 APIs that were added to the ProgrammableWeb API directory in 2011. I took the description column and used Wordle to generate a tag cloud for 2011. I think tag cl...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I’m reading The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood right now. So far its a great read. Very thought provoking stuff. I just read this passage on how ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com As 2011 comes to an end, I’d like to take another look at what I learned about the API management service provider space in 2011. I started the year engaging...
Photo Credits I took a walk through what I am calling the locations and places API landscape today. Most of these APIs I’m familiar with, but as the CityGrid API Evangelist, I’m getting an opportu...
Photo Credits I took a walk through what I am calling the locations and places API landscape today. Most of these APIs I’m familiar with, but as the CityGrid API Evangelist, I’m getting an opportu...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Facebook just announced that they are hosting Mobile Hacks in Boston and New York: Facebook Mobile Hack - New York on January 18th Facebook Mobile Hack...
ProgrammableWeb says Google has 94 APIs. I roughly count about 75 going through Google Code. I’m more concerned with public web APIs, and Google has Android, Chrome and other non-web APIs, so its h...
The FCC just launched a new platform that allows anyone to create, save and manage a customized page, built from widgets that pull content from FCC APIs, called MyFCC. At first glance MyFCC might...
Google just launched their new Google Affiliate Network API, which allows publishers and advertisers to automate various tasks related to the Google Affiliate Network. The Google Affiliate Network...
In my quest to fully understand the underlying principles of Representational State Transfer (REST), i’m re-reading Roy Thomas Fielding original dissertation, Architectural Styles and the Design of...
Google has made another step towards a more common API infrastructure in line with their API Discovery Service, API Explorer, and API Console by launching a single terms of service for all Google A...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I recently pulled the title, description and tags for all the APIs in the ProgramableWeb directory into a local MySQL database. At the time of this writing t...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Hackathons are growing into a popular way to spark innovation around hardware, data and APIs within developer and hacker communities. I count over 40 hackath...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com There was a post a couple weeks back in the New York Times Bits Blog called, “TaskRabbit Looks to Expand Cities and Offer an A.P.I.” Its a pretty straightfo...
There was a post in the Atlantic about Twitter’s advertising network called, No One’s Noticing Twitter’s New Ad Experiment, Which Is a Good Thing. Twitter is dropping what they call “promoted twee...
“Are API service providers relevant? Will they remain relevant?” Thats the question asked by Ben Kepes at this years Defrag Conference, while moderating a panel with Apigee’s Sam Ramji and Mashery...
Swagger is now Open API Definition Format (OADF) – **READ MORE** kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com There is a lot of discussion around the growth of APIs, and what the future will look like....
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Last March Google started support OAuth 2.0 for all of their APIs, and has been pushing all developers to switch to using OAuth 2.0 in all applications. Tod...
Last March Google started support OAuth 2.0 for all of their APIs, and has been pushing all developers to switch to using OAuth 2.0 in all applications. Today they announced the OAuth 2.0 Playgrou...
Pioneer Corporation just announced the availability of Zypr™, a new voice-powered API that provides a conversational, voice-control command API allowing developers to integrate Siri like functional...
I first reported on service oriented architecture (SOA) pioneer SOA Software’s entry into the API management arena back in June, today at the Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara, CA they are announ...
I first reported on service oriented architecture (SOA) pioneer SOA Software’s entry into the API management arena back in June, today at the Cloud Computing Expo in Santa Clara, CA they are announ...
I came across this on the White House blog today, “Request for Information on Public Access to Digital Data and Scientific Publications”. The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, signed b...
I wrote a piece yesterday on the FCC Open Commission recent proposal to require that television stations make their “public inspection file” available online called, “Opening Up Information is Not ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com According to PCMag.com, Verizon will publish an API that could allow consumers to “turbocharge” the network bandwidth on their smartphone, for a small fee. ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Tru.ly just launched an age verification API that authenticates the age of an online user based by cross-referencing user-submitted personal information with...
Tru.ly just launched an age verification API that authenticates the age of an online user based by cross-referencing user-submitted personal information with data points from Tru.ly verification pa...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com The FCC Open Commission recently proposed to require that television stations make their “public inspection file” available online. The public inspection fil...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I’m spending some time getting to know the Topsy Labs API today. Topsy Labs offers access to its proprietary metrics, social content, and influence data via ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I try to pay attention to how APIs are transforming as many industries as I can. I usually carve out at least an hour each day, to evalute a specific industr...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Twilio just made their first move into Europe by offering Twilio Voice service in the United Kingdom. The Twilio Voice API is now available in the UK, allow...
Last week Mashery rolled out a new on-premise version of their API management proxy. A solution meant to address a common concern of IT and API owners, that when using Mashery, all of their data a...
I have done a lot of research lately on the API service provider landscape. My goal is to understand who provides API delivery and management services, what they offer and help API owners understan...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com One of the ways I develop content for this site is by talking through my day to day experiences as an API Evangelist. I feel that talking through what I’m le...
Data.gov for me is like being a kid in a candy store. My experience with data goes back to High School when I got my first programming job right out of Mr. Smiths computer class. I built Cobol data...
Data.gov for me is like being a kid in a candy store. My experience with data goes back to High School when I got my first programming job right out of Mr. Smiths computer class. I built Cobol data...
As the number of APIs grow, the number of ways in which API owners control and incentivize their developers ecosystems evolves. APIs are your business development 2.0 platform, and it is up to you ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I just finished a four week roadshow that included three Startup Weekend EDU events – one in Seattle, one in San Francisco and one in Washington DC – as well...
I just finished a four week roadshow that included three Startup Weekend EDU events – one in Seattle, one in San Francisco and one in Washington DC – as well as two versions of the Business of APIs...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Last spring when I started writing for ProgrammableWeb, my first post was “Everything Should Be an API,” Says FCC. The story was about the new FCC web site, ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com At a recent presentation at the Business of API conference in San Francisco, Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson argued that two of the ways APIs can be successful in cou...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Someone asked me recently for some advice regarding what they should consider when constructing the URL and endpoints for their RESTful API. I thought I’d s...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I am getting ready for the Mashery, Business of APIs Conference in New York tomorrow. BAPI is in its 5th year of bringing together the big players in the AP...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com USA Today has announced that they now support the commercial access of articles, reviews and census data through their content APIs. Any developer can reque...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com NASA just launched a new Data API around its online archive of NASA data sets, that they launched back in August. The data.nasa.gov API provides a RESTful in...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I’m getting ready for the X.Commerce Innovate Developer Conference 2011, at Moscone Center in San Francisco this week. X.Commerce is the merging of Paypal, ...
I’m getting ready for the X.Commerce Innovate Developer Conference 2011, at Moscone Center in San Francisco this week. X.Commerce is the merging of Paypal, eBay and Magento’s developer ecosystems ...
I was introduced to the API service provider Socrata last week. Socrata has a government data platform that exceeds anything I’ve envisioned. In the past, I have said that every state should have a...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I had a great response to my Learning Management System (LMS) APIs round-up last week after Startup Weekend Seattle EDU. After posting I quickly updated with...
Factual has launch a new application gallery to showcase the diverse number of applications built using data provided by Factual. You can search for apps, browse by category, and filter by open so...
I just added four new API to my API stack series. I’m considering breaking the API Stack series into a separate feed, they kind of clutter the main feed. Anyways, the four new APIs are from 3Scale:...
3scale provides scalable API Infrastructure as a Service to control, manage and monetize the distribution of data, content or services for devices, mobile and web applications. The 3Scale Service ...
3Scale provides scalable API Infrastructure as a Service to control, manage and monetize the distribution of data, content or services for devices, mobile and web applications. The 3Scale Billing ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com 3scale provides scalable API Infrastructure as a Service to control, manage and monetize the distribution of data, content or services for devices, mobile an...
3scale provides scalable API Infrastructure as a Service to control, manage and monetize the distribution of data, content or services for devices, mobile and web applications. The 3Scale Account ...
I attended Mashery’s Business of APIs Conference in San Francisco last week. There were a lot of great API presentations, but I thought one really told a great story in-line with the focus of the e...
I attended Mashery’s Business of APIs Conference in San Francisco last week. There were a lot of great API presentations, but I thought one really told a great story in-line with the focus of the e...
At Mimeo we have demo Fridays where anyone can demo what they’re working on. For demo Fridays I tend to build prototypes showing different ways to integrate with the Mimeo Document Printing APIs. A...
I’m spending a lot of time lately evaluating the various API management service providers like 3Scale, Apigee, Mashery,and Mashape. One thing that I have to explain a lot to people about these API...
I’m spending a lot of time lately evaluating the various API management service providers like 3Scale, Apigee, Mashery,and Mashape. One thing that I have to explain a lot to people about these API...
A video of the fireside chat with Twitter Director of Platform Ryan Sarver at the Mashery Business of APIs conference in San Francisco this month. Some interesting insight into Twitters approach t...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I finished up the Mashery, Business of APIs Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. After a days rest and reflection on the event I wanted to capture my tho...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I am getting ready for the Mashery, Business of APIs Conference in San Francisco tomorrow. BAPI is in its 5th year of bringing together the big players in t...
With over 100 APIs, and an army of developer advocates, Google is one of the top API ecosystems in the world, alongside Twitter and Facebook. Google is stepping back and rethinking how they intera...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com At Mimeo I get approached by a lot of customers who use various learning management systems, and ask if they can print training and classroom materials from ...
Historically APIs are deployed to provide data and resources to business partners. However, in the last 5 years we have seen a shift in focus to also delivering more open, publicly focused APIs, ba...
Klout just updated their API area. The Klout API was originally released in 2009, but the new API area has several improvements including faster response times for the API, better documentation and...
One of the things I do here at API Evangelist is review APIs for their owners and provide suggestions for how they can improve the technology, ecosystem and better monetize their API. When it come...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Audrey introduced me to a very cool gaming company the other day called Tiny Speck. The company, the latest project of Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield,...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I wrote about the need for more Transit APIs a couple weeks ago, and the opportunity for some company or organization to step up and coordinate transit APIs ...
During TwilioCon last week I covered the release of Twilio Connect in two posts, starting with, “Twilio Introduces Twilio Connect, Its New In-App Billing Model” on ProgrammableWeb, and on API Evang...
I’m working on reviewing various APIs as part of my database industry overview, where I’m trying to understand the different approaches to delivering database platforms using web APIs as the primar...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I was reviewing the Recovery API yesterday, which gives you a RESTful API for exploring where all the money went as part of our governments Recovery Act. I h...
This post comes from the SDK Bridge newsletter. I find so much value from what Peter and Jonathan do over at SDK Bridge, I asked them if I could repost their newsletter here and share with all of ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Twilio just announced a new API billing solution called Twilio Connect. The new billing solution enables developers to offload charges for Twilio API usage ...
Not even a week after Google rolled out the long awaited Google+ API, they launched the Google+ Hangouts API, enabling developers to build collaborative apps that run inside of a Google+ Hangout T...
Code libraries have been a staple of open API communities for quite a few years now. API owners provide developers with working samples of code in a variety of programming languages, to get starte...
I was happy to see Google launch an API for Google + this week. I’m not chomping at the bit to build anything social on it, but I’m glad they made it public. I wanted to take some time to review...
I’ve come across several APIs lately that rely on getting their data from web scraping. These API owners have written scripts that spider page(s) on a regular schedule, pull content, parse it and ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Last week I covered Centralized Geo Data with New InfoChimps API, and talked about how I felt it was a Look at the Future of Data. After writing I started thi...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com As the API Evangelist for Mimeo, I spend a lot of time looking for other print related APIs. I spent some time today to update my list, and here what I found...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I believe that REST and JSON are breaking up the web, into smaller more understandable, re-usable, mashable pieces that potentially anyone can use, even non-de...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com At TechCrunch DISRUPT, this week in San Francisco, the Weather Underground launched a new Weather API platform that provides developers with real-time access t...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com The response to Sundays post about the Need for More Transit APIs was impressive. I receive quite a few emails and tweets about other APIs, and it started a g...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Mashery has announced the 2011 Business of APIs event series in October. The Business of APIs Conference discusses winning strategies for API businesses, how ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com DrawLoop provides a SOAP and REST API for merging data together into a single documents, using a User ID and Password combination for authentication. Using th...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com DrawLoop provides a SOAP and REST API for conversion of documents in various formats, using a User ID and Password combination for authentication. Using the D...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I’m working on some more stories around municipal data APIs, based upon two stories I found recently, where developers took it upon themselves to scrape data, ...
Here are a couple news stories from the week that I didn’t get a chance to write about. Google APIs Client Library for PHP - Google launches a new set of PHP Client LIbraries that work across m...
I followed the Jonthan’s Card Socal Experiment closely. The whole time I had an entry on my to do list, to write a story about it. I never successfully found an angle I could get behind, then Audre...
I made time for three posts on ProgrammableWeb this week. I provided some more coverage of Dreamforce, and their latest mobile platform. Then I covered the US invasion of Viadeo Social Network, an...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Someone asked me about APIs dealing with water and utilities a couple weeks ago. So I dove in to see what I could find related to APIs for city, county and st...
I have a personal obsession for finding, crunching and making sense out of local, state, and federal government data. I’m willing to do a lot of work to derive meaning about how our government wor...
Mashape, the upcoming, self-service marketplace for APIs, which provides a platform to distribute, consume and manage cloud based APIs, has just closed $1.5M in seed funding. The round was led by ...
Even though I cover the entire industry around APIs here on API Evangelist, I also am the API Evangelist for Mimeo Connect. Mimeo is a printing API that allows you to print a wide variety of busi...
At Mimeo, my API developers were running into problems integrating with our cloud print API, I needed a fast way to virtualize and deploy an API built on top of my existing REST API. A quick and d...
The Mimeo Connect Flyer & Brochure Printing API allows developers to submit PDF files, and order commercially printed flyers and brochures with different folds, color, paper, coating and hole p...
The Mimeo Connect Flyer & Brochure Printing API allows developers to submit PDF files, and order commercially printed flyers and brochures with different folds, color, paper, coating and hole p...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com The Mimeo Connect Poster Printing API allows developers to submit high resolution PDF files, and order commercially printed posters with different sizes, paper...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com The Mimeo Connect Card Printing API allows developers to submit PDF files, and order commercially printed cards in different sizes, paper and coatings from wit...
The Mimeo Connect Spiral Notebook Printing API allows developers to submit PDF files, and order commercially printed spiral notebooks in different sizes, paper and coatings from within your web and...
Sorry about the flood of 25 API Evangelist posts. It was due to the fact I switched to a new blogging system today. I was out growing what I could do with Wordpress, and had too much data and oth...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com The National Archives has published a new API, as part of an ongoing program to get more public records online, according to ComputerWeekly.com. The National ...
The guys over at Developer Think Tank are conducting a survey to measure developer program performance. Developer Think Tank wants to create a platform to discuss the way to create and run a succe...
Infochimps has delivered a new Geo API that brings together geographic data from multiple sources, connects it with a standardized schema, and delivers it to developers through a single API. When ...
I finally made some time to write up a review of the new Infochimps Geo API, and I think their approach gives us a glimpse at the future of data APIs. With the new Infochimps Geo API, Infochimps p...
On September 29th, Twitter will be making the Streaming API support only SSL. The Twitter Streaming API currently supports HTTPS requests, but will completely discontinue HTTP support by the end of...
Back in May Googledeprecatedthe free version of the Google Translate API, and pissed off a lot of people along the way. I talked about building your business around Google or any other APIs, and ev...
I was just reading a post at Mindtouch on having conditional documentation using MindTouch TCS. MindTouch TCS is a social knowledge-base, that can be used in building help systems and support commu...
I just finished the NYTimes article, United Pilots Get iPad Flight Manuals. This follows Alaska Airlines adopting the iPad, and Delta Airlines testing the iPad as a viable alternative to on-board m...
We hear about the struggles of newspapers, magazines, and book publishers to stay relevant in the digital age on almost a daily basis these days. Many of these publishers are sitting on a treasure ...
The WiseTrend OCR API allows developers to submit images in PDF, TIF, PNG, JPG,BMP, PCX and DCX formats, and get back textual results in TXT, PDF, RTF, Word, Excel, XML and CSV formats. WiseTrend ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I’m always on the lookout for innovative data sets and examples of APIs that provide value in ever-day life. APIs are often a very geeky thing, and I’m always ...
Google just put up a new Google+ Platform blog today, to support the growing demand around their new social platform. Developers have been waiting for the release of the Google+ API, so they can g...
With all of the technology available to us, the way we express ourselves online and interact between web applications is still in its infancy. The two most common examples of online interaction are...
Factual just launched a new API that will centralize how physical places are represented within Factual data-sets, and across 3rd party APIs, dubbed the Factual Crosswalk API. Data about physical ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Hackathons are becoming a popular vehicle worldwide for identifying talent, sharing ideas, tackling big data, building apps, and providing a forum for develope...
The DomainTools API provides research and monitoring web services for domains. Using DomainTools you can perform whois lookup, history, reverse IP, name server reports, domain suggestion and searc...
In order to be compliant with the OAuth spec, Facebook is making changes to their auth APIs. As part of this update, they will be deprecating ‘code_and_token’ and need developers to use ‘code%20tok...
The IMG to CSS API lets you convert images to html/css using a RESTful interface, with API keys for authentication, and responses in JSON and XML. The HTML / CSS code that is returned can be prett...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I’ve written about the essential building blocks necessary for a successful API, and there are other great posts like, What Developers Say About API Documentat...
I was just working on a piece for ProgrammableWeb about the new Yahoo WebPlayer, which is amedia player that can play video and audio from any site or service, and be distributed across the web. W...
Each day Federal agencies publish documents in the Federal Register. These documents include proposed rules, final rules, public notices, and Presidential actions. The print-based version of the Fe...
Last week at OSCON, I wrote about Mashery’s release of their new I/O Docs. Mashery I/O Docs are a combination of API documentation and an API explorer, allowing developers to make requests on an AP...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com The IndexTank API provides full-text, website search, using a RESTFUL interface, with private URLs for security, and responses in JSON. The IndexTank API prov...
I just finished reading two great posts about battles within API ecosystems.Convoluted TOS and “Open” APIs Will Be the Death of Us by Shion Deysarkar and Topify to Go Dark as Twitter Claims Another...
I had a discussion yesterday with Audrey Wattersabout the infamous junk drawer(s) that exists in every house. That end of the counter drawer that seems to accumulate everything from around our hous...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com One of my Google Alerts picked up on something interesting today. A PHP code library for the Github Gist API, for sale on the code marketplace CodeCanyon for $...
I was reviewing the image recognition API from Moodstocks, for a story on ProgrammableWeb today, and discovered another API management story I feel should be told. Its a story about bootstrapping y...
Layer 7 Technologies introduced a new OAuth Toolkit, ageneralized framework for handling a broad range of OAuth scenarios across cloud, web and mobile applications. OAuth is a simple way to publis...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Quicktate provides an XML-RPC API audio transcription, using API keys for authentication. Using the Quicktate API, developers can transcribe .wav or .mp3 audi...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com INRIX�, an international provider of traffic information, and driving services, announced a commitment of $37 million in funding led by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufi...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Amazon SimpleDB is a highly available, flexible, and scalable key-value data store built in the clouds. WebServius provides self-service API deployment and ma...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com In the summer of 2010 I was looking to reinvent my career. I was looking for a new direction. Somewhere I could apply all my strengths, and stay relevant and a...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Saplo provides an RESTful API for text analysis, using oath for authentication. Using the Saplo API you can perform text analysis such as entity tagging, rela...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com The file open dialog box is an important tool that we use every day, but we very rarely notice it or think much about it. On the Windows platform, using the f...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com API business models are still in its infancy. Many API owners are in experimental mode when it comes to how they make money with their API. Beyond the fuzzy p...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com A lot of innovation occurs at hackathons. Seems like every hackathon I attend, there are discussion about how to better harness the talent available at these e...
Phaxio provides a RESTful API for developers to send faxes from their applications. Using Phaxio you can send and receive faxes, with all responses formatted in JSON. All outgoing and incoming fa...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com It is hard for me to imagine why someone would launch a web application these days, without immediately launching an API, or at least having plans for an API s...
Last year google launched support for partial response and updates to a couple of the Google APIs. The goals was to significantly reduce network, memory, and CPU resources needed to work with Googl...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com As I’m reviewing APIs, I spend a lot of time considering the viability and business use cases for an API. While considering this, I keep having thoughts about...
WebServius provides a self-service tool for deploying, managing and monetizing datasets using an API. WebServius provides users with the ability to integrate and store data, and enable access to t...
One of the new features that Twitter rolled out with the new Twitter developer area was an enhanced search tool powered by Apache Solr. The new unified search provides an engine for searching acros...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I spend a lot of time looking through various APIs. One common problem I see, are with, what on the surface appear to be public APIs, but once I start looking ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com According to Reuters, Twitter is preparing to launch an Advertising API, targeting larger advertisers, allowing them to tailor, automate, and publish ads in bu...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Tumblr just released version 2.0 of the popular blogging platform API, in an effort to make developers lives a little easier when integrating with the Tumblr p...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Many Facebook developers have been confused about what it means to submit to the Facebook App Directory, and frustrated by the length of time it took to get th...
Box.net just announced the Mobile Dev Challenge,along with their release of two new API methods, an updated iOS library, and new Android library. The goal of the Box Mobile Dev Challenge is to bui...
Box.net just announced the Mobile Dev Challenge,along with their release of two new API methods, an updated iOS library, and new Android library. The goal of the Box Mobile Dev Challenge is to bui...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Foursquare launched a new Merchant API that will allow developers and merchants to create specials using any technology. The new Merchant API comes right afte...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Twitter just launch an updated version of the Twitter Developer Site. The new developer area focuses on enhancing developer communication channels and providin...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Foursquare is sunsetting their APIv1, and recently spent some time sharing the lessons they learned during APIv1 and the decisions that went into APIv2. Here ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Mashapereleased a few enhancements to their API management platform. Inbox - Mashape redesigned their inbox and messaging system. Developers can contact yo...
I made some more changes to my network over the holidays. I’m working to better tie together my blog(s) and my social network profiles using the rel=”” property. The process is a three part proces...
I updated the sharing tools on apievangelist.com today. Previously it had eight buttons, representing the top social network channels that drive traffic to the blog. I’m changing it, putting empha...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Amazon sent me an email about the recent signing of the online sales tax law by California Governor Brown, which would force online retailers who have no physi...
The Mashape API Proxy is an open-source version of the same proxy that allows APIs to integrate with the Mashape Platform andhandles authorizing users, billing, rate limiting and other features. V...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Energy pricing data provider Genability just announced the roll-out of more flexible pricing for their API. The new pricing structure gives Genability API dev...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I’m exploring the Mashape API Platform, trying to break things down and understand everything in more detail. Blogging about a topic does this for me. So let’...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com The other week I attended an event put on byMashery, calledThe Evolution of Distribution. Mashery has published videos from the event on their site. The event...
Facebook just officially launched the Graph API Explorer, a tool allowing developers to quickly explore the social graph of people, photos, events, pages and the relationships between them, via the...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Apigee justannounced their Apigee Enterprise Cloud PCI, a new offering that enables organizations to deliver transactional APIs, securely deployed in a private...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Mobile is hot. Everyone is talking about thegrowth in mobile payments this year. Forrester Research predicted that mobile commerce will hit $6 billion in 2011...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com The Mashape Documentor is an engine for automatically generating a mobile version of documentation for any API running on the Mashape API Platform. Using PHP,...
Amazon recently sent an email to all developers notifying them of upcoming changes to the Alexa Top Sites API. On November 25, 2011 Amazon will deprecate the Alexa Top Sites SOAP API. The SOAP int...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com This is one story I’m sure I will be telling over and over. Its about providing self-service registration to your API, and access to your documentation. I’m w...
When managing an API and its ecosystem, we are all making this up as we go along. We have to constantly try new things, build them out, test, measure, and readjust. Measuring being the most import...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com There are many tools out there for working with Web APIs, but the one I am seeing used more and more is an API explorer. API explorers allow users to make call...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com APIs are hot right now. With the success of Twitter, Twilio, Facebook and others – due in no small part to their APIs – the enterprise space is taking notice. ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Two API service providers have brought their products together to deliver a more robust enterprise API solution. 3Scale API management platform now integrates ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com The HAPI hackathon wrapped up June 12th in San Francisco. The event brought developers together to hack on over 9 APIs in order to build something cool over th...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com At the Glue Conference this year in Colorado, I sat on a panel called, Whats Next for APIs?. In my talk, one area I focused on, was how industries would organi...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I recently moved my IDE off my desktop and onto the web. I’m test driving two separate web-based integrated development environments (IDE): Akshell - I lik...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Genability have assembled a database of electricity pricing information from over 3500 electricity providers throughout North America. TheGenability API is RE...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Two new API management platforms were launched this month. Layer 7 technologies launched the Layer 7 API Portal, and SOA Software launched their Atmosphere API...
Layer 7 Technologies recently launched a new API Portal platform. The new Layer 7 API portal provides API service providers with a secure, turn-key way to manage developers who build applications a...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Factual is an open data platform and community, with a goal to maximize data accuracy, transparency, and availability. They provide a marketplace of evolving d...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Posterous recently launched a new API giving users access to all the functionality available through the Posterous web interface. Instead of just delivering d...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com SOA Software just launched a new API management platform called, Atmosphere. Atmosphere provides a secure, platform that companies can deploy to manage their ...
Twitter has launched a new building block for their API community, a YouTube Channel. The new YouTube Twitter API channel will contain interviews, tutorials and other video content that is produce...
Back when I first started doing API reviews on API Evangelist, I did a review of USA Today’s API. At first I almost didn’t post the review. It was such a simple API, with nothing innovative to spe...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Many API owners depend on their APIs for identifying new types of business models, turning their API ecosystems into research & development platforms. Edw...
Having a privacy policy on your API is an important part of making it clear to developers and end-users, where your company stands in regard to their data and personal privacy. Just having a priva...
Having a privacy policy on your API is an important part of making it clear to developers and end-users, where your company stands in regard to their data and personal privacy. Just having a priva...
Hunch’s ambitious mission is to build a ‘Taste Graph’ of the entire web, connecting every person on the web with their affinity for anything, from books to electronic gadgets to fashion or vacation...
When I review a new API, I take a look at the technology they provide, but I tend to focus on the business of their API. One area I look at, is what tools they use to deliver the building blocks t...
When I review a new API, I take a look at the technology they provide, but I tend to focus on the business of their API. One area I look at, is what tools they use to deliver the building blocks t...
I am making some adjustments to my Google Alerts today. I removed a few and added a few alerts. Here are my current Google Alerts: call for papers kin lane open API REST API self publ...
I’m working through some 100K views of the API service provider arena, and trying to evolve my perspectives of Whats Next for APIs. This is all a work in progress, so I’m publishing here on kinlan...
Every Web API is designed to receive requests from and respond to the outside world. Every day an API kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com millions of calls. Before the API can process these requ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Etsy’s mission is to enable people to make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers . Ety’s vision is to build a new economy and present a ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I was having a beer with Dr. Alexandre Passant of Seevl the other day, we were talking about music, APIs and the Seevl API. A while back I wrote a piece about...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com In a single announcement yesterday, the blogging service Posterous went from Software as a Service (SaaS) to Platform as a Service (PaaS), with the introductio...
I’ve heard this story several times now, but I think its a story worth telling over and over. It is the story of the Netflix API and the lessons they learned along the way. Not every API owner wil...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com The Dwolla payment service just launched a new payment API called Grid. Before you can understand grid, you need to understand Dwolla’sphilosophyon payments. ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com iCloud storage APIs allow IOS application developers to store documents and other data to a central location so userscan view or edit from any device without h...
There is a hackathon going on this weekend in San Francisco over at the TokBox Offices. HAPI Hack Weekend has a pretty simple focus: Create cool new software using APIs. The event starts Friday, ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com The goal of any API evangelist is to encourage its community to build mobile and web applications around their API. When you and your community have several w...
Google Calendar has a new feature for managing “Appointment Slots”. These appointment slots are a great way to let others know preferred times when you are available. Open office hours are becomin...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Lots of big news coming out of Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC2011) in San Francisco today. There were major enhancements coming down the pipes ...
Kumar Kandaswamy, Director of Open API Platform Business for Best Buy, spoke at Mashery’s The Evolution of Distribution event today. Kandaswamy offered some practical advice for retail companies t...
Providing some real-world examples, Mashery invited four leaders in the API space to speak: Daniel Jacobson, Director of Engineering for Netflix API who walked us through how APIs are allowing ...
I’m processing all my notes from the 2011 Glue Conference, which has been one of the most thought provoking events I’ve been to this year. The best part of events like Gluecon is you get to hang w...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com With all the buzz around APIs these days, its easy to get swept up in all the hype around open APIs, and miss the mark with your own API deployment. So what d...
Get Satisfaction is one way to build API forums that enable productive conversations between an API owner and the developer ecosystem. Simply engaging your customers in conversation won’t earn you...
3taps is a data platform that aggregates searches and posting to multiple data platforms into single interface. 3taps API provides a RESTful interface with app and keys for authentication, provide...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Qwerly provides a single data API for accessing social network profiles across multiple networks including Twitter, Facebook, and Twitter. Qwerly only offers ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com There is an ever growing amount of data available today and much of this data is now being collected and stored across a wide variety of system, locked into sp...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com We are in the middle of an era of unprecedented growth in the number of available web APIs. In March 2011 ProgrammableWeb hit 3000 APIs in its directory, and i...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I’m reading all the starred items in my Google Reader about Google’s latest closing of APIs, most notably Google Translate API. There are some pretty sensation...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Seevl, a music discovery service that provides anew way to explore the cultural and musical universe of various artists, just launched an API with the assistan...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com The Rainmaker API, which provides developers with a bi-directional sync from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and other contact management systems is holding an API...
Google has had a busy year when it comes to APIs. So far this year they’ve launched 6 new APIs: Tasks API Books API Pagespeed Online API Places API Prediction API Fusion Tables API ...
Loggly recently changed the structure for their cloud-based logging service from a tiered pricing, to a user-defined variable pricing structure. Users can define their own pricing tier using two k...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Tomorrow I’m participating in a session at Gluecon called Finishing School for Potential API Providers. Justin Tormey of Alcatel-Lucent will be talking some a...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com The modern Web API got its start in CRM with Salesforce, and in E-commerce with Ebay and Amazon, but it really found traction with social platforms like Flickr...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I’m preparing for another talk tomorrow at the Glue conference in Colorado. Glue is a conference that assists architects, developers, administrators and integr...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I’m preparing for a talk tomorrow at the Glue conference in Colorado. Glue is a conference that assists architects, developers, administrators and integrators ...
Evernote has announced their first ever developer competition and conference called, The Evernote Trunk Conference (ETC). ETC is a one day event in San Francisco bringing together developers and e...
I was writing a story for ProgrammableWeb tonight on the enhancements Google made recently to its API console. I hadn’t properly covered the API Console, API Explorer here on API Evangelist, so I ...
The Google APIs Explorer is is a tool that helps you explore various Google APIs in a web interface without writing any code. kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Google APIs Explorer allows you ...
TheGoogle APIs Discovery Service provides a set of web APIs for discovering metadata across Google APIs. The discovery service delivers a JSON-based API that provides a directory of supported Goog...
The Google APIs Console is an interface for developers to manage and view traffic data, authentication, and billing information for up to 15 Google APIs, and more coming soon. Developers can bundl...
I just wrote about the potential ofopen source API billing and traffic control building blocks, if Google would open source their Google API Console, like they did with the Google API Explorer. I ...
With the growing number of 3D models used in 3D printing there is a building need for warehouse space to store these virtual products, and parts. Of course this is virtual warehouse space, but it ...
3D printing starts with someones idea. Someones idea to recreate an existing object, or a vision of an object they hold in their head. The evolution of 3D modeling software and 3D printers is crea...
Once in production, a 3D model will be printed layer by layer using one of four potential 3D printing processes and corresponding materials: Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) - SLS is an additive...
Once in production, a 3D model will be printed layer by layer using one of four potential 3D printing processes and corresponding materials: Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) - SLS is an additive...
Marketplaces are necessary to showcase and make 3D printing products and parts accessible by the public and other potential customers. Shapeways and Google SketchUp provide integrated warehousing ...
Just like it takes creators to develop 3D models of physical objects, it takes makers, who are people that actually bring these virtual representations into the world. 3D printers do most of the w...
3D models used in 3D printing are stored in files. These files can be a wide range of standard or specialized file formats. File formats often depend on the type of 3D modeling software used, but ...
3D printing is about delivering a virtual object as a physical object, on demand. This is where our current shipping industry steps in; UPS, Fedex, USPS, DHS and other shipping providers will make...
3D printing doesn’t always start with a human designer or creator. There are wide variety of 3D scanners that can be used in the 3D printing process. A 3D scanner is a device that analyzes a real-...
When it comes to creating 3D models for 3D printing there are many types of software to choose from. 3D software solutions range from commercial to free, and can be desktop or part of a newer evol...
A 3D printer works by taking a 3D model, then by making a series of slices that are printed one on top of the other to create a 3D object of the model. Since 2003 there has been large growth in th...
Google has partnered with TRUSTe to offer Data Privacy Certification for Google Apps Marketplace Apps. The certification program assists vendors of installable apps better communicate their data p...
API Explorers are proving to be an essential tool when getting up and running developing against an API. Apigee, Salesforce, Google, Microsoft, and Infochimps have all deployed REST API Explorers ...
Canada’s Yellow Pages Group (YPG)kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.comtem to support their local search and location based services (LBS) API, YellowAPI.com. YPG sees their developer ecosystem muc...
Canada’s Yellow Pages Group (YPG) launched a new developer ecosystem to support their local search and location based services (LBS) API, YellowAPI.com. YPG sees their developer ecosystem much dif...
Google has had a busy year when it comes to APIs. So far this year they’ve launched 6 new APIs: Tasks API Books API Pagespeed Online API Places API Prediction API Fusion Tables API ...
Publisher and ed-tech company Pearson announced a new initiative to build an API platform that give developers access to the publisher’s content. Pearson’s Plug & Play Platform claims to unloc...
The Amazon Associates Program allows web site owners to make money by marketing Amazon products on other their sites. Users can market products using links and widgets they create by using the sit...
I’m working to make it easier to get up and running using the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API. One concept that is tough to understand at first, is that all printing starts with a Mimeo document. T...
Embeddable widgets come in many formats, from JavaScript to iFrames, and are quickly becoming commonplace, especially within e-commerce platforms. Embeddable objects allow users, especially non-de...
I’m starting to see more API providers working together to attract developers to their platforms. As an API Evangelist I look for other APIs that enhance the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API, and try...
In 2006, 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 photo-sharing...
With the recent explosion in the number and usage of APIs, the Internet technology industry is well aware of the value of the application programming interface. It recognizes that APIs drive much o...
As the Mimeo.com API Evangelist one of my jobs is to find other platforms, services and technology that goes well with the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API. One such platform that I’ve identified as ...
Facebook has been accused of not caring about, or communicating with its developers, an image that can be hard to shake. Recently they made a huge effort in turning this around, with a campaign ca...
As the Mimeo.com API Evangelist one of my jobs is to find other platforms, services and technology that goes well with the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API. One such platform that I’ve identified a...
As the Mimeo.com API Evangelist one of my jobs is to find other platforms, services and technology that goes well with the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API. One such platform that I’ve identified as ...
As the Mimeo.com API Evangelist one of my jobs is to find other platforms, services and technology that goes well with the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API. One such platform that I’ve identified as ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com When it comes to APIs, and who uses them, we often think about partners. Sharing data and resources with partners has long been the number one reason for deplo...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Marco Arment creator of Instapaper, is sharing his thoughts and strategy around the decision to discontinue the free version of the Instaper IPhone application...
3D printing innovators Shapeways has released a new concept in 3D Printing. Image Popper is a new tool that allows you to upload a black and white JPG, and Shapeways will generate 3D model from it...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Foursquare just highlighted an innovative use of their API, that alerts people to public health issues. DontEat.at is a service which merges city health code ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Not all APIs are the same. Even with RESTful approaches to delivering APIs they can be quite different. As APIs grow and as we want to be able to connect apps...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com As I’m identifying common building used by various API service providers to build their APIs and communities, there are two innovative tools Im seeing show up ...
I’m doing a lot of researching and thinking about the future of commercial printing, 3D printing, and manufacturing. Yesterday I was brainstorming on 3D printing and manufacturing with Google. To...
I’m watching the future of manufacturing and printing unfold slowly in front of us. I’m paying attention to 3D printing solutions evolving from companies like Shapeways, MakerBot, Materialise, ZCor...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I’m organizing my code libraries tonight. These are PHP, JavaScript, Regular Expressions, SQL, and other tools I use for different purposes. One such purpose ...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I’m spending time going through RedHat’s Deltacloud set of cloud APIs. They recently recently moved the project to the Apache Incubator and submitted it to the...
The ability to send email invitations to other potential users is a pretty common tool in place in many applications, helping them hopefully to expand their user-base. Phaxio, an API that allows d...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Phaxio lets developers build faxing capabilities into systems with a simple API. The Phaxio API provides a RESTful API, using production and test application ...
How do you measure the popularity of your API, or someone else’s API? If its your API, hopefully you have metrics established for every part of your API and supporting API area. But how can we me...
Hackathon to build the most innovative app in either the business, consumer, enterprise and mobile space using the DocuSign API. Dates May 14-15, 2011 Location DocuSign Offices @ 111 Sut...
As an API Evangelist I’m always grouping and targeting my API consumers, to better meet their needs and identify their role within my API ecosystem. The three main groups that I bre...
Presentation assets are the user interface or visual front-end to an application. Logic assets are the algorithms, analytics or services which take data inputs, do some processing and provide a res...
Hoovers Inc, a provider of an API that allows you to stream reliable, on-demand business information into applications is holding an API Tweetup: When: April 21, 2011 Time: 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. EST ...
There is an excellent analysis of Open API usage in news organizations at the Nieman Journalism Lab, called Wisdom of the (developer) crowd: Key lessons from news organizations using open APIs to r...
There is an excellent analysis of Open API usage in news organizations at the Nieman Journalism Lab, called Wisdom of the (developer) crowd: Key lessons from news organizations using open APIs to r...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I’ve been watching my girlfriend Audrey Watters, evolve her online presence as a freelance writer working for ReadWriteWeb, O’Reilly, NPR Mindshift, and other ...
Sample code libraries are an essential part of an API ecosystem. They give developers a head start when integrating their applications with an API. I’ve explored the concept of letting your API de...
We are witnessing some tremendous growth in the number of new Web APIs. ProgrammableWeb, for example, added 1000 new APIs to its directory over the last year. Many of these APIs are brand new and ...
LinkedIn refreshed its developer platform recently, updating its RESTful API and JavaScript API. A noticeable change, was its continued evolution towards a more plug and play API environment. Whe...
Github launched someenhancements to its GitHub Jobs homepage, and IPhone application. Being the forward thinkers they are, they say: If there’s an app there’s an API, so we’ve made ours availa...
I am slowly working my way through hundreds of APIs and doing business reviews of their approach to delivering their APIs. At API Evangelist I’m focused on the business of APIs, with a minor focus...
Freshbooks provides time tracking, expense and invoicing Software as a Service (SaaS). The Freshbooks API is a RESTful API, using OAuth for authentication. The API provides sixteen endpoints, prov...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Hack Day, the all-day API hackathon is coming to Chicago on Saturday, May 28th, from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM. Hack Day is hosted at the Morningstar offices, 22 Wes...
There are many approaches to building an API ecosystem. Some approach it more like building an API community, and others as growing an API ecosystem. Howard Liptzin, at Avatar Industries prefers a...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I keep stumbling across innovative approaches to using Web APIs, for non-developers. The other day I wrote about quantifying your social media impact, using G...
I just finished reading, Will 3-D Printing End Mass Manufacturing, on Mashable. I also had a link to an open source manufacturing site bookmarked from a couple months ago. And of course I live an...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Readability is having a contest encouraging developers to build innovative reading applications using the Readability API. Contest Starts: 4/6/2011 Submi...
Rdio is a music streaming service, where users can access music via the web or mobile phone for a monthly fee. Using Mashery, Rdio provides a RESTful API where you can do just about anything you c...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com In my quest to fully understand the underlying principles of Representational State Transfer (REST), i’m re-reading Roy Thomas Fielding original dissertation, ...
A group of innovators called BlablabLAB have integrated a Kinect with a 3-D printer to print personalized statues. BlablabLAB setup an interactive art installation on the streets of Barcelona, whi...
One of the reasons I believe APIs are growing so popular is they are getting easier, and easier to use. The main reason they are getting easier to use is due to the adoption of RESTful approaches ...
I have found a voice through my blog, API Evangelism. I get asked why “API Evangelism” instead of “Developer Evangelism”? I see a significant difference: Developer Evangelists spread awarenes...
Google Apps is an online email, document, and collaboration platform in the clouds. Google Apps Marketplace provides a directory of custom third party applications in various categories for Google...
Box.net provides a cloud platform for storing, sharing and managing files and content in the cloud. Box.net OpenBox provides a directory of custom third party applications that add value to Box.ne...
Box.net provides a cloud platform for storing, sharing and managing files and content in the cloud. Box.net OpenBox provides a directory of custom third party applications that add value to Box.ne...
APIs have been influential in ushering in a new era of business development, dubbed BizDev 2.0. APIs empower new types of relationship to be built between a business and its partners or openly by p...
In addition to the growth in number of APIs, and the evolution ofBizDev 2.0, there is a rise in self-service application platforms accompanying APIs, within many cloud platforms. Platforms such as...
Now the content “consumer” can take returned inkinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com display on web page using JavaScript, PHP or other language. This is just a simple example of using oEmbed to d...
Embed.ly launched a new, improved API area with a focus on helping first time users to understand what the API is, and how to use it quicker. If your not familiar with Embed.ly, the API allows dev...
Embed.ly launched a new, improved API area with a focus on helping first time users to understand what the API is, and how to use it quicker. If your not familiar with Embed.ly, the API allows dev...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Superfeedr keeps showing what a pioneer they are when it comes to web, API and feed technology, with a release of an Ejabber module that builds WebSockets into...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I’m spending time evaluating different types of APIs in various categories. I want to see how each provider delivers their API in similar categories, and pote...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com When deploying an API, the interface is just the beginning. You need tools and resources to support the API. There are common building blocks that are used by...
All of us programmers have a preferred programming language. It is the language that we identify with and prefer to build projects in. When it comes to delivering an API area, one of the most impo...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that uses the Git revision control system. The site also provides social networking fu...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com An important tone of my blog is not to ever say any API owner should, or developers have to do anything. kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.comrve, discuss and ...
Mendeley, the academic social network for organizing, discovering and collaborating around research, has announced an API contest. Mendeley is awarding $10,001 for anyone kinlane-productions2.s3.a...
NPR announced their new NPR News application for Android 2.0 today. Normally I wouldn’t cover just any new app or feature release, but there is more of a story here than just a new mobile app. I a...
NPR announced their new NPR News application for Android 2.0 today. Normally I wouldn’t cover just any new app or feature release, but there is more of a story here than just a new mobile app. I a...
Factual has announced a new contest. They are encouraging users to buid an app that uses both IndexTank real-time custom search API and Factual’s dataset of 14M US businesses. Contest Prizes are: ...
Its kind of goofy at first glance, but if you think about it…it is a pretty powerful application of an API. GranataPet, a German dog food manufacturer, created a billboard that dispenses a treat f...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Since the Twitter OAuth Apocalypse integrating tweets into a web page requires writing an OAuth application for even the simplest of Twitter integrations, like...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I document a lot of the common building blocks used by API providers. These are common tools used across many industries and types of APIs to build their ecosy...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com The Netflix API allows anyone to build a custom application integrated with the Netflix movie and television streaming platform. Netflix provides a RESTful an...
I just finished reading two more posts on the recent changes to the Twitter API terms of service. There are a lot of opinions on whether Twitter was right or wrong in their approach to reign in the...
Watchmouse, a website and application performance monitoring service launched a new report that monitors the top 50 most popular APIs as ranked by ProgrammableWeb. A few of the APIs included in th...
I am seeing more API owners and service providers launching REST API explorers lately: Apigee Console Salesforce Google Windows Live Infochimps These REST API explorers allow users to...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Infochimps recently launch some new API calls, and expect to be launching hundreds more in the coming months. Infochimps is taking large data sets in areas li...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com As such, there has been much discussion recently about Open APIs and whether or not third party developers are wise or foolish to build their businesses on som...
kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com I wanted to establish a base Terms of Service for my API area. So I went and read the API terms of service from 15 top APIs I found the opening paragraph say...
AlchemyAPI, a natural language processing service announced a new sentiment analysis layer to its existing text-mining Software as a Service (SaaS). The service can be used by online publishers, n...
Silicon Valley is full of ideas. APIs provide the data and functionality that many of these ideas are built on. If you have an API, hopefully you have lots of ideas on what developers can do with...
Twitter has been working hard lately to define the rules of the road for the Twitter API ecosystem. When it comes to monetizing content and media, there are many differing opinions and by extensio...
Google will start supporting the use of SSL in many of their APIs. SSL will improve API security by encrypting all data communications between 3rd party applications and Google, protecting data fr...
Google has evolved their API authentication to embrace OAuth 2.0. Even though the OAuth 2.0 specification isn’t 100% finalized, Google has overhauled all of their APIs in Google Code to support it...
Google has evolved their API authentication to embrace OAuth 2.0. Even though the OAuth 2.0 specification isn’t 100% finalized, Google has overhauled all of their APIs in Google Code to support it...
In March 2006, Amazon launched a groundbreaking web service that marked a significant departure from its traditional e-commerce platform. This new initiative was a storage web service called Amazon...
In August 2006, shortly after Amazon launched its new cloud storage service Amazon S3, the company followed with a new cloud computing service called Amazon EC2, or Elastic Compute Cloud. Amazon EC...
On October 6, 2010, Instagram launched its photo-sharing iPhone application. Less than three months later, it had attracted one million users. Kevin Systrom, the founder of Instagram, focused on de...
On October 6, 2010 Instagram launched its photo-sharing iPhone application. Less than three months later, it had one million users. Kevin Systrom the founder of Instagram focused on ...
Foursquare launched in March 2009 at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. It is a location-based mobile platform that makes cities more engaging to explore. By checking in via a smartphone ...
In March 2009 Foursquare launched at the SXSW interactive festival in Austin, TX. Foursquare is a location-based mobile platform that makes cities more interesting to explore, by che...
Zappos has announced an API developer contest called the Zappos API Developer Challenge-palooza-athon. They are looking for web applications, mobile apps, or even a simple widget that is built wit...
This is a presentation hacker advocate Abraham Williams gave at an Apigee API Meetup in February meetup on the care and feeding of API champions- or as he calls them, unicorns. Thanks for sharing t...
I have been thinking aboutAdam Kleinbergs recent posts,Why Every Brand Needs an Open API for Developers andDigging deeper on Brand APIs. He’s right. The pace of API development skyrocketed in 2010...
I have been thinking aboutAdam Kleinbergs recents post,Why Every Brand Needs an Open API for Developers andDigging deeper on Brand APIs. He’s right. The pace ofAPI development skyrocketed in 2010,...
I have been thinking aboutAdam Kleinbergs recent posts,Why Every Brand Needs an Open API for Developers andDigging deeper on Brand APIs. He’s right. The pace of API development skyrocketed in 2010...
I have been thinking aboutAdam Kleinbergs recent posts,Why Every Brand Needs an Open API for Developers andDigging deeper on Brand APIs. He’s right. The pace ofAPI development skyrocketed in 2010,...
Congratulations to ProgrammableWeb for hitting the 3000th API in their directory. The ProgrammableWeb API directory has seen some amazing growth: 1,000 APIs: over 3 years 2,000 APIs: less th...
Just days after Apigee made their API explorer free and embeddable, Google has announced a new API Explorer. The new Google API Explorer is an interactive interface for playing with Google APIs. ...
Engineers in the UK are using 3D printing with a nylon powder to create a really cool, futuristic bicycle. Guided by a computer-aided design program, a laser fuses together several layers of finel...
Apigee has released its API Console as a free, publicly available tool for use by any API provder. The API Console allows developers to view an API, authenticate with the API and begin making requ...
I have spent time reviewing 100+ of the most popular APIs. I am trying to determine a common set of building blocks that are essential to API adoption. Here is a list of what I consider are thkinl...
Mashape provides tools that enable developers to quickly deliver and consume APIs and offers a marketplace for listing APIs to buy and sell. For developers looking to publish any resource as an AP...
In the last 20 years we’ve seen the how the Internet has altered the role of the developer from a desktop software developer to aweb application developer. It started with web sites, the need for ...
API code samples and software development kits (SDK) are among the most important tools for getting developers up and running with any API. Providing complete sets of code samples for every area o...
Every API owner wants to ensure she or he has high quality, professional developers to refer to partners when building applications that use their API. It can take years to cultivate an organic com...
One way to make sure your API has qualified and reputable developers from day one is to tap into an existing freelance developer community. Popular freelance sites like Elance provide existing com...
One of the goals of any API is to catch the attention of developers and become a tool they depend on and integrate regularly into their applications. If you build an API and release it into the wi...
Integrating with APIs requires a wide variety of skills. Depending on the technology an API uses, integration may require knowledge of OAuth, REST, SOAP, XML, JSON, and mobile platforms. Each API ...
Taking an API from area to community takes a lot of work. It just doesn’t happen overnight. It takes a perfect balance of technology, developers, partners, resources and hard work. APIs are a big ...
Superfeedr is now supporting PubSubHubbub for data APIs. PubSubHubbub was initially created for XML to alleviate the number of times a feed is polled versus how many times it actually has an update...
The cloud communications platform Twilio has a new API developer contest this week. As usual they are looking for someone to build a killer app that uses the Twilio voice and SMS API. This round ...
Google just released the Google Apps Shell Interface (GASI), a graphical user interface for working with Google Apps APIs. GASI allows Google Apps administrators to make certain API calls through ...
Twilio is having a new developer contest called Sweet Sound of APIs. Mission: Create something cool using your favorite music API and Twilio. Prize: Amazon Kindle 3G and $100 in Twilio Credit De...
In 2007 the popular statue Rodin’s Thinker was stolen from the Singer Laren museum and damaged while the thieves were trying to destroy and sell it for scrap metal. At the request of the museum, a...
OAuth is an open protocol to allow secure API authorization for web applications, desktop applications, mobile phones, and other devices. When OAuth is implemented for an API, it provides benefits...
Basic Auth is a way for a web browser or application to provide credentials in the form of a username and password. Because Basic Auth is integrated into HTTP protocol it is the easiest way for us...
Sunlight Labs has released an API that will help address the Sunlight Foundation’s mission - making information about government more open and transparent. The Sunlight Congress API provides an in...
Pingdom is a Software as a Service(SaaS) that provides website monitoring and up-time reporting. Recently they started offering public report pages. These reports or status pages allows you to mak...
As mobile phone adoption and usage continues to grow we are seeing a parallel growth in APIs to support the mobile browsing market. Many API providers are seeing the majority of calls coming from ...
Instapaper just launched a Full API giving developers access to web pages that Instagram users have saved to read later. The API provides full Instapaper account access, but can only access web pa...
We hear a lot of talk about companies that were pioneers in the API space. In an ongoing series we want to try to document the story behind these pioneers, and we are calling it History of APIs. S...
In February 2004, the popular photo-sharing site Flickr was launched. Six months later, they introduced their now-famous API, and within another six months, Yahoo acquired the platform. Originally ...
The OpenTok API is holding a developer contest to see who has the most unique and innovative approach to the video chat market. The company is holding a series of contests over 6 weeks: Week 1...
OpenTok is a free set of APIs from TokBox that enables websites to integrate live, group video communication into their web sites and applications. The OpenTok provides a RESTFul API using an appl...
The mobile photo sharing site Instagram officially launched an API this evening. This comes just under a month after the company asked developers to stop using a rogue API that was reverse enginee...
SOAP, or Simple Object Access Protocol, is an XML-based protocol that allows applications to exchange information over the Internet using HTTP or RPC. SOAP uses Extensible Markup Language (XML) fo...
Events are definitely one of the most important tools in an API Evangelist’s tool box. Making a regular showing at popular events both on and offline is critical to building the awareness and the ...
So you want to share some data– perhaps out of the goodness of your heart, perhaps it makes you look good or perhaps you’re required to do so. kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Whatever the ca...
With the increase growth in API usage in 2010, and expected growth in 2011, the need for high availability APIs will increase. One way to localize usage and increase API performance is to deploy r...
Binpress is a marketplace for code, where software developers can buy and sell source code from each other. And it’s holding a developer contest. Binpress is looking for high quality code from pro...
According to Forrester Research, the U.S. mobile banking market has experienced rapid growth in the past three years, more than doubling from 5% of online adults in 2007 to 12% in Q2 2010. By 2015...
XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a way for programs to exchange information. It is very similar to JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). XML was originally designed to describe documents, but has ...
On June 29th, 2006, Google launched Google Maps API allowing developers to put Google Maps on their own sites using JavaScript. The API launch was just shy of 6 months after the release of Google ...
On June 29th, 2006, Google launched Google Maps API allowing developers to put Google Maps on their own sites using JavaScript. The API launch was just shy of 6 months after the rele...
APIs are not just for exchanging of data. They provide much needed functionality for developers and integrators. The functionality of an API can provide shipping costs as the Fedex API does, or pr...
Sharing information and services with your partners is vital to your business. With the complexities of businesses’ systems and the security of firewalls, this exchange isn’t always easy. Defining...
REST or Representational State Transfer is term that describes a specific approach to delivering an API or web service. REST takes advantage of the same Internet mechanisms that are used to view r...
A new Drupal module makes use of the Drupal Entity API and then takes information about the entity and delivers it as a Restful Web Service. kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com Features are: ...
February 7th, 2000 Salesforce.com officially launched at the IDG Demo 2000 conference. Salesforce.com launched its enterprise-class, web-based, sales force automation as a “Internet as a service”....
February 7th, 2000 Salesforce.com officially launched at the IDG Demo 2000 conference. Salesforce.com launched its enterprise-class, web-based, sales force automation as a “Internet as a service”. ...
On August 15, 2006, Facebook launched its long-awaited development platform and API. Version 1.0 of the Facebook Development Platform provided developers access to Facebook friends, photos, events,...
Amazon.com Web Services (AWS) allowed third party sites to search and display products from Amazon.com. Product data was made accessible using XML and SOAP. From day one the API was integrated wit...
Flattr the social micro-payment site, made their API public today. The API comes in two flavors. Javascript API REST API Flattr provides application registration and authentication with oA...
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a way for programs to exchange information. It is very similar to XML (Extensible Markup Language). APIs are are way for programs to communicate and since they...
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a way for programs to exchange information. It is very similar to XML (Extensible Markup Language). APIs are are way for programs to communicate and since they...
An Application Programming Interface (API) is a way for websites, programs, and mobile applications to talk to each other. APIs allow access to information, provide functionality or control electr...
Having a framework for managing your API code samples and libraries is essential to providing partners and developers with relevant, useful and functional code they can use to integrate with your A...
Having a framework for managing your API code samples and libraries is essential to providing partners and developers with relevant, useful and functional code they can use to integrate with your A...
On September 20, 2006, Twitter introduced the Twitter API to the world. Similar to the release of the eBay API, Twitter’s API launch was a response to the growing number of users scraping the site ...
On November 20, 2000, eBay launched the eBay Application Program Interface (API) and introduced the eBay Developers Program. Initially, the eBay API was made available exclusively to a select group...
The YT.Player is used to control the player, defined by script loaded from http://www.youtube.com/player_api. Here is the Youtube Player API documentation.
StackApps is an API for the family of Q&A websites using the Stack Exchange engine including Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Super User. StackApps provides a RESTFul API using a basic applica...
One of the aspects of my current job that I enjoy, is the transparent nature of my role. My job is to generate attention for Mimeo and the Mimeo Connect Cloud Print API. Let me give you an example...
Those of us in the tech community who work with APIs talk a lot about the API economy. This refers to how the Internet is changing all industries on a global scale, and how APIs are a driving forc...
You want to make it as easy as possible for developers to get up and running with your API. You don’t want developers to fumble around with lengthy registrations and approval processes. Your API ...
Marketing products and services to developers can be difficult. They are unlike other consumers and often are difficult to reach and build trust with. Recently, I was discussing which group within...
Google launched a much anticipated API for the Google URL shortener today as part of the Google Code Labs. The Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them in...
I am taking some time and writing down my image management strategy to share with Audrey. I have a specific process and set of tools I use to manage images I use across my Kin Lane Blog, API Evange...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) changed up its premium support offerings, introducing two new support plans: Bronze Plan - The Bronze Plan is meant for developers at $49.00 / month. Platinum Plan -...
Quora has exposed a JSON-based data API that allows users to access data about a currently logged-in user. To request particular fields about the currently logged-in user, you can add fields to a ...
FRAPI is an open source RESTful API framework developed in PHP. It can be used as the backbone of your RESTful web service. FRAPI allows you to instantly have a REST framework for handling all the...
In 2010 contests were a proven way to generate attention about your API and products as well as generate some great code and applications for your API. Some contests in 2010 were: AWS Start-up...
