Weekly API.Report For May 4th, 2015

I'm one day late this week, but got er done--yay!!

My Weekly API.Report represents the best of what I've read throughout the week, and is only what I personally felt should be showcased. Each news item comes with a link, and some thoughts I had after curating the piece of API related news. I'm trying to break down stories into as coherent buckets as I can, but it remains something that is ever changing for me, but ultimately I will settle on a clear definition for each of the research areas.

Kicking off again with some Accounting:

• QuickBooks(Intuit) Payment Gateway for OpenCart (OpenCart) - An accounting integration for OpenCart on CodeCanyon. Slowly racking these up, and will look at some point what is published to CodeCanyon over time. A lot of it is sponsored, you can tell, but some is organic.

A rare Advertising item to float up on my list:

• Cablevision offers tool for targeted ad campaigns - Advertising on Cable using APIs...interesting.

The Analytics discussions I tuned into:

• Apple opens beta testing of analytics tool for iOS app developers - I am not sure why companies are rolling there own analytics with the wealth of solutions out there, but I guess Apple is exception to rule.
• Cupenya Makes its Business Analytics Solution Available to Developers through IBM Cloud - An analytics solution being delivered via the IBM platform. 
• Introducing Pushpop for Slack: push your analytics data to Slack - I am tracking on more Slack integrations, but this one is particulary interesting because of Keeno.io analytics integration.

An API Aggregation story out of Microsoft:

• Microsoft announces preview for unified API endpoint for data in Office apps - Interesting because of the unified approach. Taking note.

When it comes to API Analytics specifically:

• Success vs. Failure - The Importance of API Metrics - Metrics are definitely an important layer to API operations. 
• Improved Varnish Custom Statistics - now with UI - Cracking open the traffic that flows through the pipes, from Varnish. 
• Introducing Email Analytics - I use Gumroad, so taking note, but also email analytics is interesting. 
• Two Years of xAPI - Keeping track on their progress. Interesting platform, and curious to see the potential.

Some interesting API Cache release:

• Varnish Cache Plus 4.0.3r2 released - Caching from Varnish. Something more API providers should tackle.

An API Debugging related story:

• Superfeedr : Debugging Webhooks - Some insight on debugging Webhooks. Something that can be kind of blind.

An API Definition related tool I came across:

• RobWin/swagger2markup · GitHub - Tracking on as part of my Swagger work.

When it comes API Deployment, here is what I read:

• Scala vs. Node.js as a RESTful Backend Server - I have had heard good stuff about Scala, but many folks really love Node.js. 
• The Flowers Are Still Standing - I do not know much about Gradle, but the usage of RAML was interesting enough to note for me. 
• Using a REST API as an interface in your app with OWIN Self Host - Do not know anything about OWIN, but interesting approach to read through.

Facebook dominating the API Deprecation news:

• Facebook Retires Graph API V1 Tomorrow, Auto Upgrades Begin - The deprecation over at Facebook.
• Sunset of v201403 of the DFP API - Google deprecating some APIs.

A single API Design tip:

• Understand about DELETE Verb in Web API RESTful Services using data from both Request Body as well as Uri - Some HTTP verb lessons.

Insight into API Discovery:

• Monitoring and Service Discovery - Interesting insight about monitoring and discovery from Mandrill.

The ever popular API Economy:

• 6 Categories that Make up the API Economy - I found the story a little jumbled, but some good insights nonetheless.

The API Events news:

• Microsoft API Strategy Headlines Build Developer Conference - Developer conferences with a heavy API influence. 
• I Will See You In Barcelona Next Week For APIDays Mediterranea · - Catch me in Barcelona this week at APIDays. I will see you there. 
• SpeedHack Berlin 2015 - Cronofy - Thouts on SpeedHack in Berlin from Cronofy. 
• APIStrat and APIDays Berlin - The Web of APIs Grows! - Recap from 3Scale about the conference. 
• APIDays Berlin & APIStrat Europe - Wrapup from Lateral. I am now playing with them as part of my curation system. 
• Thank You Berlin For Helping Make APIDaysBerlin / APIStrat Europe So Amazing! · - My quick thoughts on Berlin.

Big API Management news this last week:

• Documentation Update: New How-Tos & Java Library - Some changes to the API portal over at Genability. 
• Kong - Open-Source API Management Layer - Another big open source API management release. 
• Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform | TechCrunch - The coverage from from Techcrunch on the release out of Mashape. 
• Akana Extends API Management to Microsoft Azure - Akana providing support on the Azure platform. Azure has their own from the Apiphany acquisition, but more the merrier. 
• How API management helps CDOs bridge the digital transformation gap - I guess CDO is a movement, I keep hearing more and more about the role. 
• Mashape Unleashes Kong as Open Source API Management Platform - And the requisite PW coverage of Kong! 
• Policy Expressions in Azure API Management - Orchestration via policies via Azure. 
• We have a changelog! - Everyone should have a changelog.

Some of the API Monetization areas I payed attention to:

• What AWS Revenues Mean for Public Cloud and OpenStack More Generally - Interesting because of cloud conversation, but also because AWS is model for other APIs too. 
• Boost Your Mobile Ad Revenue on Your Amazon Apps with AppLovin - I guess this is more about AWS showcasing their devs, but I will also be taking a look at AppLovin to see how the monetization is applied. 
• 3.9 Release Notes: Pay-as-you-Go IDE - Some monetization shifts over at the cloud IDE Codenvy.

When it came to API Monitoring:

• Reporting Just Got Automated: Save Time with the New Daily API Performance Report - New offerings from over at Runscope. 
• Monitoring and Service Discovery - Interesting insight about monitoring and discovery from Mandrill.

The ever growing weekly API News:

• Weekly API.Report For April 27th, 2015 - Last weeks report. 
• Civic Awesome: Open Data in the News for the Week of April 27, 2015 - The continued civic awesome from Socrata. 
• This week in API land, Berlin edition - The weekly news from Restlet 
• AWS Week in Review – April 20, 2015 - AWS weekly report.

On API Performance:

• Reporting Just Got Automated: Save Time with the New Daily API Performance Report - New offerings from over at Runscope.

Let's talk about API Security:

• API Security Deep Dive (webcast & podcast) - An API security podcast I am tuning into from Apigee. 
• SendGrid infosec chief eats humble pie, admits email service hacked - Bad news from over at SendGrid. Not good to hear. Glad they shared publicly.

An interesting take on API Stability committments:

• Tip of the week: Versioning your SLA policies - I like the idea of versioning SLA, adding to my SLA building blocks.

SmartBear moving forward the API Testing conversation:

• SmartBear Announces Secure Pro for Security Testing of Backend APIs - Smartbear is pushing things forward on the security front.

Managing your Application development:

• How to use custom metadata types to save years of development on app configurations - Just trying to understand how SalesForce metadata is being applied.

A look at Architecture:

• Why We Chose Laravel for Building DreamFactory 2.0 - I have been learning more about Laravel, and interesting to learn from DreamFactory.

The Artificial Intelligence buzz from the week:

• Microsoft Guess Your Age Site Proves Fallible, Misses Opportunities - Kind of a shit show, this whole thing, somewhat entertaining, but what made it go into the report is they are asking for developers to improve on the API itself. A novel concept.

On the Audio front:

• Podcasting on SoundCloud: Tell stories. Upload. Share. - I am looking at this for handling more of the audio side of my operations, and considering a more podcast presence.

Several items of Authentication to discuss:

• Announcing the Auth0 Open Source Single-Sign-On Dashboard - A new single sign-on dashboard from Auth0. Keeping track of for my user account management. 
• API Keys - SendGrid Documentation - Found myself looking at SendGrid's approach to keys. 
• Auth0 Europe Launches - Auth0 making international moves, into EU. 
• New – Glacier Vault Access Policies - I am trying to better understand these new AWS data offerings, and the access policies is interesting layer.

APIs in our Automobiles:

• TomTom MyDrive allows you to plan your trip from your phone and send it to the car - I guess this is beginning of us programming are cars to do what we want. 
• New Tech to Watch: Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection - Yeah, something a little disturbing to watch.

The slow moving world of Banking:

• API Initiatives at Banks Held Back by Bureaucracy, Survey Shows - I think this is something that will hold back the enterprise, across many business sectors. They are jus too big. 
• An open standard API could revolutionize the banking industry - Another look at the leadership in banking coming out of UK. 
• Corporate Banking is mostly Traditional Fintech but disruption is coming via Blockchain - Just keeping an eye on because of blockchain aspect, and the potential for change. 

APIs in our Browsers:

• Microsoft's Edge browser can steal Chrome and Firefox extensions - An interesting concept, something I'd like to see standardize. 
• W3C Publishes Updated Draft for Clipboard APIs and Events - The API conversation, from the world of browser.

Accessing valuable Business information:

• The SEC API by Kimono - A cool tool out of Kimono, trying to tame the crazy world of SEC data. 
• Owler Releases New APIs to Expose Startup Business Data - Adding Owler to my stack, trying to better understand the data they are releasing. 
• Unlocking SEC data with kimono’s SEC API - Kimonos story behind their release.

The Business of APIs:

• 6 ways to get a grip on the API economy - Always gotta sell the API Economy. 
• Beyond Decoupling: The Inherent Virtues of an API - I thought it was a good sell on the reasons for APIs. 
• How APIs Are Disrupting The Way We Think - I am not of fan of the term disruption, but good thoughts in there regardless. 
• Mastering Digital Channels Through APIs - It is definitely all about master the digital channels.

Looking for an API Career:

• API Engineer at Rdio in San Francisco Bay Area - Job | LinkedIn - Would be a cool gig for the right person. 
• Business System Analyst - If you are a business analyst you better get API literate. 
• Sr. Product Marketing Manager – Luna Portal & {open} API’s Job - A pretty cool gig, probably get to see some cool integrations.

A new API Certification program:

• Announcing the Evernote Certified Developer Program - I will be doing a round of certification programs, trying to better understand as a potential API building blocks.

Some of the movers when it comes to City Government:

• The Queen City Ascends Ohio’s Local Data Throne - Welcome on board Cincinnati. Good to see you getting in the game. Thanks Socrata for the hard work you do.
• Where does community organizing end and civic tech begin? - More wisdom from the Smart Chicago Collaborative. 
• Issues · mheadd/communitydata.io · GitHub - I am going to see where I can get involved to help Mark. You should too! He's rocking it. 
• The Future of Performance Management - Lessons from those who have been at it a while. 
• Detroit drives toward open data - More news about about the hard work going on in Detroit. 
• How New Orleans, Louisville, and San Francisco Are Using Open Data to Solve Problems - News from across the city open data landscape.

The world of Cloud Computing:

• GitHub Enterprise comes to Microsoft Azure, GitHub launches Visual Studio 2015 integrations - VentureBeat covering the IDE and cloud stuff coming out of Microsoft. 
• Microsoft Azure gets GitHub Enterprise support - A look from the NextWeb just at the Github support at Azure. 
• Introducing Session Affinity - This was an interesting addition to Heroku. 
• New – AstroCompute in the Cloud Grants Program - I am keeping track of funding opportunities when it comes to data and compute in the cloud.

In the Code space:

• The CodeProject API - Part 1 - The CodeProject launching their own API, with the story behind.

Make sense that Commerce is going mobile:

• 29% of US e-commerce transactions now mobile - I am buying more and more on my mobile phone. Some interesting numbers.

The Container discussions I'm following:

• DockerWorker Unplugged - Iron.io knows their stuff when it comes to containers and orchestration. 
• Docker Networking takes a step in the right direction - Some architectural learnings from Docker. 
• Docker Tutorial 7 – Dockerfile (Part 2) - Part seven in the ongoing series about Docker. 
• Hybrid Deployment of Docker Containers using IBM UrbanCode Deploy - Docker work from IBM 
• Integrating Splunk with Docker, CoreOS, and JournalD
• Docker containers monitoring - More about the container than APIs, but I'm adding to my knowledge of monitoring APIs in containers. 
• Building on Kubernetes: Bringing Google-Scale Container Orchestration and Management to the Enterprise - Redhat hedging their bets with investment into what is going on at Google when it comes to containers. 
• Run Docker Apps Locally Using the Elastic Beanstalk (EB) CLI - I'm interested in learning about running Docker locally. 
• Try on Desktop Button for Docker Hub - Push button deployment of Docker containes locally.

I guess this is Content, kind of at a loss:

• Google Adds 70 Apps to Google Now Offering - Sometimes I just don't have the brainpower to understand all the API offerings I cover. Trying to grasp what Google Now empowers.

Cook Count continuing to dominate the County Government news:

• Cook County Garners State Rebates from its Energy Efficiency Projects - Energy news, and approaches from Cook County. 
• The Cook County Situation Report - The regular situation report out of Cook County. I need to branch out and find other counties doing similar things.

Look at Credentials and potential in API space:

• Open Badges spec v1.1 Release - Open Badges is important as certification and accreditation, and would like to see more application in the world of APIs. I saw some news they are using JSON-LD this week, so I am sure I will cover next week.

The API gateway drug--CSV:

• A Robust CSV Reader - A CSV tool I'm adding to my stack.

Looking at Data:

• A Robust CSV Reader - A CSV tool I'm adding to my stack. 
• The Data Science Ecosystem - I always log these types of roundup, so when I'm digging in deeper I have the information. 
• Much of the world is deprived of poverty data. Let’s fix this. - Important work from the World Bank. 
• 3 Data Sources To Help You Build Customer Personas - Personally I am not a big fan of surveys, but the other 2 sources I use. 
• It’s YOUR Mobile Data! How to Take Control of It and Put it to Work ~ Part 2 - You don't see many claims that it is your data, so I'm tracking on it to use in my own arguments. 
• New – Glacier Vault Access Policies - I am trying to better understand these new AWS data offerings, and the access policies is interesting layer.

Splicing off specific Data Ownership stories:

• Your medical data: You don’t own it, but you can have it - I should put this under reclaim, but going to label as data ownership for now. 
• It’s YOUR Mobile Data! How to Take Control of It and Put it to Work ~ Part 2 - You don't see many claims that it is your data, so I'm tracking on it to use in my own arguments.

A Database story:

• Full-Text Search is now available for preview in Azure SQL Database - New features for database out of Azure.

Remember the Desktop?

• Timeline Reminder: Plans to Support Your QuickBooks Desktop Customers - A look at the transition from desktop to web based applications at Intuit.

Some new Disease information APIs I'm profiling:

• CDC Content - Content APIs form CDC, pretty interesting. 
• Data | Center for Disease Control - In addition to the content, the data out of CDC. 
• Public Health Media Library - And some media too.

Let's please keep talking about Diversity:

• Meet the Inspire grantees working to increase gender diversity on Wikimedia - A look at Wikimedia trying to address some of the diversity issues on the platform. 
• How many women edit Wikipedia? - Results of the survey that introduced their grant program. 
• Gender Gap Grader API Enables Gender Data Revolution - An important discussion that happened at API Days Berlin. 
• You can finally choose to play as a girl in Minecraft - Disturbing look at gender in gaming. Can't believe this is just happening.

Couple of worthy Drone blips:

• Dronebase - A new Drone platform I'm looking at referred by Union Square Ventures. 
• Significant Advances in the Consumer Drone Market - Some advancement in the consumer side of Drones.

Seems like I'm seeing the darkside of Education more and more, why is that? Hmmmm.....

• Franchising a Student Digital Privacy Law - I guess this is one way to get things to spread. 
• HP rolls out new campus networking solutions for BYOD era - An interesting approach to networking on campus, with an API touch. 
• Online Test-Takers Feel Anti-Cheating Softwares Uneasy Glare - I came across this through a Bruce Schneier reference, and agree it is an increasing area of surveillance that you'll see elsewhere in here, and Audrey and I are tracking on. 
• The Case for Audio Monitoring on School Buses - Another disturbing area of surveillance we are introducing for students. 
• Two Years of xAPI - Keeping track on their progress. Interesting platform, and curious to see the potential.

The Embeddable stories from last week:

• Creating Lightning Components: The Bundle as Scaffolding - More on lightning components out of SalesForce. 
• There Are Now 800,000 Reasons To Share NPR Audio On Your Site : This Is NPR : NPR - NPR realizing the power of making things embeddable from their media APIs.

A look at Energy in Cook County:

• Cook County Garners State Rebates from its Energy Efficiency Projects - Energy news, and approaches from Cook County.

Some Environment items:

• Web Services | Envirofacts - This floated up on my list because I am talking with them about Swagger, and I will create a Swagger definition for them. 
• Data Tells a Story: the dangers of air pollution, too much TV, and sitting for too long - Data does tell a story. More health and environment, but interesting takes on importance of telling these stories.

A smaller Federal Government category this week:

• Data | Center for Disease Control - In addition to the content, the data out of CDC. 
• Web Services | Envirofacts - This floated up on my list because I am talking with them about Swagger, and I will create a Swagger definition for them. 
• State-Data-Census/census.csv at master · opendata/State-Data-Census · GitHub - interesting tooling coming out of Census.

Tradier dominating Financial:

• Tradier: Brokerage API "On Steroids" (ETFC,AMTD,GOOGL,GOOG,ATHN.IBM,AM... - Keeping an on on Tradier. 
• Tradier Expands Brokerage API for Digital Investment Advisors - Guessing this is part of larger PR campaign, but tracking on regardless.

The wonderful world of Gaming:

• Hello Minecraft modders! Visual Studio <3s Minecraft - One take I think on why Microsoft bought Minecraft, so they could get kids into coding (on Visual Studio). 
• Ubisoft Integrates Splunk in Gaming API Management Strategy - I just don't know why gaming industry isn't into APIs more, but I think it is slowly changing. 
• Teaching kids how to code with Minecraft - I do not think this is related to what I said about why Microsoft bought Minecraft, but definitely shadows what I said. 
• You can finally choose to play as a girl in Minecraft - Disturbing look at gender in gaming.

A single Government item to look at:

• These Are the Tech Trends Government Might Not Be Ready For - I do not think they are ready for a lot of what is going on, but doesn't mean we shouldn't expose them.

Lot of Hackathon news:

• HACKADAY DEVELOPERS - Resources for hackathon developers 
• Hackaday Events: NY, LA, SF, LA - The events they are doing across the US. 
• Get the Most Out of Your Next Hackathon - Insight from IBM learned from their hackathon efforts. 
• DataFest Competition Brings Big Data to College Students - More hackathon efforts on campus. 
• Behind the Wheel: A More Efficient Vehicle - This is one of the best hackathon series I've seen recently. 
• Why you should be entering Hackathons - Make sure and do your homework on the events, but yes, you should be supporting them. 
• 9 Keys to Hackathon Success with IBM Watson and Alchemy API’s - More wisdom on hackathons out of IBM. 
• A new kind of #FlashHacks event: Mapping corporate networks - A great series coming out of OpenCorporates, please support! 
• GSA to Host Data-Infused Hackathon - Some of these gov hackathons can be extremely valuable. Tracking on them.

My favoriate area of Hacker Storytelling:

• The state of storytelling in the internet age - I wish they had mentioned Gigaom, but regardless t is good to see this type of reflection. 
• 18F: A Great Place to Write - Some super creative storytelling coming from some of my favorite people in the US Government.

The Healthcare discussions:

• Meet the MIT student who filmed his own brain surgery - Ok, this is just trippy, but very cool, brave, and guess what? An API was involved! 
• CDC Content - Content APIs form CDC, pretty interesting. 
• Public Health Media Library - And some media too. 
• Data Tells a Story: the dangers of air pollution, too much TV, and sitting for too long - Data does tell a story. More health and environment, but interesting takes on importance of telling these stories. 
• Drchrono-QueueDr Shows How APIs Will Transform Healthcare - Taking note, and will be adding to my healthcare stack for further monitoring. 
• Wearables and Communications Drive New Medical - I'm thinking that healthcare is definitely one area wearables will get some traction. many other areas will fail. 
• A Day in the Life of a Stolen Healthcare Record - An interesting look at data and security in the healthcare space. 
• Coexistence of FHIR, C-CDA Seen Easing Interoperability Problems - Part of my continued research in FHIR, to better understand and help facilitate interoperability. 
• GamingTechLaw Data protection issues and eHealth - More look at the increasing conversation around healthcare, data, and privacy and ownership. 
• Your medical data: You don’t own it, but you can have it - I should put this under reclaim, but going to label as data ownership for now. 
• How Government Healthcare Agencies Should Approach Their Vulnerabilities - More security information out of Splunk, with a focus on healthcare. 
• Open Knowledge Ireland Calls for Hospital Waiting List “Open Data” - An interesting area to look at with open data. Would like to see replicated in US, and other places.

I Love History:

• The process of invention: Now and then - More exploration in the patent space for me, trying do understand how we got here. 
• The History of Lockpicking - Cool history of one of the main tenants of our physical security world.

On the Home front:

• An IoT Doorbell You’ll Never Miss - Some IoT goodies.

Twilio rocking the How-To's, as usual:

• Receive Twitter Notifications by SMS with EventMachine and the Twitter Streaming API (Send and Receive Tweets Using SMS with Twilio Part 3) - More how-to references for SMS and Twitter out of Twilio.

The hot Hypermedia debate:

• Hypermedia: don't bother - An interesting skeptical view of hypermedia. The result of hypermedia conversation at #apisberlin this last week, and I recommended he summarize in post. i'm still working on my thoughts on all of it. 
• The Movement Towards Hypermedia APIs – Is it Happening? - More questions, about whether hypermedia is a thing. 
• Overview of JSON Hypermedia Link Formats / Articles / dracoblue.net - I need to finish my own comprehensive guide to media types, and relevant link relations. 
• Why You Shouldn't Dismiss Hypermedia in Your API Design - More thoughts out of PW. 
• How The Guardian is Approaching Hypermedia Based API Infrastructure - Coverage of the hypermedia discussion at #APIsBerlin the last week. The Guardian is doing some very interesting things.

The growing area of IDE and APIs:

• Announcing the GitHub Extension for Visual Studio - All in on Github for the enterprise. Smart moves. 
• GitHub Enterprise comes to Microsoft Azure, GitHub launches Visual Studio 2015 integrations - VentureBeat covering the IDE and cloud stuff coming out of Microsoft. 
• Hello Minecraft modders! Visual Studio <3s Minecraft - One take I think on why Microsoft bought Minecraft, so they could get kids into coding (on Visual Studio). 
• Microsoft’s cross-platform Visual Studio Code app is based on technology from Github’s Atom editor - Interesting merging of tech. I'm playing with how to customize Atom editor too for possible API IDE usage. 
• 3.9 Release Notes: Pay-as-you-Go IDE - Some monetization shifts over at the cloud IDE Codenvy.

Some International movement:

• Auth0 Europe Launches - Auth0 making international moves, into EU.

Talking Internet of Things:

• An IoT Doorbell You’ll Never Miss - Some IoT goodies. 
• Konekt Dash Kickstarter Update: It’s done! We’ve been funded! - I might start tracking on funding of IoT this way. See which devices use this approach, and the success / failure of them. 
• Myfox API Allows Integration With Home Security Products - I have been tracking on Myfox, so adding to my queue of stories. 
• RealTimeWeekly | The four horsemen of the IoT Trough - A look at the bigger IoT picture, good and bad.

Import Legal news:

• Aaron’s Law Reintroduced: CFAA Didn’t Fix Itself | Electronic Frontier Foundation - I sure hope we can fix this shit. This type of intimidation will break most people it is inflicted on.

Some talk of Libraries:

• The Digital Public Library of America Partners with President Obama to Provide Children with Greater Access to Ebooks - A pretty big partnership for DPLA. 
• Baltimore libraries stay open to provide community support - We need to fund our libraries. Who else does this??

Talkin gabout Location:

• Displaying Live Location Data with JavaScript and MapBox - Another real-time goodie from PubNub 
• Broadcasting Geolocation Data with HTML5 Location Services - More expansion of same topic.

An interesting Logging item from Google:

• Take your logs data to new places with streaming export to Cloud Pub/Sub - An interesting approach to logging from Google.

Looking at Mapping:

• How Google Maps API Added Value To A Salesforce Installation - Mapping is an important component to many platforms. 
• Displaying Live Location Data with JavaScript and MapBox - Another real-time goodie from PubNub 
• Simpler OpenStreetMap Data Exchange Formats - Learning more about PBF. Simpler standards are always good. 
• Guiding mapping priorities in Nepal with seismological data - Important mapping approaches out of Mapbox.

Trying to understand the importance of Metadata:

• Salesforce Metadata API – Objects, Record Types and Metadata API Tips - Metadata approaches from SalesForce. Just trying to understand their approaches, and what I can apply to other areas of API operation.

Two Microservices discussions I read:

• ZStack, an Infrastructure Software with an In-Process Microservices Architecture - Some more microservices learnings. 
• Virtual Academy: Exploring Microservice Architecture - And microservices learnings from the Microsoft camp.

Thought from the Mobile space:

• Feature 115: Creating Server-Side Business Logic for User Service API with Console - Trying to understand how the logic is applied. Is it hypermedia like? 
• Apple opens beta testing of analytics tool for iOS app developers - I am not sure why companies are rolling there own analytics with the wealth of solutions out there, but I guess Apple is exception to rule.
• Box for Windows 10: A Seamless Experience on Any Device - Box continued love for Microsoft platform. 
• Salesforce Mobile SDK for Windows is ready for Microsoft Developers - And some Microsoft love from SalesForce. 
• HP rolls out new campus networking solutions for BYOD era - An interesting approach to networking on campus, with an API touch. 
• 29% of US e-commerce transactions now mobile - I am buying more and more on my mobile phone. Some interesting numbers.

Monitoring beyond just APIs:

• Docker containers monitoring - More about the container than APIs, but I'm adding to my knowledge of monitoring APIs in containers.

A New API worth noting:

• The CodeProject API - Part 1 - The CodeProject launching their own API, with the story behind.

Love looking at Open Data:

• Open Access to Research Data – Timeline - A pretty valuable timeline of research data access. Spending time going through. 
• The API Briefing: Top Five Findings for API Developers from Pew Research Center - More coverage on last weeks Pew report on open data. 
• Issues · mheadd/communitydata.io · GitHub - I am going to see where I can get involved to help Mark. You should too! He's rocking it. 
• Utah’s Open Data Portal and the SGID - Utah is rocking the open data when it comes to mapping and GIS data. 
• Detroit drives toward open data - More news about about the hard work going on in Detroit. 
• Harnessing the uncovered opportunities of open data - Lots, and lots of opportunities on the open data front. Get involved. 
• Open Knowledge Ireland Calls for Hospital Waiting List “Open Data” - An interesting area to look at with open data. Would like to see replicated in US, and other places. 
• OpenGov Voices: Moving the food system forward with open data - Good to see open data being applied in this area. So much wrong with our food system, and we need to improve.

Important Open Source news:

• Kong - Open-Source API Management Layer - Another big open source API management release. 
• Mashape Open-Sources Its Kong API Management Platform | TechCrunch - The coverage from from Techcrunch on the release out of Mashape.

Looking Orchestration potential:

• Microsoft previews template deployments in Azure Resource Manager - Interested to learn more about how they are using templates to implement orchestration at the API management layer.

Always showcase your Partners:

• Goodway Group Partners with Factual to Provide Unparalleled Accuracy for Mobile Ad Targeting - The continued efforts out of Factual to validate mobile traffic. 
• Sabre Dev Studio Introduces Technology Partners - The travel providers partners. 
• The Digital Public Library of America Partners with President Obama to Provide Children with Greater Access to Ebooks - A pretty big partnership for DPLA. 
• Pinterest Launches API to Attract Brands - Pinterest is finallky getting on the API bandwagon. About time. 
• Factual Featured Partner: Glia - Taking a look at Glia. 
• Pinterest Intros Marketing Developer Partners Program & APIs - Good to see Pinterest realizing not just potential of APIs finally, but also the partner layer. 
• Pinterest Launches Marketing Developer Partners Program - A view of the pinterest partners program from outside API space.

Keeping the Patent discussion going:

• Patent US7613835 - Generic API for synchronization - Google Patents - What a bullshit patent. 
• The process of invention: Now and then - More exploration in the patent space for me, trying do understand how we got here. 
• With Patent Litigation Surging, Creators Turn to Washington for Help - i do not have much hope for change with this latest round, but is turning up heat I guess ?? 
• Google Public Policy Blog: Announcing the Patent Purchase Promotion - I find it hard to believe this is all good. I have defended Google on the patent front, but I just can't entire believe their motivations are good. 
• Patent US20110264961 - System and method to test executable instructions - Google Patents - An API testing patent I came across that I think impacts many API providers that already exist. 
• Google launches Patent Purchase Promotion program - Another take on the Google Patent Purchase program.

The Payment space:

• Western Union Will Give Ripple a Chance - I am keeping an eye on all the mainstream movements towards nextgen payments. 
• Proximity Payments – Beacon Technology For Retailers - Trippy beacon implementation on the retail front.

Building Platforms between API providers:

• How Google Maps API Added Value To A Salesforce Installation - Mapping is an important component to many platforms. 
• NetSuite API Integration: CRM and ERP through a REST API - Some integration goodies for the enterprise and larger businesses. 
• QuickBooks(Intuit) Payment Gateway for OpenCart (OpenCart) - An accounting integration for OpenCart on CodeCanyon. Slowly racking these up, and will look at some point what is published to CodeCanyon over time. A lot of it is sponsored, you can tell, but some is organic. 
• V2 of Facebook’s Graph API: What to expect on Netvibes dashboards - Interesting to hear the perspective on v2 of Graph API from a major integrator.
• ChatGrape & Box - Chat at the document level. Glad to see it is more about showcasing existing integrations rather than box doing themselves. 
• Indexing Data from Salesforce Objects in Splunk - Platform level indexing, from Splunk. 
• Box Integration for Slack - More showcase from Box, on existing platform integrations. Important.

Some Podcast related items:

• Podcasting on SoundCloud: Tell stories. Upload. Share. - I am looking at this for handling more of the audio side of my operations, and considering a more podcast presence.
• 540-15 Episode #2 - YouTube - A podcast I'm tuning into from my friends at 540. If you are involved in government procurement listen to this show.

The important Policing category:

• Baltimore's open (but not current) police data - An important look at Baltimores policing data. 
• The benefits of criminal justice data: Beyond policing - More important discussion around policing and criminal justice data. i wish I had more time.

From the Politics of APIs:

• The Politics of Twitter Data - An interesting research paper on Twitter ecosystem. 
• Twitter’s multi-billion dollar mistake happened five years ago - I totally agree. While Twitter API will long continue to be valuable, the trust is gone, and most likely impossible to get back after the shitty tone they took 2010 - 2012. It was more the tone and communication, than what they did in my opinion. 
• Facebook New API Version Causes Worry To App Developers - I found this take interesting. Not sure I agree with developers on this one. Seems like a potential privacy hole to me. 
• Facebook shuts down friends data API to generate more trust among users - And another take on the deprecation of friends data API.

Let's always make sure Privacy is front and center:

• White House backs student data privacy bill - Keeping an eye on this student data privacy bill. 
• BlazeMeter Adds Mobile Recorder for Application Testing - I'm wondering what privacy and surveillance implications are present, as we work to test more. I guess if it is used in controlled environments it is a good thing. 
• How to Make Sure Your Marketing Strategy is Privacy-Compliant - An important discuss at the messaging layer. 
• Private.me API Opens Data Privacy Platform for Businesses - I am looking to aggregate these security, privacy, and other APIs that are being offered to augment platform operations. 
• Franchising a Student Digital Privacy Law - I guess this is one way to get things to spread. 
• Three Common Mistakes Companies Make with Their Privacy Policies - The continued wisdom coming out of DataSift. 
• GamingTechLaw Data protection issues and eHealth - More look at the increasing conversation around healthcare, data, and privacy and ownership. 
• Facebook Kills Friends Data API Over User Privacy Concerns - PW take on the Facebook deprecation. 
• New Tech to Watch: Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection - Yeah, something a little disturbing to watch.

APIs in Real-Time:

• Google Maps Geolocation Tracking in Realtime with JavaScript - Pubnub rules in the real-time stories. 
• Announcing The Official Golang Pusher Library - A real-time GoLang library out of Pusher. 
• The Telco industry: how real time data is the future - An interesting look at the importance of real-time for the telco space.

Make sure you Reclaim Your Domain:

• Password Management Ground Zero for Digital Literacy | bavatuesdays - So true. So important. Everyone, both businesses and individuals should be doing this. It has done wonders for me understanding my world. 
• It’s YOUR Mobile Data! How to Take Control of It and Put it to Work ~ Part 2 - You don't see many claims that it is your data, so I'm tracking on it to use in my own arguments.

Keeping an eye on Regulation:

• White Paper: Questions to Guide Regulatory Policy Development - A paper I'm reading in the area of regulation.

Interest Research item:

• Open Access to Research Data – Timeline - A pretty valuable timeline of research data access. Spending time going through.

Rogue APIs always catch my eye:

• Google Images - Unofficial API (Images and Media) - An interesting approach to rogue api development.

Scraping all the things:

• Generate high quality potential candidate leads - I do similar things for general profiling, but interesting to learn a use for potential talent acquisition. 
• The SEC API by Kimono - A cool tool out of Kimono, trying to tame the crazy world of SEC data.

Two SDK nuggets:

• Salesforce Mobile SDK for Windows is ready for Microsoft Developers - And some Microsoft love from SalesForce. 
• Easy client SDK and server skeleton generation for your APIs - Automated SDK and server skeleton from APIs deployed via Restlet.

From Search category:

• Introduction to Elasticsearch scripting - Going to take a look at how they do this. QBox is definitely a leader when it comes to ElasticSearch usage. 
• Full-Text Search is now available for preview in Azure SQL Database - New features for database out of Azure.

Continuing look at Security:

• Appery.io Adds MetaCert Security API to App Building Platform - Important steps from Appery.io 
• SIGNIFICANT DATA BREACHES – APRIL 2015 - Adding to my list of security breaches. 
• Threat Intelligence Collections in Enterprise Security 3.3 - Splunk is really stepping up to own the area of security intelligence. 
• A Day in the Life of a Stolen Healthcare Record - An interesting look at data and security in the healthcare space. 
• The Case for Audio Monitoring on School Buses - Another disturbing area of surveillance we are introducing for students. 
• SendGrid infosec chief eats humble pie, admits email service hacked - Bad news from over at SendGrid. Not good to hear. Glad they shared publicly. 
• Nice Essay on Security Snake Oil - Such an important aspect of all the FUD we are exposed to. 
• New Tech to Watch: Automated Vehicle Occupancy Detection - Yeah, something a little disturbing to watch. 
• How Government Healthcare Agencies Should Approach Their Vulnerabilities - More security information out of Splunk, with a focus on healthcare. 
• The History of Lockpicking - Cool history of one of the main tenants of our physical security world.

A single Sensor related item:

• Proximity Payments – Beacon Technology For Retailers - Trippy beacon implementation on the retail front.

Some Single Page Applications (SPA) talk from SalesForce:

• Single Page Survey Application with Visualforce, jQueryMobile and Knockout - SalesForce is definitely a leading player in the realm of SPA + API. They publish a number of valuable resources in the area.

A Slide I felt worth noting:

• Documenting Your API - Keeping track of for my master list of resources.

How the fuck did an SOA story get in here? Must be slipping:

• Fifteen Years of Service-Oriented Architecture at Credit Suisse - Fifteen years is a long time. I'm sure there are good lessons here.

Looking at Software Defined Networking (SDN):

• Cisco Open SDN - Sandbox Get Started - SDN goodies from Cisco. Sandboxes are good! 
• HP switches fortify campus SDNs - More on the HP SDN on campus. 
• HP rolls out new campus networking solutions for BYOD era - An interesting approach to networking on campus, with an API touch.

A single Spreadsheet related item:

• census-api/API.md at master · censusreporter/census-api · GitHub - An interesting tool from Census. I should do a roundup of the work their. They have some really smart data folks there.

Looking at State Government:

• Utah’s Open Data Portal and the SGID - Utah is rocking the open data when it comes to mapping and GIS data.

Providing Support items:

• Recommending Stack Overflow Questions with Lateral - Lateral referencing resources on Stack Overflow. 
• Making sense of customer feedback - Inside Intercom - More general support, but still applicable to API operations.

Watching the area of Surveillance:

• Online Test-Takers Feel Anti-Cheating Softwares Uneasy Glare - I came across this through a Bruce Schneier reference, and agree it is an increasing area of surveillance that you'll see elsewhere in here, and Audrey and I are tracking on. 
• The Case for Audio Monitoring on School Buses - Another disturbing area of surveillance we are introducing for students.

A Talk I'm doing in May:

• The Technology, Business, and Politics of APIs Via A Community Driven API Life Cycle · - A talk I gave at 3Scale, and will evolve for API Days Mediteranea and Gluecon this month.

Television related API news:

• Cablevision offers tool for targeted ad campaigns - Advertising on Cable using APIs...interesting.

Some Testing news:

• BlazeMeter Adds Mobile Recorder for Application Testing - I'm wondering what privacy and surveillance implications are present, as we work to test more. I guess if it is used in controlled environments it is a good thing.

The important area of Translation:

• Build A Translation REST API With Watson, Node-RED, and Bluemix - Hmmm. build your own translation API. Wonder what it would cost to maintain, in relation to what value you could generate.

Looking at Transparency:

• Slack and Transparency - Slack getting in on the transparency reporting game. 
• Slack: We haven’t received a single government data request - I'm sure this won't last. 
• One critical transparency flaw in the new USA FREEDOM Act - Troubling. Wish we could more of a handle on this.

Pushing forward the Transportation sector:

• Around the World in 12 Legs - Cool tech, with API usage to make possible. 
• The Case for Audio Monitoring on School Buses - Another disturbing area of surveillance we are introducing for students. 
• Decisiv Announces New Integration With FleetNet America - A roadside API implementation.

Visualization story out of 18F:

• The Intersection of Art and Technology - More goodness from 18F. They see the world of data and tech, very much like I do. Importance lens to posses.

Voice and APIs will continue to be more important:

• The Alexa voice assistant can now escape Amazon’s walled garden - Watching Amazon closely on this front. I'm curious if they can surpass Siri, but being more open for developers.

Kind of watching the area of Wearables:

• Microsoft releases Band SDK to developers - Microsoft opening up the SDK. 
• Wearables and Communications Drive New Medical - I'm thinking that healthcare is definitely one area wearables will get some traction. many other areas will fail. 
• Google Releases New Android Wear APIs in Play Services 7.3 - And some movement from Google too.

A single Weather item:

• City Weather for WordPress (Widgets) - Another simple Weather integration for WordPress.

Looking at Webhooks:

• Superfeedr : Debugging Webhooks - Some insight on debugging Webhooks. Something that can be kind of blind. 
• jvandemo/contentful-webhook-server · GitHub - Another Webhook tool I'm adding to the stack.

That concludes my report on what I read last week across the API space. I'm still working on pulling together a summary e-newsletter version, allowing people to get an executive summary of what I thought was important from the week--I am hoping it will be available next week. I'm also going to auto-generate some visualizations, and summary counts for each week. I'd like to see a tag cloud, and overall counts to help me understand the scope of news I cover each week.

If you know of something I missed, feel free to email or tweet at me, and make sure I know about your company, and have a link to your blog RSS. If you don't tell the story and share, the world will never know it happened.

It is a good time to be tracking on the API space--lots going on!

Updated November 27, 2015: Links were updated as part of switch from Swagger to OADF (READ MORE)