Foursquare has embraced the open maps movement. Russia’s biggest search engine integrates with the Topsy API. Plus: Disqus comments available in Gnip, Microsoft launches its own Webmaster Tools API and 21 new APIs.
Earlier this month Podio added Google Docs support. Now the collaboration platform has added another line to its file upload dialog. As we pointed out earlier, there’s plenty of room for further file integrations. There is also an opportunity for Podio to expand its Podio API to allow developers to do the work for them.
Users of the Buffer app and Buffer API can now schedule status updates to LinkedIn, in addition to Twitter and Facebook, from a single publishing interface. Buffer, the web-based service that allows its users to write tweets and status updates ahead of time and then schedule their posts throughout the day, has extended its service to include the professional networking platform LinkedIn.
Or should that headline have been A/B Testing Comes to Google App Engine API? Google’s PaaS has quietly been rolling out a release every month. In its second release of the year, the App Engine team has focussed not just on its usual fixes, but a series of changes for the Administration Console and a platform features that are bound to make other PaaS vendors sit up and take note: support for A/B Testing of your web application.
Our API directory now includes 134 security APIs. The newest is the Universign API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Google OpenID API. We list 8 Google OpenID mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of security APIs.
The New York Times is giving developers access to data that is even more real-time from its New York Times Campaign Finance API. Google added an API console for its Google Shopping Content API to provide easy access to error codes. Plus: a German hackathon with a twist, Google App Engine updates and 7 new APIs.
Our API directory now includes 134 travel APIs. The newest is the TakeABreak API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Kayak API. We list 12 Kayak mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of travel APIs.
Moving files around doesn’t seem like it should be as difficult as it sometimes is. I often feel trapped when I realize that the songs I added to my computer didn’t find their way to my phone, or the pictures I took at the beach still have not made it to my computer. For a long time I had accepted that this is how the world works and that I will have to live with it, but no longer must that be the case with all the storage APIs available. The Pogoplug API is the newest entrant to that group.
Zazzle is one of the most popular and largest online marketplaces for custom products with millions of unique product designs available. Users also have the ability to choose from over 50 product categories and create unique customized products from scratch. Many businesses are taking advantage of Zazzle’s customization technologies to sell business branded products on Zazzle.com. In addition, many businesses are successfully using the Zazzle API to commercialize their websites.
We list over 5000+ APIs now in our directory. The stakes for API Provider are much higher and one of the challenges that they face is to ensure that the first time developer experience with their API is positive and they receive support during this critical period when they actually try out the API. One of the key areas that API Providers can gain developer acceptance is via an area that is often neglected or just provided for the sake of it. The critical piece is called API documentation. This post contains tips from two companies that publish great documentation via the Twilio API and Parse API.
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