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John Musser, September 30th, 2007

We couldn’t keep making ProgrammableWeb the resource it is without the help of our sponsors and partners. A big thanks for their support.

Serena Software: Check-out the just announced Serena Mashup Composer. Designed to let you build business mashups in minutes.
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12 Social Bookmarking APIs

John Musser, September 28th, 2007
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Earlier this week Alex Iskold over at Read/WriteWeb took a good look at social bookmarking services but one of the things not covered in that piece, but of interest here, is just how many of the competitors in that space offer an API. How many? As of now we have 12 bookmarking APIs in our [...]


3 Mashup Contests End This Week

John Musser, September 27th, 2007

If you check our Mashup Contests Guide you’ll see there have been lots of new updates lately. Some contests have closed, others updated and a few are about to end. There are 6 contests underway at the moment with 3 of them ending them this week:

Tibco Ultimate Mashup Contest: You can see more [...]


Events on the Business of APIs

John Musser, September 26th, 2007

For those of you looking to learn more about the enterprise and business side of APIs and mashups here are two events coming-up you might want to attend.
The first, happening this Friday in San Francisco, is called Open Enterprise 2.0 Mashups: Expanding Customer Value Networks. This one day event has a full agenda of [...]


Best New Mashups: Digg and Adobe AIR

John Musser, September 25th, 2007

Just a quick roundup of some of the more interesting mashups added to our listings recently, one that lets you widgetize Digg and another that showcases Adobe AIR using Flickr and Yahoo services:

Use WeoCEO to manage your Amazon Web Services deployments on EC2 and S3.
flickAIR: Flickr Tool developed using Flickr and YahooMap REST APIs. This [...]


Win $100K in New Amazon Contest

John Musser, September 24th, 2007

In the latest, and perhaps largest, entry into the world of mashup compeitions comes the Amazon Web Services Start-up Challenge. The AWS team is “searching for the next hot start-up that is leveraging AWS to build its infrastructure and business”.
As the AWS team announced they will award a “first-place prize of $50,000 in cash, [...]


Google Advances JavaScript APIs

John Musser, September 21st, 2007

In a notable but understated move, Google announced yesterday the availability of the GData JavaScript Client Library for Calendar. While on the surface this may seem like just another wrapper for the Google Calendar API like the ones provided for PHP and Java it’s actually a lot more interesting. Why? Because it’s one of the [...]


19 Video APIs

John Musser, September 20th, 2007
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Online video is hot and so are online video APIs. We recently added the Vimeo API to our listings and this brings the total number of APIs at ProgrammableWeb to 19 (see them all here). The king of these is still the YouTube API but for developers there are lots of choices.


What Is a Platform?

John Musser, September 19th, 2007
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In an interesting, lenthy blog post, Marc Andreessen takes a look at Internet platforms and APIs:

One of the hottest of hot topics these days is the topic of Internet platforms, or platforms on the Internet. Web services APIs (application programming interfaces), web services protocols like REST and SOAP, the new Facebook platform, Amazon’s web services [...]


Never Miss an Exciting Game With This API

John Musser, September 18th, 2007

Here’s a novel API just added to our listings this week: RUWT: Are You Watching This?, a service designed for sports fans who never want to miss an exciting sporting event in progress. The idea is simple: get email or text alerts whenever “a game gets good” like a no-hitter in the seventh inning or [...]


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