Over the weekend an interesting API was added to API database: one from 23, a photo sharing service. What’s notable is that their API is modeled after the popular Flickr API. They didn’t invent yet another incompatible API. Within minutes developers can port their applications from Flickr to 23. A very good, but quite rare, approach in the Web 2.0 API world: API near-compatibility.
More on this topic tomorrow.
Photo sharing service
Photo sharing service
©ProgrammableWeb.com 2009. All rights reserved.
Terms of Service | Privacy Policy
One Response to “23 and API Standards”
at 1:56 am
[...] 23 API is modeled after the Flickr API, with the objective of standardizing photo APIs and providing interoperability between photo sharing sites. Other popular photo APIs include the [...]