In eBay news: they have four new APIs on the way and have introduced new forums and a developer center for PayPal. Skype’s API is making inroads and as noted in this press release the Skype developer program now has 3,500 developers creating both software and hardware products (and they too have a series of [...]
SRC freedemographics.com, a provider of geographic business intelligence software announced this week the release of a new API: www.FreeDemographics.com/api. A “dashup” as they call it:
Data services readily available to add to developer mashups. The FreeDemographics API lets developers embed business intelligence content including, market, consumer and corporate data directly into a website with JavaScript. As [...]
Some interesting API news from Microsoft this week: MSDN, Microsoft’s venerable, and quite large, documentation database now has an API: the Microsoft/TechNet Publishing System (MTPS) Content Services. From MSDN’s Craig Andera:
In brief, the MTPS Content Services are a set of web services for exposing the content in MTPS. MTPS is the application I helped write [...]
In response to the latest Google Maps news the team at Yahoo! have changed the licensing restrictions for their mapping API. Good news for developers:
…we have lifted many of the restrictions associated with the Yahoo! Maps APIs. Until today, the APIs were available only for non-commercial use unless you applied for an exception. The [...]
There’s a new entry in the Google’s growing “Enterprise” product line: Google Maps for Enterprise. Licensed, supported mapping for both behind the firewall and external, commercial use. Even comes with a service level agreement (SLA). How much? Starts at $10,000. Announced yesterday, at their Google Geo Developer Day. From their site:
The speedy performance and ease [...]
Microsoft’s developer resource center for the quickly evolving Live Platform is now up at dev.live.com. Not a lot there yet but it bodes well for a more integrated approach on their part to developer support on the new platform.
One of the things that Microsoft has traditionally done as well as any vendor is developer support [...]
Last week We offered a free pass to O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference to a randomly selected reader who replied with ideas for mashups they’d most like to see or be most afraid to see. The most afraid to see struck a nerve, especially given the recent press about hackers and mashups.
Here’s a sampling of the [...]
There’s a new mashup contest in progress, this one from the folks at Talis, provider of library management systems to the UK and Ireland library marketplace. They have a fairly complete API which was just added to the ProgrammableWeb listings this week.
As for the contest, from their site:
For all those users of libraries who have [...]
Microsoft’s Live Expo team have announced the release of a beta API for Windows Live Expo. You can now access their classifieds listings via both SOAP and REST. [via Dare Obasanjo]
Just a quick pointer to this interesting writeup by Peter Nixey at Webkitchen about the design and architecture of his mashup Eventsites. Why is it interesting? Because his application uses no server-logic or database of its own, just pure AJAX and web-services. Serve-up a page with some HTML and JavaScript, fetch data from EVDB, Flickr, [...]
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