There were a number of interesting sessions at yesterday’s Business of APIs Conference hosted by Mashery. Dave McClure, who previously oversaw the launch of the PayPal developer network, gave an engaging, to-the-point talk entitled “Successful Developer Programs”. If you’re running an API developer network or even thinking of running one, here’s a summary of good [...]
What do you get when combine the leading social networking API and the leading enterprise API? You get one our latest mashup entries: FaceForce. What is it? As they desribe “Faceforce Connector for the AppExchange complements traditional CRM data with dynamically updated personal data and photos. The seamless integration pulls critical Facebook profile information into [...]
Since it’s the end of the week, here’s a mindless fun mashup recently added to our listings that will help you kill some time: DiggKiller. A 2-D shooter game built with the Digg API. Kill the Diggs on enemy stories and collect comments for powerups.
Creator Kurt Margenau even gives you the source code for [...]
Microsoft made headlines earlier this year when they released Silverlight, their RIA compeitor to Adobe Flash. Since it’s so new we haven’t seen a lot of mashups built with it but did recently get this new entry Silverlight Photo Carousel, an interactive photo carousel displaying interesting photos using Silverlight and the Flickr API. You can [...]
In Tim O’Reilly’s keynote presentation yesterday at Graphing Social Patterns he highlighted some interesting metrics about Facebook applicatoins drawn from their just released report The Facebook Application Platform. You can get a good synopsis of this from Tim’s blog post and this chart showing the distribution of active users among the top 200 developers:
One of the most consistent ‘knocks’ against Web 2.0-style open APIs is the lack of a written and enforceable service level agreement (SLA). These agreements define a minimum level of service like 99.9% uptime and penalties to the provider if not met. Amazon, one of the clear innovators in this space, took a big step [...]
In a very lively forum thread over at Flickr there’s a discussion/debate about the Flickr API, data ownership, copyright, and mashups. In a nutshell, a Flickr member, Austen Haines, noticed that some of his photos were appearing in the mashup Adactio Elsewhere even though he had flagged them All Rights Reserved (ARR). The mashup developer, [...]
In this second and final installment of our mashup case study on Giveness, we pick-up from Part 1 and our conversation with founder Richard Waldvogel by digging into more details on REST vs. SOAP, caching and other mashup lessons learned.
Q: Do you find the Amazon or the ebay API easier to work with?
Getting our eBay [...]
A piece of the mashup puzzle that could lead to more interesting and useful applications has taken a step forward this week: the final draft of the OAuth specification is now available. What is it and why does it matter? Since there are already some very good explanations out there, here are the essentials drawn [...]
How can open APIs be used to help charitable causes? In this case study interview we speak with Richard Waldvogel, founder of Giveness, a social network for philanthropy that builds on open APIs like Amazon’s and eBay’s to enable people to support their favorite charities while they shop.
Q: Can you give us a bit of [...]
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