24 billion, that’s how many API calls have been served by Salesforce.com so far. This statistic along with others like 130 million transactions daily, 61,200 custom applications, and 750 AppExchange apps, were all highlight on stage today by CEO Marc Benioff who’s kicking-off “Tour de Fource”, the next phase of their Force.com services (for more [...]
We recently added this new API listing to the US government site USAspending.govwhich provides API access to budget data, but we didn’t notice a detail which one of our readers did: that there’s this somewhat intimidating, red-text warning on the homepage.
For the third time in as many weeks a third-party Facebook application is the subject of controversy. This time around it’s that Hasbro, the company behind Scrabble, wants to shut down the popular Facebook app Scrabulous.
600 web APIs. That’s how many different open web service APIs are now listed in our PW directory.
Do you like charts, statistics and graphs? Apparently lots of developers do given how quickly folks have taken to creating charting apps following last month’s release of the Google Chart API.
Last month when the popular social network Bebo launched their API they made headlines by being the first major platform to be compatible with the Facebook Platform. They initially launched with 40 select partners who had early access to the platform but at the time other developers had to wait for access. That changed yesterday [...]
The folks at Urban Mapping have just made the neighborhood lookup functions of their web service API free.
For the second time in a week a third-party Facebook app is the subject of controversy: this time it’s ePresident, an application for nominating the Facebook’s “worldwide President”.
In a promising sign for the future of data portability across platforms, earlier today DataPortability.org Workgroup announced that Google, Facebook, and Plaxo joined their initative.
At yesterday’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Yahoo announced the early preview of their Mobile Developer Platform.





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