Salesforce.com: 24 Billion API Calls So Far

John Musser, January 17th, 2008

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 [...]


USAspending.gov: You Will be Watched

John Musser, January 16th, 2008

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.


Hasbro Versus Scrabulous

John Musser, January 15th, 2008

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

John Musser, January 14th, 2008

1001Mashups600 web APIs. That’s how many different open web service APIs are now listed in our PW directory.


Google Chart Mashups: Love and Stats

John Musser, January 11th, 2008

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.


Bebo API: Open for Business

John Musser, January 11th, 2008

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 [...]


Find Neighborhoods via Urban Mapping API

John Musser, January 10th, 2008

The folks at Urban Mapping have just made the neighborhood lookup functions of their web service API free.


French Press and Facebook Mashup Hoax

John Musser, January 9th, 2008

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”.


Google, Facebook Join DataPortability.org

John Musser, January 8th, 2008

dataportability.orgIn 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.


Yahoo Launches Mobile Developer Platform

John Musser, January 8th, 2008

At yesterday’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Yahoo announced the early preview of their Mobile Developer Platform.


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