Now that Microsoft has responded to Yahoo’s initial rejection of their offer it looks like this story isn’t over yet. Whether or not this deal goes through, it’s worth noting that both of these companies take developing open web APIs as a key part of their strategy going forward (even in the midst of the talks last week Yahoo released their Yahoo Live API). Overall Yahoo has 28 open web APIs and Microsoft has 22 open web APIs. This means that between them there are 50 APIs. Of course there’s overlap and given the technical challenges it’s not easy to combine platforms (ex: look at how Flickr and delicious APIs at Yahoo retain their own flavor). To give a sense of comparison the following table gives you an overview of how the APIs currently stack up:
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7 Responses to “Microsoft and Yahoo: Comparing the APIs”
at 8:20 am
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at 10:44 am
[...] Microsoft and Yahoo: Comparing the APIs | Great comparison on a category by category basis. It makes clear the overlap in product range and if the merger does go through, clearly somethings will have to phased out. As long as this is done on the what is the “best” option then that’s fine – assuming best means the same for everyone. Choice is a great thing. [...]
at 11:45 am
This would be a good post, except none of the links work. They all point to blog.programmableweb.com instead of http://www.programmableweb.com
at 2:06 pm
Hello, I noticed an error with your post when I glanced over it in my feed reader, and confirmed its cause by viewing the source of your page…
For your list of APIs in each category, the URLs you use are relative URLs whose structure is something like “/api/api-name-here/”. That’s fine if people are reading you entry on your site, but if they’re reading it through a feed reader, the URL becomes broken, because it’s pointing at a location on the feed reader’s domain that doesn’t exist. In my case, all of your URLs link to “http://beta.bloglines.com/api/api-name-here”.
Hope this helps and leads to a quick fix!
Best,
Jay
at 4:06 pm
In my personal opinion, the only one of Microsoft’s web-based programs worth anything is MSN Messenger. I’ve never heard of anyone using the other things. Makes me nervous that if a merger did happen, Microsoft would handle Yahoo!’s web-based services just as lousily.
at 10:28 pm
@Jay and Jamie: Thanks for pointing-out the broken links! Very helpful. Now fixed.
at 4:32 pm
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