In Chicago today eBay will kick-off of their annual eBay Developer’s Conference by announcing Project Echo, a way for outside developers to integrate their apps “directly onto the world’s largest ecommerce site”.
Micro-commerce is an emerging global trend, from the microcredit pioneered by Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, to micropayment systems offered by companies like ZayPay. ZayPay is used for payments for online services, game sites, dating sites, and others. And now they have an API.
With the launch of the general election, much attention has been given to the online efforts of John McCain and Barack Obama. But what if each candidate had their own API?
Yesterday’s Mashup of the Day was a fun one for those who miss the good old days of command shells, goosh.org, “the unofficial google shell”. Developer Stefan Grothkopp coded this on top of the Google Ajax Search API to give you a command shell for interacting with Google search queries.
As first reported in mediabistro, The New York Times is planning to release an API sometime this summer. The goal, as editor of interactive news Aron Pilhofer put it, is to “make the NYT programmable. Everything we produce should be organized data.”
What happens when the API is technically secure but the environment, whether widget, web site or mashup, is not? Recent security breaches in MySpace and Yahoo, which led to the release of semi-embarrassing photos of prolific celebs Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, points out the added opportunities for hackers in the open web.
Google recently announced the new Google Earth Browser Plug-in, which brings the rich mapping and interactivity of the Google Earth application directly into the web browser, “bringing the full power of Google Earth to the web, embeddable within your own we site.”
For many it’s dream that computer programs would lets us see into the essential meaning of the words of a text like the Bible. Although we don’t have such programs yet, it’s fun to look at efforts moving in that direction.
Yahoo took its second major step this year in opening up its service to the wider web, under the rubric of Y!OS (Yahoo Open Strategy, introduced here), with the release today of the Yahoo Address Book API.
Summize.com provides the capability to search Twitter conversations. Summize now offers the Summize Twitter Search API (profile), providing programmable Twitter searches.
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