Shopping isn’t necessarily particular for this audience, but have you ever tried to help your parents or non tech-savvy friends try to shop for a computer? SalesClark aims to combine several online shop APIs (such as Amazon and Commission Junction) to build a tool that you can sit your mom down with and help her find a computer.
Recently we wrote about the wonders of PubSubHubBub and what was possible when services push data, in real time, to external web apps. Twitter’s Stream API makes it clear that we’re headed towards an exciting and very real-time web. Now YouTube is along for the ride.
Are you someone who is on the lookout for a note taking application and want all of your notes to automatically sync with your desktop, mobile phone and other applications? While you might have tried out several,
Simplenote wants to make it simple, effective and is also giving you the Simplenote API to streamline your note taking, just the way you want.
World Bank has officially announced the start of the “Apps for Development”, a global contest that invites developers to create applications that address development challenges across the world. We had earlier reported on the revamped World Bank data site, which exposes more than 2,000 World Development indicators, along with a World Bank API to access the information.
When Amazon announced a public beta of its cloud computing infrastructure in 2006, it was the beginning of the new computing era in which you can consume and pay for computing resources per use. Today we have a lot of public clouds, however, when you build and deploy your application you are often bound to a single cloud provider through its proprietary API. DeltaCloud provides you with unified API across major cloud providers that you can use to manage your virtual machines in major clouds such as EC2 or Rackspace.
A thought provoking article, at O’Reilly’s Radar blog is set to change the general view about how we look at APIs and the data that they expose. Data or content is getting more valuable and the need to get access to data being held by the API publisher is more or likely going to undergo severe pressure thereby unlocking the true value of data.
Technology and entertainment retailer Best Buy is leading the way with the latest addition to the Best Buy API. It now allows developers to not just search the company’s catalogue, but also complete the purchases within their own applications. Developers then earn a portion of the sale, which one would expect to be more likely than when applications must hand off the customer to Best Buy’s site.
The Facebook API is a great thing. Since Facebook’s launch of its API, we’ve seen some incredible applications and tools developed that help us connect and socialize. Likewise, we’ve seen a growing number of high profile companies create their own Facebook applications as well as some thriving companies generating millions with their own, original Facebook applications and games.
If you’re a developer hosting your apps on MediaTemple, then you’ll want to get into the beta of the new MediaTemple API. Though you need to apply to get access, the company has provided quite a bit of information to drool over while you await for your API application to be approved.
Why, you may ask, would Zappos–which you probably know as that online shoe store with the great return policy–need an API, much less a developer platform? Well, Zappos doesn’t just sell shoes these days; they also carry men’s and women’s clothing, handbags, housewares, and other related products. And if there’s one thing online shoppers love, it’s new ways to shop.
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