Today In APIs: Cleanweb Hackathon and StackMob Moves to Rackspace Open Cloud

Romin Irani, April 10th, 2013

Cleanweb Hackathon coming to Portland on May 18th. StackMob brings its MBaaS platform to Rackspace Hosting. Plus: Twilio adds new permission-based Multi-user project management system to its platform.


Mobile Backend Starts With Customers, Opens API for All

Adam DuVander, March 6th, 2013

MoblicoFor mobile developers looking to launch a full-featured app fast, a mobile backend provider makes sense. Newly wide open Moblico is hardly new to the task. The company has been serving up the mobile backend of big companies since 2009. Now any developer can get started with the Moblico API to launch apps, with access to the features built explicitly for customer requests. Users, location and deals are among the areas covered by the new APIs.


Today in APIs: YouTube Caption Translation, LinkedIn OAuth 2.0, and 8 New APIs

Kevin Sundstrom, February 22nd, 2013

YouTubeYouTube has integrated with Gengo and Translated.net to allow seamless caption translation. The LinkedIn API has moved to OAuth 2.0. Plus: StackMob launches enterprise API marketplace, Rackspace open sources PHP SDK for OpenCloud, and 8 new APIs.


Today in APIs: Deezer Hopes APIs Will Help Promote Discovery, Amazon Maps API Now Available and 20 New APIs

Kevin Sundstrom, November 28th, 2012

DeezerDeezer announced a new set of APIs and the accompanying “app Studio”. Amazon takes its Maps API from public beta to full release. Plus: LinkedIn launches Ads API, enabling custom tools for large-scale campaigns, VStorage API support focus of Symantec-Veeam battle and 20 new APIs.


StackMob Launches Module Marketplace, Now Offers Free API Calls

Janet Wagner, November 14th, 2012

StackMobStackMob, a leading cloud-based, mobile Platform as a Service (PaaS) provider, has just announced the launch of the StackMob Marketplace, a developer-ready API modules online store. In addition, StackMob is now offering a new pricing model that offers free StackMob API calls to developers.


Today In APIs: Zendesk Radar API, AT&T Developer Summit and 20 New APIs

Romin Irani, October 23rd, 2012

ZendeskZendesk announces Radar, a push notification framework. AT&T Developer Summit 2013 invites developers to hack on AT&T APIs. Plus: Some great advice on what developers want from API Providers,  Twilio is hiring engineers at a rate of 20 per quarter, and 20 new APIs.


50 Backend APIs: CloudMine, Mydigitalstructure and QuickBlox

Wendell Santos, October 17th, 2012

CloudMineOur API directory now includes 50 backend APIs. The newest is the CloudBees API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the CloudMine API. We list two CloudMine mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of backend APIs.


307 Mobile APIs: Foursquare, Instagram and iTunes

Wendell Santos, March 27th, 2012

foursquareOur API directory now includes 307 mobile APIs. The newest is the Mobilepax API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the foursquare API. We list 81 foursquare mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of mobile APIs.


“Backend As A Service” Companies Differentiate on Funding, Documentation

Garrett Wilkin, October 31st, 2011

ParseParse makes a great run at attracting developers to its platform and engaging them by providing clear documentation for the Parse API and SDKs. Making developer documentation and SDKs freely available is an excellent strategy, and a top notch strategy is important for this company.


56 New APIs: StackMob, Civicboom, Parse

Wendell Santos, October 30th, 2011

This week we had 56 new APIs added to our API directory including a realtime push messaging service, academic admissions services, a mobile device data exchange service, a news crowdsourcing platform, a data and analytics visualization service, and a secure internet identity service. Additionally, we covered one of the newest backend service providers. Below are more details on each of these new APIs.


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