Google has just announced that the company will be extending the deprecation timeline of JavaScript Maps API v2 by six months. The deprecation date for Google JavaScript Maps API v2 is now November 19, 2013.
When it comes to mobile computing IT organizations basically have two choices. They can either try to extend their existing applications to support mobile computing access or they can develop applications from the ground up that are truly optimized for mobile computing.
Native advertising is the way forward when it comes to engaging users with products, and in-game product placements is a highly effective way to engage users in the world of social, mobile and free-to-play video games. With the help of MediaSpike, brands can easily put relevant and targeted product placement into any social or mobile game. The selling point is that the service is aimed at both advertisers and developers, and that it has been built by actual game developers who understand the ins and outs of game advertising, removing many of the hindrances that may normally be associated with this process. The MediaSpike API makes this functionality available to developers.
For a website or application to have any longevity, user experience needs to be on the list of top priorities. We all know that there’s nothing more frustrating than a site that just doesn’t work, and one way to keep users smiling is to identify and eliminate those pesky errors and bugs as soon as possible. Errorception is a service that identifies and tracks JavaScript errors as they occur in a user’s browser. The service provides the Errorception API that makes this functionality available to be integrated into other websites and applications.
InviteBox, social referral program, allows merchants, bloggers, developers (and anybody else with a web presence) to refer friends and customers to recommended products. Users can take advantage of pre-determined referral offers (e.g. coupons, promo codes, free products, cash incentives, etc.) or create custom incentive programs. InviteBox offers all the needed moving parts from creating the referral program to implementation, and the analytics to measure success. Users can simply insert a widget into a website or utilize the Reward Callback API.
If you’re building a library for others to use, whether an internal utility at your company or a full-scale commercial API, elegant error handling is a much appreciated but often overlooked design consideration. Having a sensible error-handling system for your library is even more important in client-side frameworks like javascript, where the code has to deal with network connection issues, a weak type system, and a mutable and potentially hostile context, all while striving to maintain as small of a footprint as possible. While some of these points on error handling are applicable to APIs in general, this advice is drawn from how we at Filepicker.io looked at communicating errors in javascript API design.
In a post over at PandoDaily last week there was some discussion about the trend towards Single Page Web Applications (SPAs) that seems to be emerging especially for SAAS Web Applications (see Zendesk’s great post on Techcrunch last week). Single Page Web Apps are just starting to gain currency, but may end up playing a major role in API adoption since they essentially eliminate the need for “page based” navigation within an application. Instead, SPAs rely on a combination of an API and Javascript to create the user experience. It also seems likely that this trend might eventually extend even to content Web sites, not just functional applications (some thoughts on this here: The Death of the Web Page.
Dropbox recently announced the launch of Dropbox Chooser. Dropbox Chooser simplifies Dropbox integration beyond the already popular Drobox API. Instead of integrating Dropbox files with a file browser or upload, Dropbox Chooser creates a small JavaScript component that developers can embed in apps that automatically publishes or attaches documents. For the non-developer crowd looking to integrate Dropbox into apps and websites, the Dropbox Chooser button simplifies integration to the fullest extent.
There’s a major shift under way in terms of how applications are being developed for the enterprise and the cloud. With the rise of more powerful multicore processors and relatively inexpensive Flash memory, more application logic is running in memory than ever. In fact, the line between the database and application logic running in memory is starting to blur.
I just had a lot of fun reviewing the Clay.io HTML 5 games site. Of course as part of my due diligence I had to actually play some of the games on the site. Just part of the job, right? I’ve been interested in this HTML5 app / game thing for a bit, and that’s what Clay.io is all about. Clay.io has a clear value offering to developers and a simple revenue stream: provide a javascript API to developers and take a 20% cut of any revenue generated by the game.
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