The Gnip API continues its focus on social data, providing new ways to filter the Twitter firehose. There are a lot of complaints about OAuth, but one presentation warns not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Plus: New York Times announces new developer events, a new API billionaire and 18 new APIs.
Google’s VP of engineering explains why Google Plus still doesn’t offer a full write API. Social media manager Buffer opens up its API to developers. Plus: Developer mashes up a “what’s hot in baseball” Chrome plugin in 48 hours and blogs about it and 14 new APIs.
Skyhook’s in-flight location API can now find users 35,000 feet in the air. Amazon prepares to open registration for its first AWS confrence coming in November. Plus: OnStar’s API is being used by a car sharing program, how Google rewards top developers and 16 new APIs.
The Tumblr firehose is now available via the Gnip API. A new daily deal API is focused on a new place: the deal sites themselves. Plus: API packaging, gambling in the cloud and 8 new APIs.
Backend-as-a-service company Parse found a vulnerability in Facebook’s Android SDK that allowed apps to masquerade as users. Gnip has added to its network of social streams by partnering with the Twitter of China. Plus: Amazon in app purchases, an API for summer jobs and APIs to improve mobile performance.
A timeline traces Spotify’s path from music listening app to “OS of Music.” Gnip adds some tweet filtering operators. Plus: will ESPN come to Siri, FullContact’s pricing two-step and 11 new APIs.
Another big user of the Google Maps API may be leaving, but this one we could have guessed. Facebook clarifies the flow of submissions to its open graph actions feature. Plus: Amazon DynamoDB expansion, Gnip on data and 14 new APIs.
Foursquare has embraced the open maps movement. Russia’s biggest search engine integrates with the Topsy API. Plus: Disqus comments available in Gnip, Microsoft launches its own Webmaster Tools API and 21 new APIs.
The Google Maps API took a hit in France as non-competitive. The Gnip API now lets its customers go back in time, tweet-wise, retroactively tracking specific terms. Plus: APIs for hustlers, putting the “why” in user permissions and 10 new APIs.
Today Facebook announced 60 approved partners for its Open Graph, which allows them to add actions to the Facebook Timeline. Amazon also added a new API to its cloud offerings, a homegrown NoSQL database. That was among the 13 new APIs on a busy day in APIs.
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