Google To Developers: OK, You Can Still Have An Open Calendar API
The Plex does a U-turn and decides to keep an open-standard calendar API it had earlier planned to kill off.
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Articles tagged "APIs"
Wed, 5 June 2013
Fri, 17 May 2013
App Not Working? It Might Be Time To Check The 'Weather'
If you depend on an outside Web service for your own app or service to work, you need to know how to check the API weather reports.
Fri, 10 May 2013
APIs - The Doors To Web Services - Need Strong Locks
Mis-managed APIs (application programming interfaces) can hurt performance, alienate developers and even lead to costly and damaging data…
Wed, 24 April 2013
The New API Gold Rush
Managing the rules for how computers and applications talk to each other is a booming business.
Wed, 17 April 2013
Intel Is Buying Mashery To Get Deeper Inside The Data Center
Intel's acquisition of API manager Mashery shows that the central processing unit is no longer a silicon chip. It is the network.
Tue, 20 November 2012
Uhoh. Firefox's New API Brings Facebook Chat Right To Your Browser
Firefox now lets social notifications "float above" the browsing experience in a more persistent, less cumbersome way.
Thu, 19 July 2012
Google+ Gets More Business-Friendly with New APIs
Google+ is growing up. The fledgling social media platform, which has increasingly been seen as more of a threat to Facebook and Twitter…
Fri, 1 June 2012
New Pipl API Pulls in a Staggering - and Creepy - Amount of People Data Into Your Apps
People search engine Pipl's people search API is now out of beta and open to all developers. The API can be used to bring a variety of…
Fri, 30 March 2012
Google Adds New Toys to OAuth Playground
Google opened its OAuth 2.0 playground to developers last November with support for Google properties and non-Google APIs with support for…
Mon, 19 March 2012
AP Creates New Big Data Approach to its Article Archive
If you are looking for large content repositories, you probably can't get much larger than the article archive of the Associated Press…
Fri, 16 March 2012
What SendHub Learned Building a Single-Page Backbone.js App
SendHub has put up a post on things its developers learned in rebuilding the front-end of its Web site as a single-page application with…
Fri, 10 February 2012
Daniel Jacobson of Netflix on the API with an Audience
Alexia Tsotsis, who writes for TechCrunch, had this advice on Twitter earlier today: "Good tech blogger rule of thumb: Avoid using 'API' in…
Fri, 3 February 2012
Netflix' Daniel Jacobson: Letting APIs Change Everything
What we today call the "mobile app" could, in a very short period of time, become known as the portable app, or just the "app." It tends to…
Fri, 27 January 2012
Netflix Engineer Daniel Jacobson: The API at the Root of Your Business
The first place I had ever seen an API actually at work was as part of an operating system. It was a strange OS at that, a permutation of…
Wed, 18 January 2012
Usergrid + Apigee Will Lead to Cloud-based Mobile Data Tool, Say CEOs
Over the last year, a firm called Usergrid has been building an open source tool for leading mobile app developers through the process of…
Sun, 1 January 2012
KORE Telematics' Alex Brisbourne (Part 3): An Internet of Things API?
The picture recently painted of a network of ubiquitous connectivity for each and every class of processor-endowed device on the planet goes…
Tue, 27 December 2011
Filer.js: A UNIX-Like Wrapper for the HTML5 Filesystem API
Eric Bidelman, an engineer on Google's Chrome team, has released a JavaScript wrapper library for the HTML5 Filesystem API. Called filer.js…
Mon, 19 December 2011
IT Survey: Businesses Embrace APIs for Apps Integration, Not Social
In perhaps one of the more counter-intuitive surveys to be published this year, commissioned by developer tools maker Apigee, a majority…
Mon, 28 November 2011
jQuip Puts jQuery on a Diet
If you've wanted a slimmer jQuery, and many do, you might want to look at jQuip. Demis Bellot launched the project on GitHub earlier…
Fri, 11 November 2011
Google Opens OAuth Playground for Developers
Google's continuing its push for OAuth 2.0 in its Google Web APIs by providing a "playground" for developers to test OAuth…
Fri, 28 October 2011
17 Alternatives to Klout
As we wrote about earlier this week, Klout has reworked its algorithms, and your scores have changed. Some have gone up, some down…
Mon, 10 October 2011
Latest SAP Mobile Apps Show Progress for Sybase Platform on HTML5
Despite having been generally available for mobile systems like iOS for over two-and-a-half years now, you don't hear much about something…
Wed, 5 October 2011
Adobe's Strategy to Distinguish Flash 11 from HTML5, in 3D!
Microsoft earned a reputation for its "embrace and extend" development philosophy, which recalls a time when it assimilated existing ideas…
Tue, 4 October 2011
Dun & Bradstreet on the Value of Researched vs. Crowdsourced Data
The most critical missing piece of Salesforce.com's emerging cloud service last year was filled with the acquisition of Jigsaw, a vast…
