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Friday, 17th May 2013

App Not Working? It Might Be Time To Check The 'Weather'

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.

Cloud Brian Proffitt comments

Friday, 10th May 2013

APIs - The Doors To Web Services - Need Strong Locks

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 breaches.

Hack Brian Proffitt comments

Wednesday, 24th April 2013

The New API Gold Rush

The New API Gold Rush

Managing the rules for how computers and applications talk to each other is a booming business.

Hack Brian Proffitt comments

Wednesday, 17th April 2013

Intel Is Buying Mashery To Get Deeper Inside The Data Center

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.

Enterprise Owen Thomas comments

Tuesday, 20th November 2012

Uhoh. Firefox's New API Brings Facebook Chat Right To Your Browser

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.

Social Taylor Hatmaker comments

Thursday, 19th 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, just took another step towards social media maturity with the release of some new hooks to let other social media management tools connect directly to Google's social network.

Social Brian Proffitt comments

Friday, 1st June 2012

New Pipl API Pulls in a Staggering - and Creepy - Amount of People Data Into Your Apps

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 information about an individual, from social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn to government resources like the United States Patent and Trademark Office and county clerk offices, into any application.

Hack Klint Finley comments

Friday, 30th 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 OAuth 2.0 draft 10. Since then, the company has added a number of new toys to the OAuth Playground, including support for testing client-side apps, in addition to testing Web-based applications. In case you…

Hack Joe Brockmeier comments

Monday, 19th 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. Today they announced they have launched a content analysis tool that is used to search the millions of articles in their archives to create custom archive products for their customers. Users can query for…

Hack David Strom comments

Friday, 16th 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 Backbone.js. This includes everything from template rendering to "avoiding a zombie apocalypse." The company decided to give SendHub.com a facelift because "the site looked a bit dated, and it just didn't feel as…

Hack Joe Brockmeier comments

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