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Recent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts Adam blogs at: Today in APIs: Flickr Competition, the “Real” Google Plus API and 15 New APIs February 09 2012 A competitor created an export tool for Flickr ex-patriots, so the photo sharing site shut down the Flickr API developer key. The Google Plus developer page makes some wonder if the "real" Google Plus API is coming soon. Also: questions about the Google Safe Browsing API, free cloud database and… read moreToday in APIs: Private Path API, Wolfram’s Siri Love and 18 New APIs February 07 2012 Path.com has a mobile app, so of course it has an API. Someone sniffed the traffic and discovered something naughty. And you know the answer-anything Wolframe Alpha? Find out why it really, really likes Apple's Siri. Plus: Facebook gaming, Google Plus developers and 18 new APIs. read moreAPI as Product: With Volume Comes Lower Prices February 07 2012 Amazon just dropped prices on its popular Amazon S3 API, which provides storage to much of the web. The service will pass 1 trillion objects stored this year. With that volume comes opportunities to lower the costs, as we've seen from other companies whose entire product line includes APIs. read more5,000 APIs: Facebook, Google and Twitter Are Changing the Web February 06 2012 Our API directory has hit another major milestone. We now list 5,000 APIs, just a short four months since passing 4,000. No longer is the web simply about links connecting one site to another. Instead, developers are using tools to connect data and functionality from one site to another site.… read moreToday in APIs: Most Retweets Ever, Newt’s API? and 6 New APIs February 04 2012 Twitter is now reporting the real number of retweets in the Twitter API, which means we now know how crazy the retweet counts go on celebrity tweets. And did Newt Gingrich lose in Florida because he didn't have an API!? Plus: 6 new APIs. read moreFebruary 03 2012 Somewhere in Austin, someone is likely already organizing the lanyards for the thousands of SXSW badges for the techies next month. And somewhere in Brighton, the small team behind Lanyrd is likely working hard to make sure its social conference directory is ready for SXSW and all the other conferences… read moreToday in APIs: Google Maps is Too Free, Angelist App and 11 New APIs February 03 2012 The most popular API in our directory, the Google Maps API, has been called anti-competitive in France because its basic version is free. A new app built on the AngelList API lets you slice and dice startups by location and market. Plus: genealogy programmers converge, Stripe adds webhooks and 11… read moreJobseekers Invited to “Apply Via API” February 02 2012 Forget uploading resumes or filling out forms on some job board. Backend-as-a-service company Parse is inviting potential hires to apply via its Parse API. In what initially looks like an added barrier to entry, the company is hoping its cheeky and geeky move will attract the sort of developers who… read moreToday in APIs: Facebook, Bloomberg, RESTful Quandaries and 28 New APIs February 01 2012 Sure, Facebook filed for an IPO today, but it also provided developers some great guidance on using real-time features in the Facebook API. And while Bloomberg's lead news story is the Facebook IPO, in the API world it's probably more interesting to look at Bloomberg's new open platform. Plus: why… read moreSocial Media Management Tool Adds Its Own API February 01 2012 HootSuite, a social media management tool for web and mobile, uses a lot of APIs. Now, it also provides one, the HootSuite Engagement API, which the company unveiled today. The new platform allows developers to create, schedule and organize social messages and accounts. read moreToday in APIs: Amazon S3’s Trillions, Facebook App Pages and 13 New APIs January 31 2012 Amazon's simple storage solution, the Amazon S3 API, is growing fast, on . Facebook is getting rid of pages for Facebook apps, which fueled the social network's growth. Plus: find an API developer, try out eight more API consoles and incorporate ads into your mobile apps with Google. read moreToday in APIs: Facebook Subscribers, Google SOAP and 6 New APIs January 26 2012 Facebook added subscriber data to its Facebook Graph APIand the Google AdWords API updated its SOAP validation. Wait, people still use SOAP? Plus, two sides to API frustration, a mobile app contest, HTTP API evolvability and six new APIs. read moreCloud Assault: a Sledgehammer for Your APIs January 26 2012 There's a difference between knowing and hoping your API can handle any traffic you send to it. The premise behind the new performance testing service Cloud Assault is that testing scale should be part of development. The service has the Cloud Assault API to enable coders to do just that. read moreToday in APIs: YouTube History, Amazon Cloud Updates and 19 New APIs January 25 2012 The web's largest video site has added a new personalization feature to its YouTube API. Sure to be misunderstood as a privacy concern, the service now lets applications access viewing history for authenticated users. Amazon also made two announcements related to its storage and database services. That and 19 new… read moreTwilio Adds Volume Pricing for SMS January 25 2012 Telephony-as-a-service company Twilio (a ProgrammableWeb sponsor) is set to announce new volume pricing for heavy users of its Twilio SMS API. The company had previously dropped the price for SMS twice, but did not yet have published volume pricing. Those using over 500,000 SMS messages a month will now pay… read moreDashing Analytics for Publishers Shows Value of APIs January 24 2012 High traffic, content-rich sites want to slice their analytics in different ways than, say, an e-commerce site. That's the concept behind Parse.ly Dash, a new product to provide "fresh insights" to these publishers with a price tag starting at $499 per month. Interestingly, the company's three pricing tiers each come… read moreToday in APIs: Picnik Replacement, Ethics API and 11 New APIs January 24 2012 On Friday Google closed two APIs, including the online photo editor, Picnik. To fill the void, Aviary has launched a new photo app using its Aviary Suite API on Facebook meant to be a Picnik replacement. Also, a San Francisco government organization creates what may be the first API for… read moreFoursquare API Billionaire: “Thousands per Second” January 23 2012 Every day Foursquare users create millions of check-ins using the location-sharing platform. Those may be only a small fraction of the traffic seen by its API, which we've estimated receives at least 5 billion requests per month. The company continues to expand the local data made available via its API,… read moreToday in APIs: Facebook Music, New AppFog Features and 11 New APIs January 21 2012 Facebook is apparently in talks with music video site Vevo to take over streaming of the videos from YouTube once the contract runs out. That would take the company's more than 30,000 videos out of the YouTube API. In another story, AppFog has expanded its platform-as-a-service offering to include database… read moreGoogle Gets Less Social With Two More Closed APIs January 20 2012 Google continues to clean its API house, knocking another couple APIs into the dustbin. Google Social Graph API was launched in 2008 with high hopes of an open social standard. The Picnik API is a photo editing service that Google acquired and incorporated into Picasa and most recently, Google Plus. read moreNot the SIRI API You Were Expecting January 20 2012 When Apple announced the API powered Siri feature, many started asking the same question we did when Siri was just an app mashup: where's the Siri API? While Apple hasn't added one, we now list a SIRI API, but it's not the one you want to see. read moreToday in APIs: Twilio Expands, Twitter Relents and 7 New APIs January 20 2012 Today there were two major announcements from Twilio (a ProgrammableWeb sponsor) as its Twilio API continues to expand into Europe. Twitter also announced an upcoming change that will free the retweet count for a tweet into the API results. That and seven new APIs round out today in APIs. read moreFacebook Partners: At Least 15 Have APIs January 19 2012 When Facebook announced its timeline partners yesterday, there were many familiar names on the list. Some were especially familiar to us because, in addition to now adding their "actions" to Facebook, they also provide APIs to access data created by their users. read moreToday in APIs: Facebook, Amazon and 13 New APIs January 19 2012 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. read moreGoogle Maps Pricing Sends Real Estate Site to Open Source January 11 2012 In October Google announced pricing for its popular Google Maps API. Though most sites won't hit the free limits, those with a lot of traffic may be scrambling for a solution. That was the case for a New York real estate service, which discovered their bill would be $200,000 -… read moreYellowPages.com Catches Up, Enables Local Apps With Free APIs January 10 2012 The US YellowPages, owned by AT&T, has revamped its developer offerings to launch a robust set of YellowPages APIs. The company also added a modern developer portal, with the ability to track API calls and test queries. The new service is part of a growing trend to share more local… read more“Car as a Platform” Wars: GM Joins Ford January 09 2012 Today OnStar, a GM company focused on in-car communication and security, announced what it calls an API. Though not yet released, nor totally open and perhaps not even an API, the move is certainly part of "car as a platform." Building apps for cars is a movement that hasn't seen… read moreWhat You Need to Know About Google’s AdWords API Deprecation January 06 2012 One of Google's oldest APIs--and the one most closely aligned with how the company makes money--will disable old versions of the Google AdWords API at the end of February. If you're using an app to enable keyword buys, or are using the API directly yourself, you'll want to make sure… read moreSeptember 07 2010 Map APIs took off in 2005, and during the ensuing years the whole notion of maps has changed. Where once they were slick add-ons, map functionality is now a necessary -- and expected -- tool. In this piece, Adam DuVander looks at the current state of mapping and he explains… read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts Buy Now and Save
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