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The EE 4G UK hackathon now has its API partners signed up and confirmed, paving the way for the start of the competition that the company hopes will spur the development of apps that make use of its 4G LTE network speeds. MORE
AT&T opens up Watson API. Ma Bell has taken the locks off of its Watson speech application programming interfaces (APIs), allowing any developer to access them. AT&T opens up Watson API. Tech News and Analysis. Events. Books. Research. Apple. Cleantech. Cloud. Europe. MORE
W ibiya , the two year old on-site social toolbar provider (held by parent company Modular Patterns), has announced it is launching a developer platform and an open API which will enable third party applications on the Wibiya toolbar. and AddThis to make it easier for developers to use their different APIs and create great apps that will be added to the Wibiya platform. MORE
News 1099 API B2B Marketplace Shippo ToolsAs you’re building your marketplace, consider which tools and technology to leverage. MORE
This continues a series of columns from practitioners I respect. The category "Real Deal" describes them well. This time it is Mark Herring, SVP of Product Marketing at Software AG. I recently heard him talk about "Big Services" as a. The Real Deal: Guest Columnist MORE
Amazon on Tuesday announced the release of its Maps API, now out of beta and integrated into the Amazon Mobile App SDK. The Amazon Maps API has two core features: Interactive Maps: You can embed a Map View in your app for customers to pan, zoom and fling around the world. MORE
Jobs API Boulder orbotixMy friends at Orbotix are hiring. Following is the list of open positions. If you fit the description, like playing with robots, want free beer all day, and live in Boulder, email them a note with a resume. - Game Designer : Are you passionate about gaming and have a deep understanding of game design and game mechanics? MORE
The only thing that was missing for me was an API. Fitbit released the Fitbit API quietly a month or so ago. My Investments API fitbitI love Fitbit. The product is great, the team is great, and I’m psyched to be an investor. I’ve been a user for a while – my data is public – but I just recently started using the food tracker which is superb. I’ve encouraged them to make more noise as some great applications are coming out. MORE
57-percent of mobile application users would consider purchasing their holiday gifts this year on a mobile device, according to a survey conducted by API technology provider Apigee. In the News API Apigee holidays mobile apps mobile commerce mobile shopping MORE
They also provide an API that connects online stores to all the relevant shipping providers both locally and internationally. Other mashup APIs already exist that aggregate data from different carriers, but there’s yet to be any clear winner in the space. We believe that Shippo offers the right algorithm, API, and web interface to change the game for mid-sized e-commerce shipping. Or, developers can integrate the Shippo API directly to their own website. MORE
For multimedia capabilities, camera and video functionality lead the way with just over half of the respondents choosing these APIs. Least Desired Features/APIs. MORE
Daniel Jacobson ( Twitter | LinkedIn ), is currently director of engineering for the Netflix API. Prior to Netflix, Daniel ran application development for NPR where, among other things, he created the NPR API. He is also the co-author of APIs: A Strategy Guide. MORE
In other words, a way to reach a bunch of location based apps at scale via API and paying only for those that convert. In terms of competition, theDealmap (bought by Google) and Placecast (location-based offers by SMS) come close, but don’t really offer a similar API service. Israeli startup FootTraffic offers advertisers a performance marketing platform for location-based offers. MORE
” Oracle also got copyrights to the Java APIs. The post Oracle’s Java API Suit Against Google – Five Years Later appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Five years ago, in August 2010, I asked the question Have We Reached The Software Patent Tipping Point? Oracle sued Google over a series of Java-related patents they got when they acquired Sun. MORE
I now have a photo of my card on my iPhone and due to the magic of the FullContact CardShark API the data was automagically turned into a vCard and a Google contact. My friends at FullContact talk about how they do this in their post If Only CardMunch Were An API… Oh Yes We Did! My Investments API CardMunch fullcontact vCardThere are some things I wish would just go away forever. Business cards are one of those things. MORE
Google Code just release the API console. It better organizes Google’s APIs and I even discovered a couple new APIs. Custom Search API - Google Custom Search enables you to search over a slice of the web, such as your own website, or a collection of websites. MORE
So what will become of Quora now that it is getting an API ? I was having a great conversation with Jason Schwartz the other night about Quora --how the current Quora community feels a lot like Twitter did in the early days. Conversation is of high quality and it's really easy to find thoughtful contributors. We both agreed that the overall quality of what we find on Twitter is down from where it was. MORE
Listen to Amazon: two-pizza teams and internal APIs. Two of the reasons Amazon is able to keep its momentum even as a 97,000-employee giant are pizza teams and APIs…. Internal APIs: Every internal product should have an API, just as if it were developed for an external client. The added bonus is that APIs lay the groundwork for the productization of internal tools. Bezos mandated that all IT assets be exposed as APIs. MORE
This week, I was scheduled to publish the 4th in the Lontra Ventures Spotlight series on Stoplight , an Austin-based, API design and testing company. Trust me, APIs are a REALLY BIG DEAL. An API is an Application Programmable Interface , or simply how programmers communicate with apps. MORE
While the RVR belly rubbing and behind-the-ear scratching APIs need some work, you can also get a $40 gift certificate from Rover to have a human do this. Happy Pi Day everyone. If you love dogs, or robots, or dogs and robots, you’ll love the video below. MORE
Guy Nirpaz Blog Thoughts from my startup journey Salesforce API and Axis2 Here’s a useful tip for Java developers integrating with the SalesForce API. To read the explanation, just have a look here Tags: api , axis2 , salesforce This entry was posted on Sunday, May 30th, 2010 at 3:35 am and is filed under Uncategorized. MORE
I’m now sitting in the API track and the first two presentations have been dynamite. Clay Loveless from Mashery just did a presentation titled “ 5 Things I Hate About Your API-TOS“. For simplicity, I’ll call the company providing the API’s the “platform company” and the companies using the API as the “ecosystem partners.” Tags: Technology API Glue TOS I’m at the Glue Conference all day. So far, it’s far exceeded my already high expectations. MORE
Apple Appstore Appsfire Levi Shapiro 2012 ad networks advertising Android Angry Birds API App Store apple category developers Discovery Draw Something entertainment Games Google handset IP iPhone Lifestyle maps marketing mobile music Navigation rovio sdk social networks statistics UI What's AppNearly 100,000 new developers created applications this year for the App Store, which rakes in 4x more revenue than Google Play. MORE
News API healthcare Marketplace network effects patient health dataIt’s been a year since we published our series on digital healthcare which I co-wrote with Jonathan Libov of Union Square Ventures. The reception was overwhelmingly positive (we’re thankful to all of you who gave us feedback) and opened up the floodgates to patients, medical professionals, entrepreneurs, and investors who still reach out to us with their pains, thoughts, experiences, and goals for the healthcare system. MORE
But with these new API changes, I’m not sure how or even if we can stay in business. I didn’t really look into the recent API changes. Second, Facebook’s API is RETARDED. I love(d) Twitter’s API because of the freedom and ease of use. MORE
For example, we see horizontal platforms like Twilio that replaces all the telecom hardware with an API for phone, VoIP, and messaging. This is what Garry Tan has called the API-ization of everything : “Where there is paper to push, a call to answer, or a purchase to approve, there is an API coming to replace it.”. News API Application programming interface Braintree Facebook Programmable Web Salesforce.com Shopify Twilio twitter MORE
provider of a cloud managed, on-demand security and operations video management system, today announced the Eagle Eye Video API, targeted at businesses and developers integrating video into their applications. Eagle Eye Networks, Inc., Digital Eagle Eye Networks MORE
But the power in PowerInbox – pardon the pun – comes into its own with the opening up of its APIs to developers and partners. Ideaspotting APIs email email technology PowerInboxEmail is dead. We’ve all heard that clarion call more than a few times. MORE
I work with a lot of consumer startups that are dealing with location-aware information. From a programmer perspective, it’s just plain hard. Not only is it difficult to find a great source for quality geo data, but then you typically want to correlate it across multiple social systems (Foursquare, Yelp, etc). Some of my favorite code monkeys have just made this problem a little easier. Infochimps is pioneering a somewhat new category, named data-as-a-service. Today [.]. MORE
News API Application programming interface Databases Government MineCraft Open Data Open Data Day OpenGov Vancouver I’m fascinated by the Open Data movement, particularly when it comes to government where the concept of open data hinges on the belief that data is a public asset – just like highways and parks – and should be made available to all. We’ve already seen compelling examples of people hacking into this available data for the public good. MORE
How Web APIs Unlock Value in the Cloud. That is where a web API comes in. Just as the power of crowds has populated the social content repositories of Web 2.0 — YouTube videos, Facebook updates, tweets, and more — the web API enables designers and developers to re-purpose the body of knowledge that is the cloud. Here are some examples of how companies have used a web API to create more value. The Google Map API is the most used web API. MORE
The venture firm as an API. With a strong parallel to OccupyWallStreet, 500 Startups aims to function as an API that connects ecosystem participants around a physical space and a distributed talent pool. MORE
If you are a web developer in Boulder who does stuff with APIs, I encourage you to join our friends at Singly on Thursday 7/26 at the Bitter Bar from 5:30 – 8:30. They are building an organic network of friends and evangelists around APIs and looking to have a conversation with anyone interested. Several Foundry Group companies who are API-centric will be there including FullContact and SendGrid are co-sponsoring the event and helping to promote it. MORE
They also provide an API that connects online stores to all the relevant shipping providers both locally and internationally. Other mashup APIs already exist that aggregate data from different carriers, but there’s yet to be any clear winner in the space. We believe that Shippo offers the right algorithm, API, and web interface to change the game for mid-sized e-commerce shipping. Or, developers can integrate the Shippo API directly to their own website. MORE
For API changes, we perform parity testing where we record API requests and responses from production, and then playback the recorded API requests against the new code and compare the responses from the system under test against actual responses recorded from production. Because the API is stateful (a POST or PUT changes the state), we have developed heuristics for performing the comparisons in a parity test. MORE
The biggest flip the technology age has done on the industrial era is the open API. For the uninitiated, an open API (Application Program Interface) is a word used to describe sets of technologies that enable websites to interact with each other. Entrepreneurs get a shot at being acquired by the firms whose API they focus on. The open API idea has to be one of the major reasons why technology companies are eating the world. MORE
Mapbox is an API company, not a mapping company. The map simply was the output of the API. And, like the best API companies we’ve been involved in, such as Gnip (now part of Twitter), it was right at the intersection of our Glue theme and our Protocol theme. Investments API Glue gnip investment mapbox MapQuest maps pantheon protocolThis morning, Mapbox announced a $52.55 million Series B financing. MORE
It integrates with every web-based or mobile application that uses any sort of contact data, and it is available to every developer via an API. If you are a developer , FullContact’s goal is for you to use their cloud address book via their API. Uncategorized address book API contacts fullcontact TechStarsIt’s 2012 and the “contact information problem” is getting exponentially worse. MORE
A few days ago I blogged about the serious advantages of embracing an open API. There is no doubt in my mind that Statigram will end up being acquired by the API forefather assuming it continues its rapid growth trajectory. MORE
This week marks the annual orgy of PR excess known as the Consumer Electronics Show. More than 150,000 (mostly male) visitors, many sporting T-shirts with mysterious acronyms like “4K in HD3D”, will. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]. MORE
Events & Happenings API competition Rakuten Singapore startup startups MORE
Facebook Graph API Explorer and InVision Craft Continue reading on Austin Startups ». tech texas sketch api design MORE
When you have a site called Hacker News that’s a destination for developers, startups and anyone interested in the startup world, it only only makes sense to have an API. The API is read-only for now, but the YC-backed site could enable to private per-user info using OAuth in the future. MORE
API Related Topics Feld Thoughts
MARCH 13, 2011
The only thing that was missing for me was an API. Fitbit released the Fitbit API quietly a month or so ago. My Investments API fitbitI love Fitbit. The product is great, the team is great, and I’m psyched to be an investor. I’ve been a user for a while – my data is public – but I just recently started using the food tracker which is superb. I’ve encouraged them to make more noise as some great applications are coming out.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 24, 2012
If you are a web developer in Boulder who does stuff with APIs, I encourage you to join our friends at Singly on Thursday 7/26 at the Bitter Bar from 5:30 – 8:30. They are building an organic network of friends and evangelists around APIs and looking to have a conversation with anyone interested. Several Foundry Group companies who are API-centric will be there including FullContact and SendGrid are co-sponsoring the event and helping to promote it.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 29, 2015
” Oracle also got copyrights to the Java APIs. The post Oracle’s Java API Suit Against Google – Five Years Later appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Five years ago, in August 2010, I asked the question Have We Reached The Software Patent Tipping Point? Oracle sued Google over a series of Java-related patents they got when they acquired Sun.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 26, 2010
I’m now sitting in the API track and the first two presentations have been dynamite. Clay Loveless from Mashery just did a presentation titled “ 5 Things I Hate About Your API-TOS“. For simplicity, I’ll call the company providing the API’s the “platform company” and the companies using the API as the “ecosystem partners.” Tags: Technology API Glue TOS I’m at the Glue Conference all day. So far, it’s far exceeded my already high expectations.
Austin Startup
MARCH 10, 2017
Facebook Graph API Explorer and InVision Craft Continue reading on Austin Startups ». tech texas sketch api design
YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 2, 2012
But with these new API changes, I’m not sure how or even if we can stay in business. I didn’t really look into the recent API changes. Second, Facebook’s API is RETARDED. I love(d) Twitter’s API because of the freedom and ease of use.
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 2, 2010
Google Code just release the API console. It better organizes Google’s APIs and I even discovered a couple new APIs. Custom Search API - Google Custom Search enables you to search over a slice of the web, such as your own website, or a collection of websites.
Start Up Blog
JANUARY 17, 2012
The biggest flip the technology age has done on the industrial era is the open API. For the uninitiated, an open API (Application Program Interface) is a word used to describe sets of technologies that enable websites to interact with each other. Entrepreneurs get a shot at being acquired by the firms whose API they focus on. The open API idea has to be one of the major reasons why technology companies are eating the world.
The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
Daniel Jacobson ( Twitter | LinkedIn ), is currently director of engineering for the Netflix API. Prior to Netflix, Daniel ran application development for NPR where, among other things, he created the NPR API. He is also the co-author of APIs: A Strategy Guide.
Austin Startup
MARCH 16, 2017
This week, I was scheduled to publish the 4th in the Lontra Ventures Spotlight series on Stoplight , an Austin-based, API design and testing company. Trust me, APIs are a REALLY BIG DEAL. An API is an Application Programmable Interface , or simply how programmers communicate with apps.
The Next Web
OCTOBER 7, 2014
When you have a site called Hacker News that’s a destination for developers, startups and anyone interested in the startup world, it only only makes sense to have an API. The API is read-only for now, but the YC-backed site could enable to private per-user info using OAuth in the future.
Guy Nirpaz
MAY 29, 2010
Guy Nirpaz Blog Thoughts from my startup journey Salesforce API and Axis2 Here’s a useful tip for Java developers integrating with the SalesForce API. To read the explanation, just have a look here Tags: api , axis2 , salesforce This entry was posted on Sunday, May 30th, 2010 at 3:35 am and is filed under Uncategorized.
VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 4, 2012
In other words, a way to reach a bunch of location based apps at scale via API and paying only for those that convert. In terms of competition, theDealmap (bought by Google) and Placecast (location-based offers by SMS) come close, but don’t really offer a similar API service. Israeli startup FootTraffic offers advertisers a performance marketing platform for location-based offers.
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
For multimedia capabilities, camera and video functionality lead the way with just over half of the respondents choosing these APIs. Least Desired Features/APIs.
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 27, 2012
Amazon on Tuesday announced the release of its Maps API, now out of beta and integrated into the Amazon Mobile App SDK. The Amazon Maps API has two core features: Interactive Maps: You can embed a Map View in your app for customers to pan, zoom and fling around the world.
mashable.com
JUNE 30, 2012
How Web APIs Unlock Value in the Cloud. That is where a web API comes in. Just as the power of crowds has populated the social content repositories of Web 2.0 — YouTube videos, Facebook updates, tweets, and more — the web API enables designers and developers to re-purpose the body of knowledge that is the cloud. Here are some examples of how companies have used a web API to create more value. The Google Map API is the most used web API.
gigaom.com
JULY 10, 2012
AT&T opens up Watson API. Ma Bell has taken the locks off of its Watson speech application programming interfaces (APIs), allowing any developer to access them. AT&T opens up Watson API. Tech News and Analysis. Events. Books. Research. Apple. Cleantech. Cloud. Europe.
Fred Destin
FEBRUARY 3, 2012
The venture firm as an API. With a strong parallel to OccupyWallStreet, 500 Startups aims to function as an API that connects ecosystem participants around a physical space and a distributed talent pool.
The Next Web
JUNE 14, 2013
The EE 4G UK hackathon now has its API partners signed up and confirmed, paving the way for the start of the competition that the company hopes will spur the development of apps that make use of its 4G LTE network speeds.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 17, 2015
Mapbox is an API company, not a mapping company. The map simply was the output of the API. And, like the best API companies we’ve been involved in, such as Gnip (now part of Twitter), it was right at the intersection of our Glue theme and our Protocol theme. Investments API Glue gnip investment mapbox MapQuest maps pantheon protocolThis morning, Mapbox announced a $52.55 million Series B financing.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 25, 2012
I now have a photo of my card on my iPhone and due to the magic of the FullContact CardShark API the data was automagically turned into a vCard and a Google contact. My friends at FullContact talk about how they do this in their post If Only CardMunch Were An API… Oh Yes We Did! My Investments API CardMunch fullcontact vCardThere are some things I wish would just go away forever. Business cards are one of those things.
Version One Ventures
APRIL 11, 2019
For API changes, we perform parity testing where we record API requests and responses from production, and then playback the recorded API requests against the new code and compare the responses from the system under test against actual responses recorded from production. Because the API is stateful (a POST or PUT changes the state), we have developed heuristics for performing the comparisons in a parity test.
Austin Startup
MAY 30, 2014
provider of a cloud managed, on-demand security and operations video management system, today announced the Eagle Eye Video API, targeted at businesses and developers integrating video into their applications. Eagle Eye Networks, Inc., Digital Eagle Eye Networks
Feld Thoughts
JULY 13, 2012
It integrates with every web-based or mobile application that uses any sort of contact data, and it is available to every developer via an API. If you are a developer , FullContact’s goal is for you to use their cloud address book via their API. Uncategorized address book API contacts fullcontact TechStarsIt’s 2012 and the “contact information problem” is getting exponentially worse.
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 11, 2011
So what will become of Quora now that it is getting an API ? I was having a great conversation with Jason Schwartz the other night about Quora --how the current Quora community feels a lot like Twitter did in the early days. Conversation is of high quality and it's really easy to find thoughtful contributors. We both agreed that the overall quality of what we find on Twitter is down from where it was.
Version One Ventures
AUGUST 25, 2015
News 1099 API B2B Marketplace Shippo ToolsAs you’re building your marketplace, consider which tools and technology to leverage.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 30, 2011
I work with a lot of consumer startups that are dealing with location-aware information. From a programmer perspective, it’s just plain hard. Not only is it difficult to find a great source for quality geo data, but then you typically want to correlate it across multiple social systems (Foursquare, Yelp, etc). Some of my favorite code monkeys have just made this problem a little easier. Infochimps is pioneering a somewhat new category, named data-as-a-service. Today [.].
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 12, 2011
Jobs API Boulder orbotixMy friends at Orbotix are hiring. Following is the list of open positions. If you fit the description, like playing with robots, want free beer all day, and live in Boulder, email them a note with a resume. - Game Designer : Are you passionate about gaming and have a deep understanding of game design and game mechanics?
Version One Ventures
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
Listen to Amazon: two-pizza teams and internal APIs. Two of the reasons Amazon is able to keep its momentum even as a 97,000-employee giant are pizza teams and APIs…. Internal APIs: Every internal product should have an API, just as if it were developed for an external client. The added bonus is that APIs lay the groundwork for the productization of internal tools. Bezos mandated that all IT assets be exposed as APIs.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 19, 2013
Events & Happenings API competition Rakuten Singapore startup startups
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 27, 2012
57-percent of mobile application users would consider purchasing their holiday gifts this year on a mobile device, according to a survey conducted by API technology provider Apigee. In the News API Apigee holidays mobile apps mobile commerce mobile shopping
Version One Ventures
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
They also provide an API that connects online stores to all the relevant shipping providers both locally and internationally. Other mashup APIs already exist that aggregate data from different carriers, but there’s yet to be any clear winner in the space. We believe that Shippo offers the right algorithm, API, and web interface to change the game for mid-sized e-commerce shipping. Or, developers can integrate the Shippo API directly to their own website.
Version One Ventures
MARCH 14, 2014
For example, we see horizontal platforms like Twilio that replaces all the telecom hardware with an API for phone, VoIP, and messaging. This is what Garry Tan has called the API-ization of everything : “Where there is paper to push, a call to answer, or a purchase to approve, there is an API coming to replace it.”. News API Application programming interface Braintree Facebook Programmable Web Salesforce.com Shopify Twilio twitter
VC Cafe
JANUARY 7, 2013
This week marks the annual orgy of PR excess known as the Consumer Electronics Show. More than 150,000 (mostly male) visitors, many sporting T-shirts with mysterious acronyms like “4K in HD3D”, will. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 8, 2012
But the power in PowerInbox – pardon the pun – comes into its own with the opening up of its APIs to developers and partners. Ideaspotting APIs email email technology PowerInboxEmail is dead. We’ve all heard that clarion call more than a few times.
Version One Ventures
AUGUST 15, 2016
News API healthcare Marketplace network effects patient health dataIt’s been a year since we published our series on digital healthcare which I co-wrote with Jonathan Libov of Union Square Ventures. The reception was overwhelmingly positive (we’re thankful to all of you who gave us feedback) and opened up the floodgates to patients, medical professionals, entrepreneurs, and investors who still reach out to us with their pains, thoughts, experiences, and goals for the healthcare system.
Start Up Blog
JANUARY 24, 2012
A few days ago I blogged about the serious advantages of embracing an open API. There is no doubt in my mind that Statigram will end up being acquired by the API forefather assuming it continues its rapid growth trajectory.
VC Cafe
DECEMBER 20, 2012
Apple Appstore Appsfire Levi Shapiro 2012 ad networks advertising Android Angry Birds API App Store apple category developers Discovery Draw Something entertainment Games Google handset IP iPhone Lifestyle maps marketing mobile music Navigation rovio sdk social networks statistics UI What's AppNearly 100,000 new developers created applications this year for the App Store, which rakes in 4x more revenue than Google Play.
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 15, 2010
W ibiya , the two year old on-site social toolbar provider (held by parent company Modular Patterns), has announced it is launching a developer platform and an open API which will enable third party applications on the Wibiya toolbar. and AddThis to make it easier for developers to use their different APIs and create great apps that will be added to the Wibiya platform.
Version One Ventures
MAY 1, 2014
News API Application programming interface Databases Government MineCraft Open Data Open Data Day OpenGov Vancouver I’m fascinated by the Open Data movement, particularly when it comes to government where the concept of open data hinges on the belief that data is a public asset – just like highways and parks – and should be made available to all. We’ve already seen compelling examples of people hacking into this available data for the public good.
Version One Ventures
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
They also provide an API that connects online stores to all the relevant shipping providers both locally and internationally. Other mashup APIs already exist that aggregate data from different carriers, but there’s yet to be any clear winner in the space. We believe that Shippo offers the right algorithm, API, and web interface to change the game for mid-sized e-commerce shipping. Or, developers can integrate the Shippo API directly to their own website.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 14, 2019
While the RVR belly rubbing and behind-the-ear scratching APIs need some work, you can also get a $40 gift certificate from Rover to have a human do this. Happy Pi Day everyone. If you love dogs, or robots, or dogs and robots, you’ll love the video below.
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