This is about developers and API owners having conflict

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Amazon, Lendle and the Danger of Using Open APIs: Tech News and Analysis «

Ebook-lending service Lendle, whose access to the Amazon API was just cut off, has become the latest poster child for a simple maxim: Bui...

Google API House Cleaning @ API Evangelist

by Kin Lane on Google has had a busy year when it comes to APIs. So far this year they've launched 6 new APIs: As they add APIs to their ...

Facebook Developer API, the suck.

Moe just pointed me to Facebook's Developer API. Facebook claims that its HTTP based API is RESTful... but the use of XML and HTTP (and a...

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"Thank you Google for breaking all my apps and extensions without warning!" That's what Mohamed Mansour, creator of the Google+ extension...

Angry Twitter App-Makers Plan Secret Meetings On How To Replace Twitter

Many of the people behind the mobile and desktop clients more people use to access Twitter than Twitter.com itself are very angry with Tw...

Here’s Why Developers Are Scaring Twitter: Tech News and Analysis «

Twitter is downplaying suggestions that it's on a crusade against developers. But a new analysis of Twitter traffic indicates why the com...

Twitter "Screwed Up" With Developers, Founder Says

Like a teenager apologizing to his parents for having a party and breaking the furniture, Twitter co-founder and former CEO Evan Williams...

Sponsor Post: Developer Community 101: Treat Your Developers Like Customers

Editor's note: We offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write posts and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as wri...

Sponsor Post: Developer Community 101: Treat Your Developers Like Customers

Editor's note: We offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write posts and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as wri...

Free-ranged Ethically Treating APIs

Ian Glazer Research Director3 years at Gartner 16 years IT industry Ian Glazer is a research director on the Identity and Privacy Strateg...

Building Your Business Around Google or Any Other APIs @ API Evangelist

by Kin Lane on I'm reading all the starred items in my Google Reader about Google's latest closing of APIs, most notably Google Translate...

Twitter and App Makers Feel Growing Pains

The relationship between Twitter and the outside developers that build its apps is a little like the one between sharks and the small fis...

Things To Hate About API-TOS

I'm at the Glue Conference all day. So far, it's far exceeded my already high expectations. I'm now sitting in the API track and the firs...

Twitter Api hate

Amplicate collects opinions of people who hate and love Twitter Api. Currently more than 67% of people hate Twitter Api. Read their 199 o...

Devil’s advocate on Twitter’s OAuth change – Marco.org

Twitter announced yesterday that third-party apps will have their access to direct messages (DMs) revoked at the end of the month, and th...

Angry developers are better for Twitter than lost business

Twitter sparked quite the controversy last week when news leaked that the microblogging service would possibly eliminate the need for man...

Twitter's Delicate Balance of Openness | Sum of the Web

Twitter is balancing an Open API and generating revenue. That balance is one Open AIM had to deal with as well.

I hate you, PayPal

I've been fighting with PayPal's Website Payments Pro API for the last week at work. If you're considering using PayPal for anything more...

Your API Sucks

We've learned the hard way that websites need great user experiences to survive. So why aren't we being this aggressive with API design? ...

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Research into Webhooks

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Stories and example of companies using embeds and widgets effectively.

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These are stories about 3D Printing

Storified by Kin Lane · Thu, Oct 27 2011 02:10:09

3D Printing Explained [Infographic] - Shareables

3D printing is a rapidly developing technology that allows simple objects to be perfectly replicated. While still at an early stage, the potential of the field is truly world-changing. This infographic from Sculpteo is a great introduction to the world of 3D printing.

These are stories I've gathered about API monetization.

Storified by Kin Lane · Thu, Oct 27 2011 02:21:46

The Future of Advertising will be Integrated

Banner Ads. They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. They were very effective back then, with the original ad garnering a 78% click-through rate (CTR)!  I guess from there we had nowhere to go but down. Nowadays banner ads get on average 0.2% CTR meaning for every 1,000 ads that are served up only 2 people click on them. And as Jon Steinberg of Buzzfeed points out, the CTRs for social media banner ads are just 0.08%. Despite its creation more than 15 year...

Should Your API Be Free or Pay-to-Play?

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. In our ongoing series on APIs, we've covered whether to offer an API and how to get people using it. Now, we're delving into one of the most important questions an API-offering company can ask: free or paid?

monetization - API and business models - OnStartups - Stack Exchange

What is your take on content-provider web-service startups (e.g. Yelp) exposing an API to their content? How does it affect the business model of the service and how can you monetize it? What benefits does the API add to the services?

How do I monetize an API? | Mashery Blog

In speaking with hundreds of companies about their API strategy, a common question is about monetization - "How do we monetize our API?" We thought this would be a great conversation for our first post. Our friend Dave McClure has a quick and simple answer - "bake your business model into your API."

API Business Models and Monetization

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YouTube's new APIs and how Google will monetize them | ZDNet

YouTube rolled out a series of new APIs that turn the site into a wide-ranging video service, but the more interesting aspect may be monitoring how Go

API Value Creation, Not Monetization « Laura Merling’s Blog

On a daily basis I get questions about API monetization models. I planned on writing a blog post on the topic and in the process began trying to model monetization to verticals which led me to think about why people have so many questions about API monetization. There are two reasons: The API is a distribution channel, and when you think new distribution channel there is an expectation around revenue opportunities. And, if you are the person in your company trying to define the business case...

API Value Creation, Not Monetization

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