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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...Webpronews
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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
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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.- PeteSearch: Why API Providers Hate YouPhoto by Chris JD Between the shutdown of Ubermedia and the company's announcement that it will not allow any new third-party clients, th...
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...Google Translate API v2 - Google Code
Important: Google Translate API v2 is now available as a paid service only, and the number of requests your application can make per day ...Google Translate API to Go "Kaputt" in December
Proving to be too popular, the Google Translate API will be discontinued December 1 due to what the company characterizes as "extensive a...Google pulls the rug out from under web service API developers, nixes Google Translate and 17 others | ZDNet
One of the most popular public web services on the Internet, the Google Translate API, was deprecated without warning Thursday and will g...Colin Loretz - Why the Basecamp API sucks (an update on Basecamp for Salesforce.com)
There have been a lot of questions about whether or not this toolkit and the application will be available so I wanted to get the latest ...Vic Gundotra: Google+ Doesn't Intrude On Social With Ads, Piss Off Developers By Changing APIs
Speaking on stage at SXSW, the head of Google+ and Google's social efforts, Vic Gundotra, made some digs at Facebook's ads being intrusiv...