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APIs are an innovation engine for developers
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - 09:53
APIs, or application programmable interfaces, are an important tool for mobile developers because they can help them create more useful applications, enhance their products and shorten the development cycle. Read More
If You Can Copyright an API, What Else Can You Copyright?
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 12:36

What does an API look like?

Sometimes, says Brian Pagano, it looks like this: /users. Or this: /products.

Brian Pagano is a software architect at Apigee, an outfit that does nothing but help companies build and operate APIs, interfaces that let one piece of software talk to another. In describing the APIs his company deals in, he wants to lend some perspective to another question, a question that may soon be answered by the federal judge overseeing the ongoing legal battle between Google and Oracle: Can you copyright an API?

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Platforms: Cambrian explosion or Devonian extinction?
Monday, April 23, 2012 - 12:44

As our use of computers becomes ubiquitous — pervading our lives from our phones to our TVs to our cars — software is becoming the primary means for interaction. And apps are undergoing a “Cambrian explosion” of availability and diversification. The new “place” of business is on the buyer’s device, and goods and services must be available where and when their buyers want them.

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A how-to guide for Web APIs
Monday, March 26, 2012 - 09:19

It's the must-have of 2012: a RESTful API to allow developers to interact with your enterprise software without any messy overhead or complicated instructions. But while Web APIs are designed to be simple for programmers, designing and hosting your own APIs is no small challenge. A new O'Reilly book, “APIs: a Strategy Guide,” tackles this challenge.

Written by Greg Brail, Daniel Jacobson and Dan Woods, this new tome dives into the business benefits, necessities and best practices for building an API. Jacobson, who by day is director of engineering for the Netflix API, said that construction is more about who will use the API than who is building it.

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Gilt Aims to Expand its Reach via Shopping Sites and Affiliates
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 11:03

Gilt Groupe Inc. is letting outside software developers connect with the data behind the retailer’s flash sales in hopes of creating new shopping applications that will attract customers. At the same time, it’s also launching an affiliate marketing program, providing bloggers and other fashion-related sites with the ability to earn commissions for shoppers they forward to Gilt’s e-commerce site. Read More

WIRED: API: Three Letters That Change Life, the Universe and Even Detroit
Monday, February 6, 2012 - 11:12

Sam Ramji met AT&T chief technology officer John Donovan on a speed date — or at least the tech world equivalent of a speed date.

In 2009, some big-name venture capitalists arranged for lightning-fast meetings between AT&T’s top brass and the brains behind various Silicon Valley startups, including Ramji’s new venture: Apigee, a company that builds and operates APIs. That’s tech-world speak for the software that lets things like Facebook, Google and Twitter talk to all those applications on your iPhone.

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Netflix Engineer Daniel Jacobson: The API at the Root of Your Business
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 10:40

The first place I had ever seen an API actually at work was as part of an operating system. It was a strange OS at that, a permutation of CP/M that used a graphical front end called GEM, which would later be ported to the Atari ST. The definition was explained to me like this: An "interface," as everyone knows, is a specification for how electrical components interconnect. Well, now it's possible for an application program - the part that does what users need - to interconnect with the operating system, which does what the computer needs. This way the operating functions don't have to be built into every program, they can just be handed off to the OS and the connection will look seamless. The principle was called a layer of abstraction. It was 1984, and it was the first time I'd heard the term. Read More

Usergrid + Apigee Will Lead to Cloud-based Mobile Data Tool, Say CEOs
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 11:08

Over the last year, a firm called Usergrid has been building an open source tool for leading mobile app developers through the process of creating back-end services for managing users. The Usergrid philosophy is contrary to quite a lot of the cloud-centered design methodology promoted by SaaS - the idea that the server can do everything, and a thin device can serve as the portal. Instead, Usergrid has promoted the idea of richer mobile apps that use Web services and APIs in a more passive, RESTful manner. Read More

More Mobile APIs Coming With Usergrid Acquisitions
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 11:14

Roll-your-own API service Usergrid has been acquired by API management company Apigee. Usergrid could potentially help Apigee reach out to mobile developers increasingly finding themselves needing APIs to interact with their apps. It’s part of a trend of developers not only being API consumers, but also API providers–at least privately to their own apps. Read More

API Management Service Apigee Acquires Mobile Data Platform Usergrid
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 - 11:20

Apigee, a provider of API management products and services, which we’ve referred to in the past as a “Google Analytics for APIs” has acquired the mobile cloud platform Usergrid. For those unfamiliar, Usergrid helps to make mobile app development easier by providing the APIs needed to manage data, users and events. The company provides these kind of core APIs for the backend so mobile developers can speed their time to market. Read More

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