Google Labs unveils API for its Web page creation service
Google Inc. has a new API for Google Sites that should make it easier to add content and edit Web pages.
Follow that tweet! Twitter working on new API that will pinpoint Twitterers' whereabouts
Interested in tracking the Twitterers in your city or even your neighborhood? Or maybe you want to track the tweets sent from an area where there's a major event or disaster?
The micro-blogging service says everything's fixed but asks developers to alert it to ongoing problems
The technical problems that affected the performance and availability of third-party Twitter applications in recent days have been fixed, the micro-blogging and social networking company said Monday evening.
The future of Yahoo BOSS, Search Monkey and Yahoo search APIs is uncertain after the search deal with Microsoft
Yahoo's high-profile and widely used search APIs (application programming interfaces) and search programs for external developers are up in the air after the company's decision to outsource its search engine services to Microsoft.
Individual sellers are highly unlikely to need PayPal X
I just finished watching the PayPal Platform Preview, which was PayPal's official announcement of their new open development platform (it was previously leaked on TechCrunch). Officially called "PayPal X," the platform was presented by Osama Bedier (VP of platform and emerging technology) in broad, almost utopian terms, as something that would unleash waves of innovation transforming the way goods and services are delivered. Maybe.
Moving workloads from Amazon cloud to Rackspace will be possible
Rackspace Tuesday released an API allowing developers greater access to the company's cloud computing platform, and said that customers will be able to move workloads back and forth between the Amazon and Rackspace clouds.
New APIs will let developers create different payment scenarios funneled through PayPal's system
PayPal will soon open up its platform to third-party developers, allowing them to build applications with a range of money transfer options.
The Maps Data API lets developers host geodata in Google servers.
Google has released a new API for Google Maps designed to relieve developers of the burden of maintaining their own repositories for geographical data.
New Facebook app lets users see realtime streams running on desktops or cell phones
Facebook, Inc. Monday moved to virtually free the activity streams of its users.
Applications created with the new API will for the first time let members manage activity streams outside of Facebook
Highlighting the rising popularity of real-time action notifications in social networks, Facebook will let external developers access the "activity stream" its members display on their profiles.
Palm’s new operating system is designed with the mobile Web in mind
Underneath the sleek exterior, the multi-touch display and the sliding keyboard of the upcoming Palm Pre smartphone is the real innovation: a new kind of operating system designed with the mobile Web in mind.
The terms of service include three years of support for the App Engine API, Documents List Data, SketchUp Ruby API, and the YouTube online video API, and one year of support for the CheckOut API
Google has posted on its Code Blog updated deprecation terms of service for five APIs, including the App Engine cloud service, which indicate service terms for these APIs when they are either deprecated or a newer version is introduced.
Microsoft has unveiled a revamped Live Search API that developers can use to embed search on Web sites.
Microsoft Thursday unveiled a revamped Live Search API that developers can use to embed search on Web sites with more support for frequently used Web-development technologies and less restrictions on how third parties use the technology on their Web sites.
New API will let developers create apps that can obtain information from Gears about end users' geographic location.
Google has upgraded with a geolocation API its Gears browser plug-in, which is designed to let users work with Web-based applications when they aren't online.
Android 1.0 won't include a "comprehensive" Bluetooth API.
While developers have been hard at work building Android applications that can use GPS (Global Positioning System), Wi-Fi and cameras, they just discovered they likely won't be able to offer applications that use one common mobile phone feature: Bluetooth.