OpenID14 items tagged “apis”
Yahoo! Internet Location Platform. As an ex-Yahoo! this is really exciting—WhereOnEarth (a London company acquired by Yahoo! in 2005) provide the incredibly detailed geographical data used by Flickr, Upcoming and FireEagle—and now it’s available as an external API. 
12th May 2008, 9:02 pm
Google AJAX Search API: Flash and Server Side Access. Over a year after Google shot down their SOAP Search API, they’ve quietly released a JSON based one under the guise of supporting “Flash and other non JavaScript environments”. Comes with the strange requirement that an HTTP referer be sent with every request; the API key is optional. 
22nd April 2008, 7:16 pm
Introducing the Google Contacts Data API. Brilliant! (and about time)—now there’s no excuse for asking your users for their Gmail username and password so you can import contacts from their address book. Yahoo! and Microsoft need to catch up on this one fast. 
6th March 2008, 11:29 pm
flickr.places.findByLatLon. New API method for Flickr Places. If only Flickr could return a bounding box for each place... 24th January 2008, 1:05 pm
Google Chart API (via) Really neat charting API from Google—simply encode your chart data and configuration options in to a URL and Google will serve up a nicely rendered PNG. No API key required. It’s like a documented version of the Google Groups rounded corners API. 
6th December 2007, 5:37 pm
OAuth Core 1.0. The final spec. Expect to see this crop up all over the place in the next few months. 5th December 2007, 3:39 am
Figuring out OpenSocial
So it’s out, and lots of people are talking about it, but I’m still trying to work out exactly what it is. There seem to be two parts to it: a standardised set of GData APIs for accessing lists of friends and their activities (like the Facebook news feed) and a bunch of JavaScript APIs for enabling developers to write hostable widgets and “container sites” to embed those widgets. [... 289 words]
Google Announces the OpenSocial API. I doubt the similarity between this and Brad Fitzpatrick’s social graph paper are a coincidence—what IS impressive is that he only joined Google a couple of months ago. 31st October 2007, 4:34 pm
New on Dopplr: The Past (with Pictures). Dopplr’s trip pages automatically display your Flickr/Facebook photos that were taken during the duration of the trip—simple and smart integration of third party sites. 20th October 2007, 11:25 am
OAuth: Your valet key for the Web. OAuth is a really important new specification that aims to solve the “give this application permission to do X on my behalf” problem once and for all. 21st September 2007, 11:34 pm
The best reason to always build out APIs for your product is that it makes it easier for the rest of the world to extend your product or service rather than start competitors.
— Dick Costolo 16th March 2007, 10:41 am
Facebook Query Language. The Facebook API now lets you run SQL-like queries. You can’t do joins but you can perform very simple subselects. 25th February 2007, 12:06 pm
Beginning of the end for open web data APIs? Google just ditched their SOAP API in favour of a crippled Ajax widget. What are the implications for other free-as-in-beer APIs? 20th December 2006, 12:44 am
Ten Web 2.0 APIs you can really use. An excellent collection. 18th December 2006, 7:01 pm
