Posts Tagged with ‘api’

Brightkite has just announced that they are ready to start working with developers willing to beta test their now available API. Judging by ReadWriteWeb's coverage of Brightkite, they planned to have the API available in May but apparently it took them longer. The API is still not completely open for now, the interested developers will need to request access to the API but given the growing popularity of the location-based mobile social networking that Brightkite offers, I [...]

The MySpace Developer platform, announced last June and expected to have launched much earlier than now, will finally be launched on Tuesday, February 5th according to sources at the company. Beginning today, programmers can pre-register for the MySpace API program
Amit Kapur, who has been promoted to be MySpace's new Chief Operating Officer, will oversee the new platform and has already mentioned that the API will support Google OpenSocial from the start, though few other details have been released. It has [...]

Anyone who has been keeping track of all the microblogging services now available to internet users (Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr, Meemi, and the list goes on), probably knows that although having launched last June, Pownce has been in a beta stage for the past seven months, limiting the number of people who sign up only to those who have been invited.
Now, the latest brainchild of Kevin Rose (creator of Digg), has today evolved from an "invite-only" service into a public one. [...]

A few months ago I stumbled on a web site called Schmap. At the time, I had just reviewed Schmedley, wasn't super-impressed , and somehow lumped the two sites together in my mind. I'd forgotten all about Schmap until recently, when I learned how they solicit some of the information for their site.
Schmap is an online travel guide, which doesn't sound all that unique at first. Then you hit their home page, and notice raves from Time, The Washington Post, [...]

By now, you can pretty much call it a necessity for a social network to offer a platform for developers to create applications for. First was Facebook, and now MySpace, LinkedIn, Hi5, and several others have joined the fray.
Friendster is the latest addition, having announced that it is working on the Friendster Developer Program. This set of APIs will be just like other offerings, allowing developers to build applications that can be inserted into the profiles of Friendster users, [...]

A recent conversation with LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye at the New York Times, revealed some of the details involved with the business networking site's future plans to offer a developer platform.
With the Facebook Platform, developers are free to develop whatever applications their minds can come up with, which accounts for some useless apps, such as the Homeland Security Terror Alert Advisor that constantly shows the terror alert level in your profile and Booze Mail which allows you to send friends [...]

The launch of the Facebook Platform led to a massive increase in Facebook's user base, not to mention a slew of applications that developers are hoping will manage to generate some kind of revenue.
Since that launch, several other social networks, such as MySpace, Bebo and LinkedIn, have kept a watchful eye, with some making plans for their own development platforms.
Today, Hi5 looks to be the next social network to follow the example that Facebook has set, with their [...]

In 22 days, on October 1st, Mashup Challenge will launch, offering developers an interesting twist on creating new web 2.0 mashups.
For those of you who are not exactly sure of what a mashup is, it is "a combination of one or more data sources to create a unified interface and experience." For example, Dewspot is a mashup that integrates features of Twitter, YouTube, Google Maps, and Flickr into one central service.
So what's so different the Mashup Challenge? Well, it [...]

The Facebook API frenzy of several weeks past has been marked by a sort of mini-industry boom in which applications embedded into the social network have in some cases become quite noteworthy creations in and of themselves. Whether or not it’s politically correct to say so (and to be honest, I divulge this bit begrudgingly), Facebook has become a platform upon which other services may flourish in kind, and that is great news for many a Web 2.0 startup – [...]