The shift from a read-only to writable API marks a shift in strategy for Digg, which in recent months has focused on growing via social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
The software interface for Glass is a type of web app called the Mirror API, and not a full-blown operating system like Android.
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Freespace Sensor Modules are used by engineers to add inertial motion control to a product without having to learn about motion sensing or MEMS. These compact modules, the smallest of which is 9mm x 19mm x 2.5mm, are pre-calibrated for mass production, provide a well-documented API for interpreting motion, and provide data such as cursor position, linear acceleration, angular position, and angular velocity to enable the creation of novel applications.
While not nearly as visible a part of the business as the consumer-facing app, the API is a hit with developers, some 40, 000 of whom use it for location and venue data.
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Unlike services like Facebook and Twitter, which invited third-party developers to build on top of their platform and then turned around and offered competing services, App.net is conceived as a pure API a set of programming instructions that let developers access a real-time feed.
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The unleashing of a fully-baked crowdfunding API into the wider web will likely have widespread and unexpected consequences.
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Third-party API calls now total 75 million a day, a number that has doubled in the last 12 months.
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Once upon a time, Netflix was proud enough of its public API which enabled third-party services and apps to serve up its data and content in different ways that it opened a gallery to display them.
According to Caldwell, a self-described Twitter groupie, there was a point when Twitter considered building a business around its real-time API, but instead opted to focus on advertising.
Twitter took another big step in making its platform brand-friendly through its announcement of a new Ads API today, which will allow partners to manage marketing campaigns much more fully on the site.
Having a diversity of API partners also allows Foursquare to fine-tune its product even in the places where it needs it most.
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There are free Android and iOS apps for those that just want to check their vitals and be done with it, but tinkerers can have a field day with the open-source hardware and upcoming API.
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In this case, the European Union has made its position clear - on this side of the pond APIs are not copyrightable, and developers may produce a so-called "clean room" implementation of an API without running foul of copyright law.
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Or look at Twitter: API access gave birth to thousands of third-party apps, which transformed Twitter into a dominant communication platform.
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Announced via the company's developer-focused Hacks blog, navigator.mozPay() is a Javascript API crafted in the vein of Google Wallet, but with a key difference: it'll allow direct carrier billing and support for various payment providers.
Other projects included a dashboard that predicts when petitions will cross the 100, 000 signature threshold, documentation and step-by-step primers on using the API, email alert systems that inform you when a petition on an issue you care about has been created, and more.
In this, Forbes is part of a shift away from the page-based legacy of print to an API-based stream.
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So everything on a Famo.us page is searchable, indexable and live-swappable from API feeds.
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Net, which promises a commercial free, real-time socially driven information stream with an open API for developers.
He says that with the previous REST-based API there were things like naming confusion, thanks to "digg" being both a verb and a noun.
In tandem with the Stanford Mobile Inquiry Based Learning Environment program , Marvell has developed an easy-to-manage access point for a wide array of SMILE learning applications and has created an administration API and user interface, Plugmin, which provides access to many additional SMILE programs.
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