As Daniel Jacobson posted to Netflix's API developer blog, it will stop including expiration dates in the public API.
This API is independent from the request access API and will not prompt the user to grant or deny access.
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There was an issue with the Facebook Connect API that caused users on sites that use that API to redirect users to a Facebook error page.
For example, if a company is using your API, it makes sense to attempt to find out what the customers are doing on the site outside the use of your API.
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APIs can form the basis of business model, as in the case of Stripe, a payments API, or they can be a revenue stream (for example, the Google Maps API).
The API is designed to play nice with Android's existing location-based API, but it's unclear if the ease of transition will be enough to convince devs to take a chance on Amazon's offering.
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Other products being put out to pasture include the company's Building Maker, Cloud Connect, Apps Script's GUI builder and five UiApp widgets, Search API for shopping and the CalDAV API (for developers who aren't whitelisted, that is).
But to really make an API work, either internally or externally, you need to really create an API economy in which the owner of the asset being exposed, the publisher of the API, developers, and users of the apps all get substantial benefit.
For example, a telephony API gives you the power of the phone network without the need to purchase expensive hardware, a mapping API makes it possible for you to build customized, dynamic maps without signing contracts with data providers, and a payments API lets you accept payments without having to worry about complying with complex financial regulations, etc.
And Oracle, the software, hardware, and database company, recently announced its Cloud API managing infrastructure.
Once onboard, Apple rapidly productized Siri and has opened the API up to other developers.
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Advertisers can mix and copy ad campaign data within third-party services that use the AdWords API.
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In fact, API says it does not want to deter the production of alternative fuels.
The API allows you to buy large target audiences when you clearly identify parameters.
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So everything on a Famo.us page is searchable, indexable and live-swappable from API feeds.
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The cloud service can be easily integrated in your website via a Javascript or web API.
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Our affiliate scheme and API improvements will help developers seamlessly bring music into their greatest apps.
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They get 13 billion API requests a day to other sites, apps and clients.
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So the issues it is more likely to address are the AdWords API and scraping issues.
As to the exclusivity argument, it revolves around the AdWords API and AdWords for Search.
For example, it has its own API to allow others to create new applications.
Also, Google created an API, allowing users to implement maps within their own applications.
With the new API, developers can build customized tools for marketers on third party services.
Or a developer can build an application using their API to integrate it with yours.
The startup developed an API that gives developers direct access to its recipe database.
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Access to API keys is being progressively rolled out to developers who register interest.
Some Apps look business-ready, but lack robust enterprise compatibility, or integration API on the back end.
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When 3rd parties develop using this API, their sites will inevitably break when we change things.
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