Companies wanted an API in the same way they wanted a website in late 1990s.
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"This is just where we started with a few friends to test the API in its early stage, " says Google Glass developer evangelist Timothy Jordan.
With this API in place we'll be able to decouple the presentation and data layers of the application and build a new, streamlined signature process.
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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.
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.
Important: This is a preliminary document for an API or technology in development.
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Now, all is not completely sunny in API land for IFTTT, either.
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Cavaney's remarks came at an API meeting Tuesday in Washington, where the group announced its new policies for energy security, calling for more energy efficiency, investment in new technologies and a diversity of fuel types.
Without approval, we don't expect to see any standard apps with the API built-in, however with the headset's current wide open nature, we assume interested hackers will be able to get the software running if they so desire.
As Daniel Jacobson posted to Netflix's API developer blog, it will stop including expiration dates in the public API.
In general, API management involves implementing and enforcing a whole set of rules governing who has access to what, and in how much quantity.
The people who build products around an API see your content in ways that would never occur to you.
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In an API business model, user privacy is protected because their data is only available to those permitted to access it by the user.
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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.
If you have data or functionality that can help other companies, you can learn as much as possible from it and gain advantage by wrapping it in an API and providing it to partners.
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In Q4 Twitter will release an API for large advertisers to automate and publish ads in bulk directly onto the service, starting with Promote Tweets and Promoted Accounts, Reuters reported.
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In fact, API says it does not want to deter the production of alternative fuels.
The first set of methods, Read API, will be released in March, 2013 and will allow anyone to retrieve data on petitions, signatures, and responses.
On Tuesday, TokBox, which seeks to make it easier for developers to incorporate live group video into their apps, announced that its OpenTok API was leveraging WebRTC both in Chrome 23 and iOS. You can expect a lot more announcements like that to come.
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An integrated Facebook API let users share their accomplishments in real-time, and received bonus points for doing so.
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Many (most) go the advertising route, but Punchfork decided to try its hand at the API subscription model (read our in depth interview here).
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For now there is no mobile version, it doesn't loop in Instagram, there's no API (which would allow outside developers to build related apps), and it's only in English.
Asked if Sybase will extend AES to the Motorola Xoom and other devices, Sybase says that is contigent on device makers investing in the same engineering API work as Samsung.
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That has pushed the July 1 nationwide average tax on a gallon of gasoline, including the federal levy, up to 49.4 cents a gallon from 47 cents in January, the API calculates.
Now some of that language-processing power is available to everyone in the form of an API that developers can use to have Google distinguish between different categories of text.
We applaud AMD's and Microsoft's vision in creating the DirectX 11 API and this amazing new hardware and we can say without hesitation that it represents the future of gaming.
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In the simplest terms, an API is a set of code conventions which programmers can use to interact with an external data source or web service.
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While the app is still sorely lacking Push support, Sparrow believes that Apple may change the privacy guidelines for its Push API, which the company plans to include in version 1.2.
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Another feature rolling out is "Free Preview" which lets viewers watch before they're finished logging in, while a Server Side API on the way should open up access to more apps on more devices.
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