The company just released its new Data API to allow developers the ability to create innovative ways to access and display their data.
For example, if your business infrastructure requires XML or JSON data formats, or an API to extract office data and transmit it to the field, then make sure you inquire with the mobile App vendor to see what they can offer.
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While this information is more comprehensive than what third-party providers have, Twitter is also making this data available via an API to these third-party providers to use.
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.
Now, the CrunchBase team has started to demonstrate what top developers using the CrunchBase API do with the data.
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His greatest challenge with getting people to pay for access to the API is the lack of available data, like nutrition and preparation steps, to support the needs of potential users.
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By creating an API, you gain control of your data and start to understand who is using it and why they find it valuable.
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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.
Advertisers can mix and copy ad campaign data within third-party services that use the AdWords API.
With such data in hand, you can clearly understand how your API is best used and know where to invest.
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But as powerful as the app is, just as powerful is the way Census is releasing the underlying data through its first publicly available application programming interface (API).
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In my last post, I defined Right Time Experiences as experiences that are derived by analyzing and combining contextual data from mobile (such as location, motion, prior usage behaviors) with data from your social graph and with data from the cloud that may be accessible via an API (e.g. weather, available parking in a area, restaurant table availability).
Next we'll take a look at the Mirror API, which gives you the ability to exchange data and interact with the user over REST.
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After the user is prompted for his or her address, the Google Maps API fetches and incorporates dynamic maps and street view data of the user's hometown into the animated content of the video itself.
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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While we're sad to see the amount of data available to the public reduced and are still peeved over the public API being shelved entirely, after last week's incident we can certainly understand why.
Over 800 external developers have already accessed the API since its release, and users have generated over 24 million data requests.
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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.
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.
The open API will allow developers to create a wide range of applications built around location data.
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With this API an app can adjust the display of its UI elements that would access the data class.
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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.
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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An API is a specification of the dialect that computer programs or their components use to exchange data with each other or with the hardware they are running on.
Also new is a smart card API, which will let computer manufacturers add card readers to these handhelds, effectively locking up any data they hold if the devices are lost or stolen.
The API (application programming interface), available publicly on the internet, would allow LinkedIn to fetch my data from the relevant storage provider.
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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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