Archive for May, 2012
API Monetization: Affiliate Network + Google URL Shortener API
Seems like there is a lot of opportunity to monetize data and resources flowing through API pipes, whether you’re an API owner or avid API consumer.
An API Could Be The Fancy’s Kill Move Against Pinterest
Pinterest and The Fancy are locked in a deathmatch, if you hadn’t heard? Compete wrote back in February that The Fancy was poised to take over a chunk of Pinterest’s traffic with their new webstore. Fast forward 5 months, The Fancy has just launched …
Healthcare Imaging API
There is a new API edition to the healthcare industry this week. lifeIMAGE launched an API that can be used by developers of healthcare applications, to enable the secure exchange of medical images and related patient records.
Norman Young, President…
Developer Evangelist – Yahoo! Inc. – Sunnyvale, CA
As a Yahoo! Developer Evangelist, you will educate and support our global developer community who are using Yahoo! APIs, Frameworks and Libraries. You will be the voice of Yahoo to our global developer community and an advocate for those developers within Yahoo! The role is for a web developer who is passionate about technology and connecting with developers. You will help create and maintain an engaged community of developers around innovative Yahoo technologies. This role will require extensive global traveling and networking, so you must be mobile and a social ninja.
Be a Feature in Other Platforms with an API
I talk with a lot of entrepreneurs in my travels to conferences, hackathons and online with my API evangelism. I get a lot of ideas pitched to me, asking me for feedback, and ultimately if I think their startup is viable.
I hear a lot of good ones, an…
Provide Release Valves for API Rate Limits
In my effort to better understand API access, I’m studying how API owners control access to their APIs, with most recently being around Rate Limiting. The other day I asked, why do we limit API access for developers, and even explored …
Product Engineer (API) – Tribune Media Services – Chicago, IL
As Tribune Media Services builds more complex products and services, it will be imperative to have a developer evangelist speak the same language as technical resources at our customers and partners. This API Product Engineer will fill that role for various products developed as part of TMS’ API strategy.
Support Engineer – Ricoh Innovations Inc – San Jose, CA
Ricoh EWS has a current opening for a Developer Support Engineer. We are looking for a talented engineer who can work closely with customers, channel partners and our developer community. This position will be responsible for personally solving technical issues during pilots and channel partner implementations. This is a hands-on, technical position.
API Management Platform for Universities
I recently stumbled across the University of Washington’s Web Services area, where they are working to create a single place to learn about, discover and connect with various APIs that are available at the University.
As the home page says:
Web …
Developer Evangelist – InMobi – San Mateo, CA
We’re looking for the right candidate to create momentum for InMobi’s developers products, helping developers turn their mobile apps in to mobile businesses. This person will identify partnerships and work with third parties to form strategic alliances, grow our community and stay up to date on the latest technical developments that will affect the business.
