Archive for June, 2012
Sr. Manager Product Marketing – Twilio Inc. – San Francisco, CA
service that empowers developers to build voice and SMS applications. Over 100,000 developers use Twilio… Incl. sales and developer evangelists) readiness…
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Twitter Continues to Restrict Access to Our Tweets
Access via the Twitter API is certainly not what it used to be.
The API Economy Welcomes Its Early Trade Wars
I’m on a roll tonight, writing about tension between API owners and consumers. After some driving around California this week, I’ve had time to ponder three recent episodes with Netflix, LinkedIn and Craigslist. This is my last post tonig…
What Does Your API Do?
After looking at over 6000 APIs, the most irritating thing for me when reviewing an API, is when I have to work to figure out what an API does. Many APIs just don’t communicate what their API does and articulate the value for developers.
Every A…
Tension Between API Owners and Consumers
We’ve had a couple of new API ecosystem flare ups in the last week. one from LinkedIn and the other from Netflix. I’m still working on my thoughts about both of these, but in the meantime I can’t help but think about the tension between …
The 100% Open Source API Platform I Was Looking For
This is a much quicker follow-up to last week’s post, Where Is The Open Source API Platform, than I anticipated. I just finished a demo of WSO2 API Manager, a completely open-source API management platform.
I got quite a few emails and DM&rsquo…
Launching APIs One Book At A Time
Last May, Pearson Publishing began the roll-out of their new API platform, by doing initial tests using their DK’s Eyewitness Travel Guide material, before moving on to a wider range of subjects. By the end of the summer they had rolled out a t…
Everyone is an API Evangelist in an API-Driven Company
I’ve had some amazing feedback on my post about the demand for API and developer evangelists. One great perspective was from the team over at Iron.io, who do cloud messaging, event handling, workers, scheduling and provide a key/value data…
Roundup of 20 API Service Providers in 2012
Its been over six months since I did my roundup of 11 API service providers on ProgrammableWeb. I’ve been seeing enough new entries into the space, I think its time to do another roundup, providing a single list of API service providers for you t…
Research: Measuring Developer Program Performance 2012
This original research from Developer Think Tank shows the jobs impact of the rapid adoption of smartphones and tablets and the applications that run on them: More companies are hiring more people to create and manage programs that work with developers who build applications for their platforms.
