Author Archive for Kin Lane

APIs in DFW

I just got back from the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I visited Dallas last night to help kick off the first gathering of the DFW API Professionals Meetup.
We got together at Microsoft around 6PM and I talked from 6:30 until 8:00, evolving on my From Web, …

Adding API Broker Under Monitoring for API Aggregators

As I’m monitoring the API space I’m trying to create meaningful grouping for companies to belong when tracking API trends. My groupings are sometimes in alignment with what we hear in the tech blogosophere, but other times I try new definitions to he…

The Dark Matter That Make APIs Work

I encounter many enterprise folks who dismiss APIs as nothing more that just one of the technical building blocks of SOA. Folks who, no matter how much I explain, will never see APIs beyond a technical specification and implementation.
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Potential for API Aggregators to Provide Valuable Industry Data

I’ve been tracking on a trend in the API space that I call API aggregation. Companies like Singly and Adigami are aggregating APIs into more meaningful API stacks, than any single API provider can deliver on their own.
In my regular monitoring, I’m a…

My Talk Tomorrow Night at the Dallas-Forth Worth API Professionals Meetup

After looking through the list of folks who have RSVP’d for the DFW API Professionals Meetup in Dallas tomorrow night, it looks like an interesting mix of tech and business folk. The tech group is definitely the larger, with a mix of mobile, web and …

The White House Releases An Open Data Strategy

Photo Credit – White House

President Obama issued an Executive Order this last week – Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information. A move that will signficantly define the fast growing API economy.  But bef…

When API Success Signals Begin Working Against You

Curently I’m immersed in discovering, vetting and tracking on signals that show me which companies are trending in the API space. I’m looking for signals that will tell me which companies are making movements on a week to week basis, and when the blo…

Get To Know Which Languages Your API Developers Are Using

Accounting API platform Xero has been taking a deeper look into the languages that their developers are using when integrating with the Xero API. Currently there are 1,600 active applications communicating with the Xero API, from a mix of Xero add-on …

Twitters Developer Area is More Embeddable Than API

Does anyone else notice the evolution of the Twitter developer area? The site has taken a page from the LinkedIn playbook and become more about embeddable buttons, badges and widgets than about APIs.  

Granted, you can click on documentation and …

Overview Of Backend as a Service (BaaS) White Paper

I’ve been working on expanding the amount of research and writing I can do via API Evangelist lately. In the last couple weeks I rolled out new projects in three areas: API Toolkits, API Trends, API Priorities. This new approach is helping me focus …