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Questetra Helps Managing Business Processes Via The Web, Supports Google Apps
Questetra, which is based in Kyoto/Japan, is currently working on mobile-friendly features and an API to be rolled out in the near future. Apart from Salesforce.com’s Visual Process Manager, the Questetra BPM suite competes with SAP’s Visual Composer , Appian , and Intalio , amongst others.
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...Tags: Which employee does what, when, how and with which tools? That’s a critical question for
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Check Out the Companies That Make ReadWriteWeb Possible
Mashery : API management services |
You don't need to be a programmer or hire one - no language to learn, no plug-ins, no API. Mashery is a platform for Web services, allowing companies to manage their APIs using Mashery's expertise. At the "Business of APIs" conference, Mashery CEO Oren Michels explained to the audience that while APIs are a technology, their use is a business decision. Our readers know ReadWriteWeb as the blog that's ahead of the technology curve. Our sponsors know us as that, too.
ReadWriteWeb
- Sunday, March 14, 2010
6 Thoughts About Location Madness
We're excited about location too; see our enthusiastic write-ups What Twitter's Geolocation API Makes Possible and The Era of Location as Platform Has Arrived . It's hard for a 3rd party service to clearly identify whether these competing services are really talking about the same location, for example. No one tells their users what users on competing services are up to in the same location. Location based social networks - are you over it already? It feels like location is all we ever hear about anymore, especially this week leading up to SXSW .
ReadWriteWeb
- Thursday, March 11, 2010
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Building Modern Web Apps? Better Have A Deep Competency in Web 2.0, Open APIs, Widgets, Social Apps, and Much More
The Web competency bar is climbing fast. This ranges from appreciating why plain old HTTP is so good at underpinning the Web to more sophisticated topics like modern application architecture, the latest in online user experiences, next generation computing models (grid/cloud/utility/SaaS/PaaS), cost-effective scalability , user identity, network effects , Jakob's Law , analytics, operations, user community, as well as the many compelling new distribution models that are nearly mandatory in the first release of most products. This extensive set of competencies is what's
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Building Modern Web Apps? Better Have A Deep Competency in Web 2.0, Open APIs, Widgets, Social Apps, and Much More
The Web competency bar is climbing fast. This ranges from appreciating why plain old HTTP is so good at underpinning the Web to more sophisticated topics like modern application architecture, the latest in online user experiences, next generation computing models (grid/cloud/utility/SaaS/PaaS), cost-effective scalability , user identity, network effects , Jakob's Law , analytics, operations, user community, as well as the many compelling new distribution models that are nearly mandatory in the first release of most products. This extensive set of competencies is what's
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Yahoo Meme Opens Up Its API
Twitter has produced a vibrant ecosystem of third party applications thanks to the release of its API. If you take a look at Twitter app store oneforty, there are thousands of applications and sites that are using Twitter’s various APIs to build useful and innovative applications. Which is why Yahoo Meme, Yahoo’s microblogging tool that hopes to compete against Twitter and Tumblr, is releasing its own API for third party developer use. The problem: Yahoo Meme doesn’t have many users.
Yahoo is offering Meme’s open API built on top of the YQL
TechCrunch
- Monday, October 12, 2009
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Google Friend Connect Now Allows Deeper Integration with APIs
Google Friend Connect Is trying to catch up with Facebook Connect, and just now released its first set of APIs , which will let developers integrate Google Friend Connect more deeply into their sites and applications. The new APIs will allow site owners to use both JavaScript and REST APIs to embed Google Friend Connect directly into the markup language of each site and make it easier for to combine it with their existing login systems. Google Friend Connect offers a single sign-on service as well as several data portability features.
Google has also created APIs for
TechCrunch
- Thursday, March 12, 2009
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Payvment Enables Retail Storefronts On Facebook Via PayPal’s Adaptive Payments API
In an effort to compete with Amazon’s Flexible Payments API, PayPal recently announced its version of the API, called Adaptive Payments (which we scooped over the summer). PayPal’s API gives developers full access to PayPal’s features, allowing them a lot more freedom in building applications, which includes the ability to accept and distribute payments. Over the course of the past few month, PayPal has been working with several startups as part of a pilot program to show the capabilities of the API in anticipation of a broader rollout in November.
TechCrunch
- Wednesday, October 14, 2009
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Beyond the API: Why Companies Should Have a Presence on All Major Platforms
Much has been written lately about the rise of the API .
Offering Through APIs, we get to enjoy a range of innovative Twitter clients, wide
availability on major platforms should be as much of a priority as opening up via an API.
Just because an API enables companies to create a third party ecosystem around their service, it doesn't
Offering a programming interface to an online service is now standard practice amongst this generation of web companies. availability of maps and location information, custom search engines, and more.
ReadWriteWeb
- Monday, December 29, 2008
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3Scale’s API Outsourcing Service Now Out Of Beta
Barcelona-based 3Scale Networks is launching its API management service today at the Plugg conference (which is run by TechCrunch editor Robin Wauters). With every Web startup releasing their own APIs as a matter of course these days, 3Scale offers a startups who don’t want to deal with all the hassles of managing their own APIs their own enterprise Web service that does it for them.
3Scale starts 3Scale manages signups, tracks usage, offers user forums, stores online documentation, and handles online billing. The service runs on Amazon’s EC2, S3 ,and
TechCrunch
- Thursday, March 12, 2009
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Facebook Opens Up Its Stream API To Developers. Let The Conversation Wars Begin!
As we speculated this weekend, Facebook has opened up its activity stream through a new API for developers. One of the first apps to take advantage of this new API is Seesmic Desktop , A Twitter client which is now adding your Facebook feed through this API (something Tweetdeck already did in the past through other more restrictive means). Facebook has also created its own desktop notification client to demonstrate what can be built with the API.
Now any developer can create new applications incorporating the real-time stream. I
TechCrunch
- Monday, April 27, 2009
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Building Modern Web Apps? Better Have A Deep Competency in Web 2.0, Open APIs, Widgets, Social Apps, and Much More
The Web competency bar is climbing fast. This ranges from appreciating why plain old HTTP is so good at underpinning the Web to more sophisticated topics like modern application architecture, the latest in online user experiences, next generation computing models (grid/cloud/utility/SaaS/PaaS), cost-effective scalability , user identity, network effects , Jakob's Law , analytics, operations, user community, as well as the many compelling new distribution models that are nearly mandatory in the first release of most products. This extensive set of competencies is what's
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Review Community Site RateItAll Gets A Revamp, Releases API
The site currently boasts 350,000+ members, and both Quantcast and Compete show a nice growth pattern in traffic (the company self-reports 1.3 The most welcome additions to the service are the read/write API (the company also features RSS feeds and widgets for social networks and blogs) and the ‘global add’ feature that lets users put up any product, business, brand, person and/or place to the RateItAll database for discussion by its user base.
RateItAll , the consumer rating and review network that dubs itself the “distributed Yelp for everything”, is getting a make-over and a bunch of new social features today, including review feeds and product compatibility quizzes.
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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