The Kickstarter project has half a day to go and a ways before it becomes a reality outside of the prototypes created by project creator Benjamin Redford.

The app, nicknamed “Molly,” delivers candy based upon a specified number of retweets. In addition to the wonderful feeling of being retweeted, Molly also gives a physical treat, as the video (embedded above) shows. Molly’s sibling, Olly, is a similar concept with smells and is another part of the project.

Via Tom Coates

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The graphic was created by one of the players, Kinvey, and shared in GigaOm’s coverage.

We have previously covered backend-as-a-service companies and how they help make developers more efficient.

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Facebook Losing Credit With Game Developers

It seems Facebook Credits isn’t helping developers make money like expected:

Facebook made it mandatory for developers to use its payments platform in canvas games in July. That meant developers on the platform had to start handing over a 30 percent revenue share to the company, mirroring a similar split on Apple’s iOS. The hope was that a single, universal currency would make it more frictionless for users to start paying for virtual goods.

“We thought that conversions would go up and be around 15 or 20 percent,” said Kevin Chou, the chief executive of Kabam, a social gaming company that targets a more hardcore demographic, at the Inside Social Apps conference in San Francisco. “But it turned out to be around 5 to 10 percent, meaning that we’re taking a 20 percent net tax.”

Via Jean-Luc David

LinkedIn Acquires Inbox-Augmenting Rapportive

AllThingsD describes the service:

Rapportive, which is still available only for Gmail, overlays an email correspondent’s social networking accounts alongside open messages and drafts. So, for instance, you can see a person’s most recent tweet and mention it in your email to them. Or you can realize that you’re not connected on LinkedIn to a person you just had a meeting with, and rectify that.

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7 New APIs

Today we had 7 new APIs added to our API directory including a search capability service, Google Apps time tracking service, viral referral page service, cloud-based data sharing service, blog traffic analytics service, website tracking service and citation reference index. Below is more details on each of these new APIs.

Grab A Great Deal API: Grab A Great Deal API is a service that uncovers the search capabilities of its website. The API is used to gather data from the Grab A Great Deal website and offers developers the flexibility of presenting the information in different configurations. The website is community of users that share deals online. It also offers users the ability to self-promote their own products and services.

The API is an HTTP-based service and supports requests via the HTTP GET method. There are 2 methods of output: JSON and XML. All requests to the API require authentication via the API Key.

NOTE: In order to use the API, you need to be a member of the site.

gTrax API: gTrax is a time tracking system that can assist in project and resource management. It is integrated with Google Apps allowing users to import calendar information to assist in creating time tracking entries, pull resources from their list of Google contacts and export projects, users and reports into Google spreadsheets. The API allows developers to integrate this functionality into their own applications or web sites. It uses RESTful calls and responses are formatted in JSON.

KickoffLabs API: The KickoffLabs viral referral API allows users to build a viral referral (sharing) solution. The API offers developers the ability to customize landing pages as well. Lastly, a developer can make an existing page more viral.

The API consists of two end points. Using these two end points, developers can create a subscription by email address, set their social share id, control if they get the autoresponder email, and return info about previous subscriptions. This API uses HTTP calls and responses are formatted in JSON.

nimbits API: Nimbits is an open source process data historian for Google App Engine. It provides data logging, calculations and M2M communication for sensors and devices such as Arduino. It can be used to record and share data points on the cloud and lets users record their changing numeric, text based, GPS, json or xml values into them. The API lets users access the public server to push and pull their data from. The API also provides access to a chart image service, which can generate PNG format images of user data. The API uses HTTP calls and responses are formatted in JSON or TXT.

Performancing pMetrics API: Performancing is an online resource for bloggers offering tutorials, analysis, tips, metrics, plugins, themes, jobs, monetization tools and a community base to share ideas and build relationships.

Performancing Metrics (pMetrics) offers bloggers analytics with live and historical tracking of their blog’s traffic and usage. Bloggers get detail on every visitor to their web site. The pMetrics Analytics API lets users extract their web site's traffic data into any of several formats, which can then be analyzed, stored or integrated with their own applications. The API uses HTTP calls and responses are formatted in XML, JSON, CSV and PHP.

StatCounter API: StatCounter is a service that lets users monitor actual human activity on their web sites in real-time. This data can then be used to perform analysis on visitor habits and more. The StatCounter API offers developers access to manage their StatCounter accounts and retrieve their stats reports. With the API developers can set up and edit StatCounter projects and also manipulate their stats data. They can also use the data to build their own widgets and apps on top of. The API uses HTTP calls and responses are formatted in XML and JSON.

Thomson Reuters Web of Science API: Web of Science is a cited reference index, which acts as a tool for discovery and the only method of retrieving accurate citation counts. Users can trace a particular research forward in time or backward in time to see how works grow and develop in a focused area of research using the only true cited reference index.

The Web of Science API lets users access the data within the index. Data includes records such as topic, title and author information. The service offers the ability to access formatted, current information for enhancing an institution’s repository, perform automatic, real time querying of multiple records, deliver real-time Web of Science information into multiple institutional applications such as department web pages or institutional repository. The API uses SOAP protocol and responses are formatted in XML. Full documentation is not publicly available.

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Or, is it already here? Since there’s a mobile app, there’s an API.

Update: a commenter points us to Pinterest API documentation, so we now have a Pinterest API profile.

“There is a Pinterest API that serves our iPhone app, but we are working on making the API more reliable and consistent,” Pinterest’s Yashwanth Nelapati wrote in May. The same post expected an API in “2-3 weeks,” but the transition from internal to public API is often more involved than expected. External developers need and deserve much more help than those within Pinterest.

Business Insider writes the API is coming soon to the delight of not just developers, but venture capitalists:

Why are they excited about Pinterest? Because it has developed into a site where people are aggregating products they like. And it’s driving real traffic to retail sites. However, Pinterest hasn’t been able capitalize on that interest.

When the API is available, Adam Ludwin at RRE, says he’s interested in entrepreneurs who can build on top of the platform, who can “close the loop” and figure out a way to monetize the interest around products on Pinterest. He’s interested in startups that will provide tools to facilitate transactions on and through Pinterest.

For those who can’t wait, there’s a PHP wrapper to the existing Pinterest API. There’s a downside to using these unofficial APIs, as developers discovered when Instagram halted early apps.

Pinterest is clearly “private for now” in the parlance of the API iceberg.

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Once inside the company’s platform allows you to view the interior of a building from multiple angles. This would give potential clientele the chance to easily find an establishment and experience what it has to offer from their home computer or web enabled smart phone.

The EveryScape API, which is currently in private beta, allows developers to access and integrate the video-tour capabilities that they provide into other applications and websites. Now, instead of explaining how to get to a restaurant, the website could just show the way. How simple is that?

EveryScape is one of 206 Mapping APIs in our directory.

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Flickr Plugs Its Leaky Boat

With users exporting Flickr photos to SnapJoy, Flickr apparently shut off access to its API:

Snapjoy’s co-founder Michael Dwan tells us that no warning was given to Snapjoy about its access to Flickr’s API being shut down, nor did his company do anything that other sites do with the freely available access to many other developers.

Since the Flickraft site launched, over 250k photos have been imported to Snapjoy via Flickr, showing that there are many people who were pretty happy about the offering of a “life raft” to get their photos off of the Yahoo! owned photo site.

It seems fair to point out that SnapJoy’s own API is not yet public.

Will the Real Google Plus API Please Stand Up?

Since Google’s social network was released there have been unofficial Google Plus APIs. And when the official Google Plus API was released, it was read-only and not as complete as developers wanted.

CMSWire describes the problem and wonders if the real Google Plus API is on its way:

There has been frequent criticism and questions about Google Plus’ lackluster developer access. Google has offered a limited read-only development interface and a 1+ badge since September, but no official mechanisms to build the third-party tools that are common for other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.

Via Jeremy Goldman

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15 New APIs

Today we had 15 new APIs added to our API directory including a used motorcycle listings, affiliate marketing network, protein to nucleic acid back-translation service, protein to nucleic acid back-translation service, dna visualization tool, nucleic acid to peptide translation service, coastal conditions information service, coastal mapping information retrieval tool, url shortening and expanding service, philippines deal service, phylogenetic footprinting service, file sharing and ftp service, random alistair young quote generator, video sharing application, advertising management platform, . Below is more details on each of these new APIs.

aRodar API: aRodar is a web site where users can search for or post used motorcycles for sale. There is also a forum for members of the community to interact. The API allows users to publish their ads on the site, on their applications or via the affiliate network. With the API users can look up classified ads, vehicle information and ad status. The API uses SOAP calls with XML responses. The site and documentation are in Spanish.

Digital River oneNetworkDirect API: Digital River's oneNetworkDirect is the affiliate marketing network specializing in software products. It features the largest selection of digital products offered online today, including some of the world's most recognized titles such as McAfee, Big Fish Games, SanDisk, Logitech and many more.

The API gives users access to some of the functionality of their oneNetworkDirect accounts. This includes access to reporting information as well as content visible to a user's network account. Methods include creativeTypes, campaignInfo, creativeInfo, optionalInfo, monthlyStatsInfo, dailyStatsInfo, getCCampaigns and more. The API uses SOAP and responses are in XML.

Public documentation is not available. Unofficial documentation can be viewed at: http://www.cumbrowski.com/CarstenC/affiliatemarketing_webservices_onenetwork.asp

EMBOSS Backtranambig API: The EMBOSS Backtranambig API reads a protein sequence input by the user and then writes the nucleic acid sequence it could have come from. To do so, it uses nucleotide ambiguity codes that represent all possible codons for each amino acid. The API is available in both RESTful and SOAP forms and responses are formatted in XML.

EMBOSS Backtranseq API: The EMBOSS Backtranseq API reads a protein sequence input by the user and then outputs the nucleic acid sequence that is most likely to have produced it. To determine the nucleic acid sequence, the API implements a codon usage table which gives the frequency of use of each codon for each amino acid. It then selects the most frequently occurring codon for each amino acid to be used in the output sequence. The API is available in both RESTful and SOAP forms and responses are formatted in XML.

EMBOSS Sixpack API: The EMBOSS Sixpack API reads a DNA sequence that's been input by the user and then outputs the three forward and (optionally) three reverse frame translations in a visual manner. The API is available in both RESTful and SOAP forms and responses are formatted in XML.

EMBOSS Transeq API: The EMBOSS Transeq API translates nucleic acid sequences into their corresponding peptide sequences. It can translate the three forward and three reverse reading frames found in DNA, and output multiple frame translations at once. The API is available in both RESTful and SOAP forms and responses are formatted in XML.

IOOS SOS API: This API is the CO-OPS Implementation of IOOS (Integrated Ocean Observation System) SOS (Sensor Observation Service). IOOS is an online tool that allows users to access information on oceanic, coastal, and Great Lakes environments collected from sources that can include NOAA and other federal agencies, the IOOS Regional Associations, and potentially other national or international organizations.

With the IOOS SOS API, users can retrieve data on currents, water levels (preliminary, verified, and predicted), meteorology, water conditions, wave harmonics, sensors, and stations via HTTP GET/POST.

nowCOAST LayerInfo API: nowCOAST is a GIS-based online mapping tool that provides access to real-time coastal environmental observations and NOAA forecasts for any region in the coastal United States. nowCOAST's LayerInfo API provides access to additional useful information on mapping layers, including Legends, Timestamps, Icons, and Layer Descriptions. The API uses HTTP calls and responses are formatted in XML, HTML and TXT.

Ow.ly API: Ow.ly is a link shortening and expanding application that allows users to either shrink or expand URLs for web pages, uploaded photos, and uploaded documents.

The Ow.ly API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of Ow.ly with other applications and to create new applications. Some example API methods include shortening URLs, expanding URLs, retrieving information about URLs, and accessing statistics of clicks.

Paynoy API: Paynoy is a travel, services, and products deal website for the Philippines. Paynoy users can search for deals on travel, products, and services and receive deal information via email.

The Paynoy API allows developers to access and integrate the deal data and functionality from Paynoy with other applications. The API method allows for returning deal information.

Phylogenetic Footprinting API: "Phylogenetic Footprinting" is an approach for identifying regulatory regions of genes by comparing orthologous non-coding sequences. The Phylogenetic Footprinting API created and managed by Universitätsmedizin Göttingen uses a collection of SOAP-based tools to accomplish the identification process.

ShareFile API: ShareFile is a file sharing application. ShareFile's file sharing and transferring is secure, offers mobile access, file and folder syncing, and has an Outlook plugin.

The ShareFile API allows developers to access and integrate the data and functionality of ShareFile with other applications. Some example API methods include creating and managing files and folders, managing account information, and adding, deleting, and managing users.

SigQuotes API: The SigQuotes API returns .sig quotes posted by Alistair J.R. Young, a British systems software developer. With the API users can retrieve a DataSet containing all of the .sig quotes available, return a list of all the .sig quotes available or retrieve a randomly selected .sig quote from the list. The API uses SOAP protocol and responses are formatted in XML.

Socialcam API: Socialcam is a video sharing application. Socialcam users can share videos with the Socialcam mobile applications. Users can tag videos, like videos, export videos, and share their videos with other Socialcam users.

The Socialcam API allows developers to access the functionality of Socialcam to create new applications. Public documentation is not available; interested developers should email api@socialcam.com for API access.

Trafficspaces API: Trafficspaces is an advertising platform for publishers to sell advertising space and manage their advertising content. The platform allows advertisers to create their own ads within the Trafficspaces platform.

The Trafficspaces API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of Trafficspaces with other applications. Some example API methods include managing users, accessing account information, and managing ad content and placements.

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In terms of the technical details, REST and JSON lead the way. There are 60 analytics REST APIs and 4 analytics SOAP APIs. Our directory lists 54 analytics XML APIs and 39 analytics JSON APIs.

The most common tags within analytics are 21 internet analytics APIs, 17 social analytics APIs and 13 analytics tools APIs

On the mashup side, we list 37 analytics mashups. We named My Top Tweet as mashup of the day earlier this week.

For reference, here is a list of all 82 analytics APIs.

  3Scale Analytics API: API management services

  AddThis Analytics API: Content sharing analytics data service

  Adigami Web Analytics API: Web advertising analytics

  appFigures API: Sales Reporting and Analytics for iTunes Apps

  Apsalar ApScience API: Mobile analytics platform

  awe.sm API: Social sharing platform and performance analytics

  Bango Analytics API: Mobile website analytics service

  Best Buy BBYOpen BBYFeed API: eCommerce shopping services

  BlueKai API: Data management platform and services

  chartbeat API: Website analytics service

  Chatterbox API: Sentiment analysis and analytics service

  Church Analytics API: Web traffic analytics service

  Clarabridge API: Sentiment and text analytics software

  Clickmap API: Usability analytics service

  Context Voice API: Social conversation aggregator

  Cownt Us API: Web site analytics

  DeskMetrics API: Software use analytics service

  eBay Best Match API: eBay search ranking analysis service

  Eloqua API: Automated marketing service

  Examineurl Online Analysis API: Website analytics and Intenet tools service

  Extractiv API: Semantic text extraction service

  Framesocket API: Video management and publishing platform

  Freespree API: Call tracking and pay-per-call service

  GoodData API: Business information service

  Google Analytics API: Web analytics service

  Google Website Optimizer API: Create and modify website optimizer experiments

  iCustomer Pulse API: Customer satisfaction survey

  Janrain Capture API: User data collection and storage service

  Kantar Video Analytics API: Video analytics service

  KISSmetrics API: Conversion funnel analytics service

  Kontagent API: Social analytics service

  Kontangent API: Social analytics platform

  KPI Dashboard API: Business information service

  Lanoba API: Website registration and authentication service

  Leftronic API: Data and analytics visualization service

  Lift Suggest API: Shopping recommendation service

  Lionyzer API: Website analysis and classification tool

  Loggr API: Web application analytics service

  LongJump API: Platform as a Service (PaaS)

  Lookery API: User-targeting service

  Medialets Medialytics API: Mobile application analytics service

  MetaLayer API: Data visualization service

  Mixpanel API: Website analytics service

  mobiAPI API: Mobile data reporting and analysis service

  Monitis Open API: Monitoring extension service

  Mopapp API: Mobile app sales tracking service

  Murrion Software Track Email Opens API: Email marketing campaign tracking service

  Musicmetric API: Music industry data tracking service

  New Relic API: Web application monitoring service

  Pardot Marketing Automation API: Website analytics and marketing

  Parse.ly API: Content publisher analytics service

  PeekYou Social Analytics API: Social network mapping and information service

  Pinch API: Mobile analytics service

  PostRank Data Mining API: Feed and story retrieval and analysis

  PostRank Real-Time Content API: Online social content analysis

  PostRank Real-Time Engagement API: Social engagement aggregator service

  Psydex AG API: Data Mining and Predictive Analysis Service

  Publishflow API: Live Competitor Monitoring for News Publishers

  PulseFlow API: Web and mobile app analytics service

  Radian6 SocialCloud API: social media monitoring tool

  Rankur API: Social Media Monitoring service

  Raven Tools API: Search engine optimization services

  Recorded Future News Analytics API: Query News Analytics Database

  ReportGrid API: Reporting and Analytics Service

  SendGrid API: Email Delivery. Simplified.

  SEO metrics API: SEO metrics gathering service

  SEOmoz API: Search engine optimization services

  Shared Count API: Social Network Tracking Service

  Site Stats API: Website traffic tracking service

  Social Report API: Social analytics platform

  Sometrics API: Social network analytics and monetization tools

  StatsMix API: Track business metrics on dashboards

  Sunnytrail API: Small business analytics service

  Syllabs API: Symantic text analysis service

  Timetric API: Statistical analysis tools and data

  Trafic.ro API: Website analytics service

  Viralheat API: Social media analytics service

  VoodooVox Caller Analytics API: Phone call demographic data service

  WebSEOAnalytics API: SEO analytics service

  WebTrends API: Web site analytics service

  Wondergraphs API: Data and analytics service

  Woopra API: Live Website Data Analysis Service

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The main difficulty with APIs in general is that they require the developer to create and remember a number of cryptic URLs via which certain data can be retrieved from the API. Another issue is, that often fairly simple data requests need to be expressed in multiple API calls, which then have to be merged by the developer itself in order to further use this data in his application.

So what can be done to overcome this misery? Yahoo’s YQL tries to address this by converting API calls into SQL-like commands, which are somewhat more human readable. Let’s look at a couple of examples of how YQL can be used to interact with the ProgrammableWeb API.

Example 1: API Mashups

To show the mashups that are using a certain API, you need to send this call to the ProgrammableWeb API:

In YQL, you get the same data with this call:

SELECT * FROM pw.mashups
WHERE apis=“google-maps” AND apikey=“YOUR_API_KEY”


While this is not shorter than the bare API call, it tells you a bit more about what you are requesting and from where. Lets have a look at another example.

Example 2: ProgrammableWeb Members from San Francisco

To find ProgrammableWeb members from San Francisco, you need this API call:

Expressed in YQL this is:

SELECT * FROM pw.members
WHERE query=“San Francisco” AND apikey=“YOUR_API_KEY”


This YQL query is very similar to the one in example 1, with just one minor twist. When defining the YQL table for an API, YQL allows for renaming of parameters in order to improve the readability of the API calls. In this case I have renamed the q parameter to query, to show this.

Example 3: ProgrammableWeb Member Data

YQL shines even more in areas where it can provide an abstraction layer to simplify queries in the original API. For example, in order to retrieve the member data of 3 different ProgrammableWeb members (usernames: jmusser, duvander, spier) you have to issue 3 API calls:

With YQL you can do all in one call:

SELECT * FROM pw.members
WHERE (username="jmusser" OR username="duvander" OR username="spier")
AND apikey="YOUR_API_KEY"


Try it Yourself

Hopefully but now I got you a bit excited about YQL and the ProgrammableWeb API, and you want to try it out.

I have created an initial set of YQL tables for the ProgrammableWeb API, which can be found in this github repository. These YQL tables are not complete yet, meaning they do not cover all API calls but it is a good start. In order to try out the YQL calls in this article, you need to do this:

• Sign-up for a ProgrammableWeb user account (if you don’t already have one)
• Request a developer key (make sure to state your ProgrammableWeb username)
• Load the ProgrammableWeb YQL tables into the YQL console
• Copy and paste one of the YQL examples from this article into the console and try them (of course using your API key)

Have fun while trying this out, and post comments about your experience with YQL and the ProgrammableWeb API below. Looking forward to hear from you.

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Path API Likes Your Contacts

The exclusive social network with a friend count cap Path uploads your entire address book to find out your true friends:

It all started innocently enough. I was thinking of implementing a Path Mac OS X app as part of our regularly scheduled hackathon. … It all seemed harmless enough until I observed a POST request to https://api.path.com/3/contacts/add/. Upon inspecting closer, I noticed that my entire address book (including full names, emails and phone numbers) was being sent as a plist to Path.

Predictably, this news has whipped the web into a frenzy.

Via Aaron Hockley

1 in 4 Wolfram Alpha API Calls is From Siri

The New York Times sheds some light on the Wolfram Alpha API and its number one user:

Siri accounts for about a quarter of the queries fielded by Wolfram Alpha, whose staff has grown to 200. Several large companies in health care, financial services and oil and gas recently hired Dr. Wolfram’s private company, Wolfram Research, to do tailored corporate versions of Wolfram Alpha for them. Microsoft also licenses Wolfram Alpha technology.

Via Alex Howard

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18 New APIs

Today we had 18 new APIs added to our API directory including a payment network service, coastal oceanographic information service, security monitoring provider, email marketing service, content management and marketing platform, messaging and mobile marketing platform, barcode database, san francisco real-time parking information and social network platform for workplaces. Below is more details on each of these new APIs.

BioDOM API: BioDOM is a JAVA library for converting native non-XML output from various bioinformatic tools to XML formats that can be validated against XMLSchemas. BioDOM is available as a download, a web console, or a SOAP API.

The API consists of four services (AlignmentML, SequenceML, RNAStructML and RNAStructAlignmentML) for converting native formats in xml and back.

CardSpring API: CardSpring is a payment network platform. CardSpring offers an API that allows developers to create applications tied to payment cards. Applications such as loyalty programs, digital coupons, and adding account information to a payment card can be built. The CardSpring API allows for integration with other applications and services, such as merchant and point-of-sale applications.

Public documentation is not available; documentation can be accessed with login.

CO-OPS API: As part of NOAA, CO-OPS (Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services) monitors, assesses, and distributes information relating to tides, currents, water levels, and other coastal oceanographic indicators. CO-OPS provides several SOAP APIs that return information on water levels, tides, currents, harmonics, station metadata, and meteorology for locations along the U.S. coast.

Decomp API: Given the mass of a DNA fragment, Decomp can calculate which nucleotide combinations are possible. Problems like this (referred to as mass decomposition problems) often arise in mass spectrometry, where the only information left about DNA, protein, or other sample fragments are their molecular masses.

Decomp is available as a web console or a SOAP API. It can be used to solve mass decomposition problems.

Digital Monitoring Products API: Digital Monitoring Products (DMP) is a provider of security and fire alarm products. They specialize in network solutions for centralized security monitoring in applications of all sizes. DMP offers an API for use by security system dealers and Central Stations. With the API, developers can build systems that allow users to interact with the service through their mobile devices or web applications. Developers can also use the API to custom brand their own applications. Full documentation is not publicly available. The API is available at no charge to dealers who subscribe to the SecureCom cellular service.

Emailvision Campaign Commander API: Emailvision is a provider of SaaS campaign management solutions for email, mobile and social marketing. These services are used to automate work so that users can run and manage their marketing campaigns more effectively.

Campaign Commander is software that lets users perform all aspects of email marketing. Users can view reports and analytics, plan their campaigns, manage portfolios on up to more advanced tasks involving segmentation strategies, triggered marketing, integrated email and social campaigns and much more. Campaign Commander also supports the management and execution of campaigns in 16 different languages.

The API suite allows marketers to re-use existing customer data stored in CRM, ERP, SFA, or other in-house applications within Campaign Commander to send targeted email marketing campaigns to clients. The suite includes a campaign management API, notification messaging API and real-time data synchronization API. Full documentation is not publicly available.

Marqui API: Marqui provides on demand marketing software focused on web content management and email marketing. The software gives users a content management system, a blogging platform, a form builder, subscriber management, email marketing platform and more. The Marqui API lets developers integrate their web sites and applications with the platform. API documentation is not publicly available.

Msgme API: Msgme is a digital messaging and mobile marketing CRM platform. It allows businesses to create interactive dialogues with their customers through the use of SMS, MMS, QR Codes, voice and social channels. The API is a suite of services that give developers access to the full functionality of the platform. Developers can manipulate data across subscription lists, create or delete campaigns, manage subscribers, pull content from feeds, look up account keywords, retrieve voicemails and interact with the messaging system. The API uses HTTP calls and responses are formatted in XML.

National Virtual Observatory API: The National Virtual Observatory (NVO) provides researchers with access to astronomical data from ground- and space-based telescopes worldwide. From NVO's website visitors can discover, retrieve, and analyze astronomical data from an international assortment of archives and data centers.

NVO offers multiple SOAP-based APIs that allow users to access resource metadata in the NVO directory. Several of these APIs are designed for use with the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), which promotes open access to academic data repositories.

NSDL Repository Update Service API: The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) is the national online portal for education and research on learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the United States. The NSDL provides a XML repository search server tool called the Digital Discovery System (DDS), complete with an API built on top of Apache Lucene.

When a user uses the DDS tool in conjunction with a XML repository, they can use RESTful calls to remotely create, update, and delete collections and items in their repository using the DDS's Repository Update Service web service. Client access to a DDS repository system and, likewise, the API is governed by a list of valid IP's that can be specified in the DDS's Collection Manager interface.

Open EAN/GTIN Database API: The Open EAN/GTIN barcode number database lets users query barcode numbers online and receive information about related products. The database contains EAN/GTIN/UPC/JAN codes and provides detailed information about the products that are tagged with such a barcode number. The API lets users query the database from their own web sites and applications. It uses HTTP calls and responses are formatted in TXT.

Passta API: Passta (Protein annotation by secondary-structure based alignment) helps determine whether a protein sequence is related to a protein with known structure. For a given protein sequence, the program returns a Passta alignment with associated secondary structure element information.

Passta is available as a web console or as a SOAP API.

Roci API: Roci (Reconstruction Of Conserved Intervals) is a tool for reconstructing the ancestral gene orders of phylogenetic trees. Given the branching pattern of a phylogenetic tree and the gene orders of the leaf nodes, it calculates sets of gene orders for the inner nodes. Roci can be used as a web console or as a SOAP API.

Rose API: Rose (Random model of sequence evolution) implements a probabilistic model of the evolution of RNA-, DNA-, or protein-like sequences to help determine their evolutionary order. Data created by Rose is useful for evaluating the methods of multiple sequence alignment computations and for predicting phylogenetic relationships.

Rose is available as a download, a web console, and a SOAP API.

SFpark API: The service provides continuously updated information about locations and pricing of available parking in selected areas of San Francisco. DataSF, the city government's open data initiative, collects and distributes the information to help drivers choose when to drive and when to choose other transportation options. Data is provided by off-street parking providers and by sensors that report status of individual street parking spaces as occupied or vacant.

API methods support submission of search parameters, including location (latitude/longitude and preferred radius), type of parking desired (street or off-street), and whether or not to include rate information. Returned data include the locations of currently available parking, the type, and the applicable rate, if requested.

Tgels API: The service searches across multiple flight booking sites and aggregates (gels) published information about special travel deals. It generates listings of flight options and last-minute airfare deals, with related information on package deals, hotel prices, etc.

API methods support listings of flight options, as well as creating and deleting flight deal packages. Requests specify originating and destination airports, date range, and other parameters. Returned data include matching combinations from multiple airlines.

Tibbr API: Tibbr is a social networking platform designed specifically for the workplace. Tibbr offers a variety of features for workplace content sharing, communication, and project management. Tibbr's features include microblogging, instant messaging, screen sharing, and customizable applications.

The Tibbr API allows developers to access and integrate the data and functionality of Tibbr with other applications. Some example API methods include managing users, retrieving messages, posting messages, and searching subjects.

West Midlands Regional Observatory API: The site acts as a central point where users can access information, data and intelligence about the West Midlands region in the UK. It's stated goal is to offer public agencies, private firms and voluntary and community organizations in the West Midlands improved access to well-​organized information with the aim of improving the quality of strategy formulation, policy making and service provision. The API lets users access the functionality of the site search service. It lets users perform search, configure the service, manage user profiles, logs and the sending of emails. It uses HTTP and SOAP calls and responses are formatted in XML.

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The Amazon announcement post shared the new pricing:

“We continue to innovate on your behalf to drive down storage costs and pass along the resultant savings to you at every possible opportunity,” Amazon’s Jeff Barr wrote.

GigaOm says it’s about getting even more traction:

Many feel the company’s real end-game here is to get more businesses to put more of their data into its ecosystem. Once it’s there it’s a no-brainer for companies to make use of these other Amazon services. The net, net, net here is that Amazon wants everyone to use more of its core services — AWS is the leading high-volume, low-margin provider of these infrastructure services and the company wants it to stay that way.

It may be less about innovation and traction and more just sheer volume. Twilio announced volume pricing for its Twilio SMS API. This, after lowering its regular price twice in two years. Because of the volume usage across its infrastructure, Twilio (a ProgrammableWeb sponsor) was able to take its original three cent price down to two cents and then one cent per SMS message.

Twilio has had the same experience with its Twilio Voice API, which has had public volume pricing for some time. There have also been other price drops for Amazon’s other services in the past. What these price reductions display is that infrastructure-as-a-service companies are scalable businesses and an API doesn’t only have to support a product. The API can be the product.

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