Revelations that the now-defunct Cambridge Analytica collected data from as many as 87 million Facebook users’ focused congressional and public scrutiny on two main issues: privacy and competition. Most Americans seems to agree that we need progress on both fronts. | Continue reading
Amazon has made in-skill purchasing (ISP) generally available for Alexa skills. With ISP, skill developers gain another avenue to generate revenue through otherwise free skills. Skill users gain access to premium content and enhanced features to enrich an Amazon Alexa skill exper … | Continue reading
Late 2017, the Apple developer community was set ablaze by a rumored Project Marzipan that would converge macOS and iOS. While the developer community did what it could to uncover the plans, it appears any plans addressing cross-platform development have more to do with declarati … | Continue reading
Six APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Travel, Auto, Internet of Things, and Movies. Highlights include the Feedity service which allows for API creation from an RSS feed and Travelgate X GraphQL APIs. Here's a rundown of the latest addi … | Continue reading
Google yesterday unveiled Google Maps Platform, which it is calling "the next generation" of its Google Maps business. Google Maps Platform includes streamlined APIs. In its announcement, the search giant stated, "Our core APIs work together to provide the building blocks you ne … | Continue reading
At its annual F8 developer conference, Facebook yesterday announced the launch of Graph API 3.0 as well as enhanced developer app review. The third version of the company's Graph API contain a number of changes to Facebook Login and the /comments edge and what data is returned. | Continue reading
Google My Business API version 4.1 includes five new features including merchant provided description, offer type posts, and customer provided media. Google also announced that agencies can now sign up for a Google My Business account which features a brand new agency dashboard. | Continue reading
This week, Google announced a new top-level domain for mobile apps needing a home on the web: .app. Google sees many benefits for apps owning some space on the web, and its main selling point for the .app TLD is the built-in security requirements to communicate with an .app websi … | Continue reading
The latest Parasoft SOAtest release introduces artificial intelligence to convert manual UI tests into automated, script-less API tests. The tools works as a simple browser extension to streamline the development workflow. Smart Generator monitors underlying API calls during manu … | Continue reading
Melissa made a name for itself building contact data quality and identity verification services. The company has taken its next with the introduction of a single portal for various API access to its services. Melissa Developer provides access to business identification and locati … | Continue reading
Fourteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Sports, Machine Learning, and News Services. Highlights include the Feedster API for integrating applications with RSS feeds and the Ricoh THETA API for programmatic access to 360 degree camera … | Continue reading
Over 57 million Americans get their health insurance through Medicare. However, one barrier to significantly improved care has been the free flow of Medicare claims data between dissimilar systems. According to the US Digital Service however, version 2.0 of the Blue Button API sh … | Continue reading
Fitness trackers collect reams of data, but that data not always used effectively. Fitbit's wearables are about to get a lot smarter. The company said it is collaborating with Google to push health data generated by its fitness trackers to the cloud where medical professionals ca … | Continue reading
Serverless architecture may be an excellent approach, but is it the wisest for your company? Learn what the specific metrics you need to use to evaluate the actual development time requirements and real-time costs of paying-by-trigger for API requests, storage, and networking. | Continue reading
Nine APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in under Security, Electronic Signature, Data Mining, Weather and other categories. Highlights include the Microsoft Intelligent Security Graph API and an API for API-first CMS Comfortable.io. Here's a rundown of the late … | Continue reading
Many businesses are building remote development teams to accommodate developers who work outside company headquarters. This distributed approach to work is catching on as companies seek the best talent possible. This article looks at the many collaboration tools for bringing deve … | Continue reading
The creators of XML Travelgate have rebranded the company with the launch of its new, GraphQL-based travel platform: TravelgateX. TravelgateX includes over 100 travel APIs and aims to be the single, global marketplace for both suppliers and buyers in the travel and tourism space. | Continue reading
Nations Trust Bank, one of the largest banks in Sri Lanka, recently announced an open banking initiative through its Open API Banking Platform. The bank hopes that the platform will help change the closed minded approach to banking that has historically dominated the island natio … | Continue reading
JavaScript has evolved into a massive ecosystem that covers nearly every aspect of web development, including both front end and back end. With dozens of JavaScript frameworks available, how do you choose the right one? This article looks at which frameworks currently dominate fr … | Continue reading
Analytics API provider and customer data platform Segment has announced a new API to help businesses comply with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules that go into effect next month in Europe. Under the GDPR, Europeans will have more control over and access to t … | Continue reading
Pluralsight has launched the Pluralsight Technology Index which lists more than 300 software development technologies including languages, frameworks, libraries, data stores, and tools. The index draws from 8 billion data points to calculate trending growth rates and popularity w … | Continue reading
Twilio today announced that it has added support to its API for LINE, a popular free communication app that allows its more than 168 million users to make calls and send messages. LINE support is part of Twilio Channels, a feature of Twilio's API designed to build messaging expe … | Continue reading
As a global leader in cybersecurity, the irony of RSA's history of cyber incidents at conferences is lost on no one. Last week, at its annual RSAC, the company endured another security breach. Conference app user names were improperly accessed, calling all the cybersecurity indus … | Continue reading
Ericsson has released a study that provides insights from a number of leading telecom service providers on how they are engaging and positioning themselves in the IoT market. Most of the service providers interviewed are relying on standards and open APIs to enable third-party de … | Continue reading
In the wake of a scandal that has led to the biggest backlash it has ever faced, Facebook has announced API and platform product changes that will have far-reaching consequences for developers. The changes include the need for developers to submit their apps to Facebook for revi … | Continue reading
Since their introduction in 2015, Progressive Web Apps have been viewed as a potential way to break the grip that native apps have had on the mobile app ecosystem. The most effective way to reach users still is to publish your app to one of the major app stores, but which one pla … | Continue reading
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Financial, Billing, and Feedback. Some highlights include the Gfycat API for programmatic access to the animated GIF platform, and the Rev.io API for usage-based billing functions. Here's a look … | Continue reading
Building an API can happen in a matter of minutes. But there is a big difference between whipping up an API, and crafting one that is secure, reliable and meets the user’s expectations. In this article we looks at six common mistakes that arise from APIs that weren’t made with en … | Continue reading
To all of you — including the US Congress — that want Mark Zuckerberg's head over the personal data that was gleaned from Facebook and used for profit by Cambridge Analytica, you have got the wrong guy. If you’re quitting Facebook, you might be doing it for the wrong reasons. | Continue reading
Apple this week released Safari Technology Preview 54 for macOS Sierra and macOS High Sierra and it contains updates for Web APIs and WebRTC. Safari Technology Preview 54 contains a fix for the Clipboard API, Beacon API, and Web API, as well as two new improvements for WebRTC. | Continue reading
Google's Dialogflow Enterprise Edition is now generally available. Since the API-based development suite was acquired, and then renamed, from API.AI, it has remained in beta. Now, generally available, developers can use the tools to build conversational interfaces across many pla … | Continue reading
Microsoft announced a public preview of a Security API at the RSA conference in San Francisco this week. The API allows Microsoft's customers and partners to extend the company's Intelligent Security Graph, a platform designed to "protect and strengthen Microsoft products and se … | Continue reading
Google is billing Android Things Developer Preview 8 as a release candidate. The final preview, available now, includes the final set of APIs for Google's IoT platform ahead of its stable v1.0 release. The preview also debuts new behaviors in the Android Things Developer Console. … | Continue reading
Seven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including QR Codes, eCommerce, Sports, and Backend. Highlights include an API that predicts football (soccer) match results and an API for Flow project management. Here's a rundown of the latest additions. | Continue reading
The notion that intelligence is about maximizing future freedom of action is a useful framework for businesses navigating digital transformation and modernization. Often, the difference between a future of options and a future of dead ends involves how a company designs and manag … | Continue reading
The YouTube Data API can be used to upload and search for videos, manage playlists and subscriptions, update channel settings and more. In part 3 of this tutorial, we continue to extend our code and show you how to use the API to build a simple app that can return the contents of … | Continue reading
Rev.io, a provider of a usage-based billing platform for telecom and IoT companies, announced today a new REST API that gives the company's customers and partners the ability to programatically access usage-rating, metered billing, customer data, and inventory catalog informatio … | Continue reading
The YouTube Data API can be used to upload and search for videos, manage playlists and subscriptions, update channel settings and more. In part 2 of this tutorial, we'll extend our code from part one and show you how to use the API to build a simple app that can return the conten … | Continue reading
Twilio has moved Programmable Wireless out of beta and has made the product generally available (GA). The GA release of Twilio Programmable Wireless introduces updated data pricing, a Quote-based data pricing model, and improvements to the usage section of the Programmable Wirele … | Continue reading
With more than 6,000 active applications making more than 1 billion API calls each month, Intuit has revealed that it is working on a new QuickBooks Online API. The new API, along with the new QuickBooks Online v4, will contain improvements based largely on feedback provided by I … | Continue reading
Sixteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including IoT, Payments, and Religion. Highlights include an API for adding parental controls to applications to limit screen time, and an Apple Pay web payment request API. Here's a rundown of the latest … | Continue reading
Tap Systems, the manufacturer of a wearable keyboard, mouse and game controller dubbed the Tap Strap, has unveiled SDKs that allows developers to create new kinds of applications. The Tap device uses sensors to detect the gestures users make and identify what they represent. | Continue reading
solo.io, a startup that aims to "glue" together microservices, monoliths, and serverless functions, has announced that its function gateway, aptly dubbed Gloo, now supports JSON-to-gRPC translation. This allows users to map their gateway APIs to any back-end whether it uses REST … | Continue reading
Foursquare has launched Places API for Start-Ups which provides access to Foursquare location intelligence capabilities at a price point between the free tier account and the Enterprise tier account. The Places API allows companies to integrate apps with Foursquare platform data … | Continue reading
Every day the ProgrammableWeb team is busy updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples. If you have new APIs, Clients, or Source Code examples to add to ProgrammableWeb's d … | Continue reading