Tweet Image via CrunchBase I am walking through the Box.net OpenBox Developer area tonight. Box.net offers a pretty robust set of API for managing files and content on the box.net platform. It is a great example of a very robust API. They get you started with: Introduction to OpenBox Actions Getting Started Guide for API [...]
Tweet The ability to explain your API to developers and potential consumers is critical to the success of your API Ecosystem. Whether its core API docs, samples, training materials or marketing materials your documentation needs to tell the story of your API and the business problems it solves. I was just reviewing services offered by [...]
Tweet I spend time each week to define the technology platform I use to accomplish business. One of the goals of this platform definition is to assist in my migration to the cloud. I realized another tool I use daily, but have overlooked. I use Google Alerts to discover new information on blogs, search, and [...]
Tweet I learned about TOR, a free software helps you defend against network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security while reading the Rolling Stone Article about Jacob Appelbaum and his TOR evangelism. TOR is an interesting approach to privacy in this digital age for anyone looking [...]
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Tweet I was happy to see the announcement by Google, that they were open sourcing more of the Google Wave platform. I was at the keynote speech where they released Google Wave, and I really believed in the potential of it as a platform. The code they released adds more features and delivers a more [...]
Tweet I’m reviewing four major Application Programming Interfaces (API) today. Zendesk, Scribd, Twilio, and Evernote. These are all top web 2.0 or cloud applications. Whichever label you wish to apply. I am evaluating the different approaches to delivering their API Ecosystem: Zendesk – Offers web-based customer support software and their API is pretty much a [...]
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Tweet I have been reviewing a lot of APIs lately. I”m evaluating their potential for integration into applications. As I’m going through I”m also evaluating how they deliver their API community. I was checking out the Scribd API tonight, and I like their delivery. Its pretty straightforward. It has the following API building blocks: API [...]
Tweet I finally got my Google Storage for Developers email invite the other day. They promised attendees of Google I/O would get them quicker, it took 3 months. I clicked on the link in my email and requested my keys and logged into the Google Storage Manager. It has a pretty basic interface for managing [...]
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Tweet I’m spending time going through RedHat’s Deltacloud set of cloud APIs. They recently recently moved the project to the Apache Incubator and submitted it to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) . With the Deltacloud API you can start an instance on an internal cloud, then with the same code start another on Amazon [...]
Tweet In addition to adopting Gist, I have quickly adopted a new tool that shows you rich contact profiles right inside Gmail. It is called Rapportive. I have heard about them, and Audrey uses them, but until I watched them present at YC DemoDay it didn’t really stick. As soon as I got home I [...]
Tweet I have successfully integrated social CRM service Gist into my platform. I have bee using it on a daily basis for about a month now. Gist allows me to integrate my: Personal Gmail account and Google Apps Gmail Personal Google Contacts and Google Apps Contacts Google Calendar Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Gist then gives me [...]
Tweet CloudCommons has developed the Service Measurement Index (SMI) Framework, a set of tools for comparing cloud computing service providers. The Service Measurement Index (SMI) Framework uses the following metrics: Quality – There are often many different solutions to any IT challenge, and each solution has different quality-of service-attributes, such as defect rates, time to [...]
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Tweet I am needing more programmatic control over my Amazon EC2 environment. I am rebuilding all server instances on my Amazon Web Services network. I needed to reconfigure using EBS Volumes for file and data storage, and upgrade the operating systems and some applications while I’m at it. So I’m creating all new AMI as [...]
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Tweet I had a chance to play with the AlchemyAPI I came across today. AlchemyAPI is a semantic tagging and text mining Application Programming Interface (API). I have about 10K web pages I want to extract top keywords and key phrases from. I want meaning extracted from the words on each page. AlchemyAPI provides nine [...]
Tweet I have a “hobby” harvesting project going on right now. I’m am harvesting several thousand web pages from various locations on a certain topic. I’m not really interested in the content itself, but the top keywords that are used in the content. I pulled the page and extracted the body content that I am [...]
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Tweet I can parse any document or web page and tell you what words exist in the content. I can tell you which words are most used or potentially meaningful in the content. What I would like to have is more meaningful sets of key phrases and tag sets that are specific to certain topics [...]
Tweet I’m seeing a lot of chatter on the Internets lately about API development and best practices. Like 10 Common Mistakes Made by API Providers at RWW and APIs: an Important Part of Product Strategy at ProgrammableWeb. I had the pleasure of sitting with the engineer from Mashery a couple weeks ago and listen to [...]
Tweet A positive feedback loop can occur whenever an API becomes popular, it keeps becoming more and more popular due to network effects. The most important network effects are: API gets support by partners API gets support by vendors Developers are more likely to already know how to use it. This feedback loop and network [...]