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Why Enterprise APIs Are Key to Fully Leveraging Artificial Intelligence
MuleSoft founder Ross Mason has a bit of a reality check for anyone willing to listen. It has to do with how the majority of today's artificial intelligence can only do about half of what it should be doing. According to Mason, it needs to be more of a two-way street and for that, you need APIs.
06-26-2018
US Digital Service Launches v2 of Blue Button API to Ease Flow of Medicare Data
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 should fix that.
05-01-2018
How to Discover Playlist IDs with the YouTube Data API
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 contents of a playlist.
04-17-2018
How To Get YouTube Playlist Contents from the YouTube Data API
The YouTube Data API can be used to upload and search for videos, manage playlists and subscriptions, update channel settings and more. In this tutorial, we'll review the YouTube Data API portal and show you how to use the API to build a simple app that can return the contents of a playlist.
01-19-2018
Salesforce Launches Graphical Console to Program, Flow and Monitor IoT Devices (includes video)
Looking to help businesses unlock the potential of the IoT, Salesforce has launched IoT Explorer; a console that gives organizations a comprehensive view of the sensors, devices and other things that they have assembled into their Internet of Things. ProgrammableWeb's David Berlind gets a demo.
10-10-2017
readme.io's Build Looks To Greatly Simplify API Provisioning and Consumption (video)
Readme.io, a service that greatly simplifies the process of documenting technologies like APIs, is taking its popularity with API providers to the next level in a new offering called Build. Working off that tradition of simplicity, Build simplifies the design, provisioning and consumption of APIs.
09-29-2017
Why To Treat and Manage Your APIs as Products
As you go through the decisions involved in setting up the business side of managing an API, it becomes clear that you will need to treat the API as a product in order for it to succeed. But what does that mean and how do you do that? This part takes you through the things you need to consider.
09-27-2017
Open Source Pioneer Bruce Perens: Facebook's New GraphQL License Too Restrictive
After enduring controversy over its original license (referred to as "BSD+Patents") for the React framework and then capitulating by switching to the open source MIT license, Facebook has announced a license for GraphQL that open source pioneer Bruce Perens says is too restrictive (includes video).
09-27-2017
Daily API RoundUp: Google's ARCore, PushRadar, Easy Blockchain
Fourteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Internet of Things, eCommerce, Backend, and Location. Highlights today include Google's ARCore, which gives Android users AR without specialized Tango hardware. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
09-02-2017
Daily API RoundUp: MATLAB, Alfresco, Deis, WebSanitize
Fifteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Content Management, DeVops, and Enterprise. Highlights today include APIs for OpenRainbow business collaboration services and an API for monitoring text for swear words. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
08-22-2017
How to Turn Existing Web Pages Into RESTful APIs With Import.io
Getting structured data out of web pages — often referred to as "web scraping" — is a real need, particularly for people whose job it is to prepare and analyze the information that's available in web pages. Meeting this need is right up the alley of a data extraction tool, such as Import.io.
07-05-2017
Google App Engine Gets Full Java 8 Support
Platform as a Service (PaaS) is widely considered to be the ideal way to get your applications to the cloud. Google with its App Engine product was among the first off the blocks and the last few years have seen steady fixes and enhancements to the platform.
07-02-2017
Daily API RoundUp: GitHub GraphQL, Bynder, Manheim, MoneyPot
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Marketing, Gambling, Natural Language Processing, and Weather. One highlight today is the MoneyPot API for creating betting games that use bitcoin as currency. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
05-27-2017
Google Announces Cloud IoT Core to Help Connect and Manage IoT Devices
The Internet of Things has seen significant growth in the last few years and enterprises are looking to manage their large device installations. Big players in the cloud space have been positioning themselves as IoT platform providers, since they have many of the necessary services in place.
05-22-2017
Daily API RoundUp: DigitalGlobe GBDX, Aeries, YaCy, QBOS
Fifteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Mapping, Search, PaaS, and Education. Highlighted today is an API for managing, editing, and delivering images from Amend Cloud and APIs from DigitalGlobe for accessing Earth satellite imagery.
05-16-2017
Join Two ProgrammableWeb Talks: Building Developer Community and What's Beyond REST
On April 20th in San Francisco at MuleSoft's Connect conference, ProgrammableWeb's David Berlind is hosting two separate sessions. One is a panel discussion talking about options to the REST API architectural style and when they're appropriate. The other session is on building developer community.
04-14-2017
Daily API RoundUp: Google Cloud Video Intelligence, Pi, TransferWise, HMRC
Twenty-Four APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including eCommerce, Air Travel, Security, and Accounting. One highlight today is an API from Google that can recognize and identify objects in video frames. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
04-11-2017
Daily API RoundUp: Voysis, Radar, Monique.io, Minio
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Finance, Location, Security and Education. Featured today the Voysis API that gives voice-enabled applications natural language instruction and brand search and discovery abilities. Here's a rundown of what is new.
03-11-2017
Daily API RoundUp: Docker Secrets, OpenFinTech, DataNerds
Fifteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Finance, Data Mining, and Artificial Intelligence. Highlights today include an API for automobile diagnostics and an API from NCI for cancer research clinical trials. Here's a look at what is new.
02-17-2017
Daily API RoundUp: CAD.ai, EHRI, Ampache, Tago, ChatPirate
Twenty Five APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories such as Streaming, Banking, Open Data, and Chat. Featured today are APIs from smart CAD API platform, CAD.ai and APIs from smart televison content discovery provider Kannuu. Have a look at what is new.
01-26-2017