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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
Salesforce Has Cracked The Code On Demystifying Machine Learning For Mortals (includes audio)
To laypeople, the high potential disciplines of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and data science are enigmas. Most people don't even know what these terms mean, let alone what to do about them. But, in its Einstein portfolio of AI offerings, Salesforce has cracked the code.
12-01-2017
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
TRX Systems' 3D "Indoor GPS" Solutions Guide First Responders In Lethal Situations (includes podcast)
Largely in response to learnings from terrorism-related events, there's a new protocol for first responders that involves their entry into buildings before they're fully cleared of any danger. Commanding a situation like that requires GPS-like 3D indoor mapping technology where no GPS exists.
10-05-2017
Meet the New Breed of Developer (Found at the Nearly 70 Year-Old ASICS)
Whether you're leading your decades-old organization through a digital transformation or you're a developer plotting out your career path, you'd better get to know and understand the new breed of developer. She or he is not just a software engineer, s/he's a businessperson too (includes a podcast)
09-29-2017
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
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
Google Fit Developer Challenge Promotes Healthy Competition
Google has announced a developer challenge in hopes of promoting the creation of Google Fit applications. Submissions are being accepted until February 15, 2015.
11-19-2014
Ziftr Provides Cryptocurrency API Implementation Advice
Chris Dunleavy, strategist for Ziftr, talks about the growing number of companies that are building cryptocurrency-enabled products and APIs to support retail applications.
10-23-2014
Slice Aims to Deliver a Uniquely Powerful Shopping Data Set
Slice, a company focused on shopping data, has just released an API that delivers its unique data set to partners.
09-12-2014
Versal's Developer Platform Could Launch a Stealth Education Revolution
Online learning company Versal has launched an open developer program that aims to help developers build "learning gadgets" that enable teachers to build online courses.
09-04-2014
Interview: MediaMath Opens Access to the Facebook Exchange API
MediaMath opened up access to an exclusive Facebook API. We interviewed Wilfried Schobeiri, MediaMath's senior VP of technology, to get additional details on the big news.
08-28-2014
Inbox Launches Revolutionary Email Platform
To learn more about email platform company Inbox, which this week announced its new developer API and cloud service for building email apps, ProgrammableWeb caught up with co-founder and CEO Michael Grinich.
07-09-2014
Keen IO Helps Developers Solve Custom Analytics Needs
Keen IO is working to enable analytics easily for all APIs. The company provides analytics and data science features for mobile apps and web dashboards. By providing the basic infrastructure, analytics for APIs is made easier. In an interview with Dan Kador, co-founder and CTO of Keen IO, he shares his vision and plan for a more analytically layered programmable web.
06-09-2014
Heroku Announces Support for the New PHP
Today, Heroku makes a huge announcement around its support for PHP. PHP is currently one of the most popular languages driving the web. Although PHP drives the likes of some of the webs giants (e.g. Facebook, Etsy, etc.), PHP has traditionally lacked some qualities (e.g. runtime, management, infrastructure elements) that peers like Ruby on Rails, Python with Django, and Node have delivered for quite some time. On April 30, at Facebook's F8, a new PHP is announced with full Heroku support. On the evening of the announcement, ProgrammableWeb caught up with Heroku's Adam Gross.
05-01-2014
SmartBear Launches SoapUI 5.0
Today, SmartBear announced the general availability of SoapUI 5.0. SoapUI was specifically designed to tame the growing number of undocumented REST APIs on the market today. In preparation for the launch, ProgrammableWeb caught up with Matti Hjelm, SmartBear's SoapUI Product Owner, to learn more.
04-09-2014
Google Now Supports Shopping Campaigns with AdWords API
Google recently announced Shopping Campaign support via the AdWords API. To better understand the new offering, ProgrammableWeb caught up with Eric Tholomé, Google Product Management Director.
03-25-2014
3SCALE Launches AWS API Proxy
3SCALE recently announced the launch of the 3SCALE AWS API Proxy. The new offering allows anyone to setup an API management proxy on Amazon's AWS infrastructure. To learn more about the new API proxy, ProgrammableWeb caught up with 3SCALE CEO, Steve Willmott.
03-24-2014
Gargl Offers Open Source Scraping Solution for Unofficial API Creation
While the number of APIs grows by leaps and bounds every year, only a fraction of websites offer official APIs. Not willing to wait, those who want and need data are increasingly taking matters into their own hands through the creation of unofficial APIs. A new tool, Gargl, gives individuals an open-source option for doing just that.
03-07-2014