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OpenWater Opens Application and Review Management Software to Developers
OpenWater is opening up its software platform to third party developers. Through the OpenWater SDK and API, third parties can directly integrate application and review management to their list of services. Prior to the API and SDK, users had to outsource the process to OpenWater.
03-12-2020
Automatically Ignore Trolls With Twitter’s New Hide Replies API Endpoint
In late 2019 Twitter announced Hide Replies, a new feature that was designed to allow users to choose which replies to their content are hidden from the conversation. This troll taming functionality is now being exposed via API, allowing developers to automate the process.
02-26-2020
Four51 Rebuilds and Relaunches OrderCloud.io Developer Portal
Four51 has redesigned and relaunched its OrderCloud.io developer portal. The new portal was rebuilt from the ground up with key features including a UI designed for developers and non developers, persistent tabs, document searchability, and open sourced documentation available at Github.
02-25-2020
Apollo GraphQL Co-Founder Geoff Schmidt Discusses Federation of The Graph (video)
In this episode of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock podcast, ProgrammableWeb's David Berlind and Bob Reselman talk GraphQL with Geoff Schmidt, co-founder of Apollo GraphQL; the leading solution provider for standing-up GraphQL-based APIs. Federation of "the graphs" was one of the many topics.
02-25-2020
Twilio Study Reveals Erosion Of Consumer Trust in Telephone Infrastucture Due to Robocalls
Twilio has released its annual State of Customer Engagement Report and to find out more about the report and the trends that it spotlights, ProgrammableWeb's editor-in-chief David Berlind captured a video interview with Al Cook, the company's Vice President and General Manager of AI
02-20-2020
How to Craft a Command Line Experience that Developers Love
If you're trying to build a highly usable developer tool, then a proper Command Line Interface (CLI) to interface with your API is paramount. This article outlines what we found to be best practices among other CLI tools and developers' needs when it comes to building a proper CLI.
02-12-2020
SoundCloud API Issues Exposed by Security Researchers
Security researchers have identified various vulnerabilities within the SoundCloud API that could have allowed attackers to gain access to user accounts and easily initiate DDoS attacks. Checkmarx Research conducted an investigation into the online social music platform.
02-11-2020
Twitter API Attack Matches Millions of Users’ Phone Numbers to Usernames
Twitter recently announced that on December 24, 2019, it became aware of a large network of fake accounts that were abusing the company’s API to match phone numbers to user’s accounts. Twitter noted that these attacks may be connected to state-sponsored actors from Iran, Israel, and Malaysia.
02-04-2020
February's DC-Area API Meetup to Feature Talks on Artificial Intelligence and APIs 101 (Part 2)
It's almost February and do you know what that means? It’s time for another monthly API meetup in Washington, DC! The February edition of the meetup is Tuesday, Feb 4, 2020 and will feature two talks; one on succeeding with APIs for artificial intelligence and the other is an APIs 101 talk.
01-27-2020
From the DC-Area API Meetup: How an Alternative Data API Can Be Used To Improve Predictive Analysis
From the DC Area API Meetup, Accrue Ltd. CEO Benoit Brookens III discusses the concept of alternative data and how it can be used to improve predictive analysis. In his presentation, Brookens looks back at typhoons rated as 8 or higher and correlates their timing to movement in financial markets.
01-14-2020
Top 20 APIs of 2019 Based on Twitter Traffic
Social media outlets such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter can be a great resource for developers. This is why we try to promote all APIs that were added to ProgrammableWeb on Twitter. In this article, we detail the top twenty APIs that were tweeted about on ProgrammableWeb during 2019.
01-06-2020
Top 10 API Articles of 2019 Based on Twitter Traffic
ProgrammableWeb's most popular articles according to our Twitter followers include our guide for developer portals and most popular APIs. Find out what other API news, analysis and how-to articles the Twitterverse found interesting enough to click on in this round up of articles from 2019.
12-31-2019
ProgrammableWeb's Most Clicked, Shared and Talked About APIs of 2019: eCommerce, Marketing, and Social
This segment of the past year's APIs focuses on eCommerce, Sales, Marketing and Social Media. Sub categories covered here include Advertising, Content, Printing, Products, Coupons, CRM, Taxes, Feedback, Auctions, Shipping, Ratings, Personalization, SEO, Engagement and others.
12-29-2019
Facebook Enhances App Dashboard
Facebook has introduced a number of new features to its App Dashboard. The changes target improving the app review process and giving developers more insight and control over managing permissions. Facebook also gets more information regarding how developers use the Facebook platform.
12-19-2019
solo.io Announced Gloo v1.0
One of solo.io's flagship products, Gloo, is now production-ready as version 1.0. Gloo is a cloud-native API gateway and ingress controller built on Envoy Proxy. Its goal is to connect, secure, and control all application traffic. solo.io is hosting a demo webinar December 5th.
11-15-2019
Daily API RoundUp: Yuvvis, CarsXE, HIN Decoder, Audiogum, DaniWeb
Ten APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Translation, Human Resources, and Social. Highlights include an API to integrate with data from DaniWeb online developer community, and an API for time series data analysis. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
11-14-2019
Stripe Launches a Command Line Interface
Stripe introduced a CLI. The CLI should eliminate all the back and forth between terminal, code editor and dashboard that developers are accustomed to when developing and testing Stripe integrations. The CLI includes webhook and API log testing as well as API object creation and updates.
11-05-2019
Facebook Introduces v5.0 of Graph and Marketing APIs
Facebook introduced v5.0 of both its Graph and Marketing APIs. Most of the changes were to the Marketing API. The Marketing API includes a brand new API: the Ad Volume API. The API will help advertisers understand the number of ads they are running, and help comply with upcoming policy changes.
11-01-2019
Facebook Outlines Messenger Platform Updates
Facebook’s newly released update to the Messenger Platform includes new functionality, improvements to existing tools, while also deprecated legacy endpoints. Changes to the platform impact Click-to-Messenger Ads and provide new tools to encourage user engagement.
10-30-2019
Vonage Streamlines Multi-Channel Communication via New Conversation API
Vonage, a provider of cloud communication services, has announced a new API that is designed to provide developers with the tool necessary for creating and managing conversations across various messaging channels in real-time. The Conversation API is the latest addition to the Vonage API Platform.
10-30-2019