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LinkedIn API Platform Goes Live: Your Resume and Business Network Now Have an API
Perhaps your most important online network of business contacts is now programmable. LinkedIn launched its API (our LinkedIn API profile), which allows developers to access a user's connections and anyone's profile data, in addition to several other features. Though some are saying "finally," it's clearly not too late for LinkedIn, who aims to be the professional networking platform.
11-23-2009
Intuit's New QuickBooks Services Bridge the Desktop and the Cloud
Intuit has announced the release of several new resources for developers to integrate desktop applications with web-based applications. The new Intuit App Center allows QuickBooks users to access third party web applications developed with the Intuit Partner Platform. This move effectively bridges Intuit's suite of desktop accounting software with applications that run in the cloud.
10-27-2009
On the Same Day: London Paper Opens API, Announces Publication is Closing
The free evening newspaper The London Paper made headlines itself last week, for two seemingly contradictory reasons. First, New Media Age reported the paper is launching an API. Then, further reports said it will cease publishing in less than a month.
09-10-2009
Yammer Opens Enterprise Microblogging API
Yammer, a microblogging-for-business site and winner of the top prize at the recent TechCrunch50 conference, has released an API to allow developers to build their own applications around the service (Yammer API profile). Created by the people behind genealogy site Geni, Yammer has taken the tried and tested Twitter model, which asks users to answer the question "What are you doing?" in 140 characters or less, and adapted it for businesses, turning the question into "What are you working on?"
09-18-2008
An API for Freelancers: FreeAgent
Freelancers can use the FreeAgent money management tool for a variety of tasks, including project management, time tracking, and invoicing.
07-24-2008