Use this python library to interact with Instagram's photo sharing API. The unofficial library is authored by Boris Shifrin and is offered under a BSD license.
In asking whether "Twitter and Facebook are silos," Scripting News editor Dave Winer also broaches the question of whether their provisioning of APIs makes a difference.
DIY mobile app builder Appy Pie has launched a Video Social Networking API. The API allows apps to capture, edit, and share video clips up to 30 seconds long.
There are over 1,000 social APIs in the ProgrammableWeb directory. The big names in that list, Facebook, Google Plus, LinkedIn and Twitter, are also amongst the most popular public APIs overall. Since other API providers look to these leaders for examples in engaging with developers, I thought it would be useful to see how each uses a common communications medium. That's right, how do the social APIs use social media themselves?
