Twitter plans to retire its API v1 in March 2013, will run blackout tests to help understand its impact
Twitter has revealed its plans to retire its API v1 next month. In its announcement, the company says that all authenticated and unauthenticated requests to that API version will return a “HTTP 410 Gone” status. A notable casualty of this retirement is that the @anywhere framework will also be permanently shuttered — beginning March 5, 2013. Last More...
InternetDJ API: Make Your Off-Label Music Spin
The InternetDJ API opens this electronic music site to your app. Since 1997 (not a typo!) composers and fans have been able to share and mix music and videos. According to the API’s website, requests More...
YouTube API version 3.0 now here
Raul Furnica, Vladimir Vuskovic and Pepijn Crouzen of the YouTube API Team has raised the curtain on the YouTube API version 3.0 in an official blog post. The post claims that YouTube API version 3.0 will enable More...
Mozilla bakes Facebook features into Firefox 17
Computerworld – Mozilla Tuesday released Firefox 17, which debuts technology that lets developers integrate social networks — for now, Facebook — with the browser. The company also patched 29 security More...
Want To Read App.net Status Messages In The Official Twitter App? Here’s How With Apparchy
The great thing about San Francisco is that it’s a small town in size. As I was walking to the office today I walked by uber-developer Steve Streza and we caught up on what he’s working on lately. Yesterday, More...
Open Source Fear Mongering Is Ridiculous With The Advent Of Open APIs
Open source fear mongering is still a reality. But in today’s world, it is nuanced with the belief that an open enterprise means open APIs. They are not the same and should not be confused. The issue surfaces More...
Following Facebook’s Shut Down Of Face.com’s Facial Recognition API, Lambda Labs Debuts An Open Source Alternative
Facebook retired Face.com’s facial recognition APIs less than a month after its $55-$60 million acquisition of the Israeli-based company, which previously offered developers tools to build applications that could More...
Twitter API Changes Are Already Posing Challenges To Tweetbot Developers
Tapbots has announced on their blog that the alpha version of Tweetbot for Mac will no longer be available. As Twitter limits an app’s user base to only 100,000 users, has fallen victim to the new API rules, albeit More...
The Twitter API as we know it is dead
Twitter’s API has been one of the most popular on the consumer internet for years, but Twitter’s relationship with developers has at times been quite tumultuous. There’s a good reason for that: More...
Facebook and Twitter are hurting the startup ecosystem – and developers won’t stand for it
As Twitter talks about tightening its API and Facebook pushes competitor features around, developers are getting louder and louder about their dissatisfaction with our most powerful social networks. These days, More...