It’s been a busy week on ProgrammableWeb, with 18 new web service APIs added to our listings. They cover a wide range from APIs for financial market data, to video chat APIs to major telephony APIs. Since we won’t have time to cover all of these individually (as with our Do the Green Thi...

Innovation in web service APIs is not always technical, sometimes it’s about money. Such is the case with Yahoo’s announcement that later this year they will begin charging for usage of BOSS (Build your Own Search Service), their search web service for developers. Given that search reven...

One of the big debates these days when it comes to cloud computing center around portability and interoperability between providers. That is, if you build an application on Amazon’s EC2 or Google’s AppEngine or Force.com, or store your data on Box.net or Amazon’s S3, how hard is it...

Not all API providers know how to make developers happy. In fact, although there are now over 1,100 web service APIs available, many of those API providers fail to really understand the needs and motivations of their (potential) developer community. For evidence of how developers can react to both w...

Did you ever want to have a quick-and-easy way to test-out an API without having to write code? Now with the YouTube API you can. They now offer developers this web-based interactive form which lets you explore and interact with the YouTube API. You can setup and test API calls directly: choose oper...

Google announced Friend Connect today, a new service that will allow any web site to enable social networking features for their visitors. And the key piece of the strategy is that to do so only takes a few lines code, similar to the ease with which AdSense ads can be to any web page. By walking thr...

Hardly a week goes by these days without an API or other developer-related announcement from Google. And given that they now have over 35 different APIs as well as whole platforms like Android, Google will be hosting their first multi-day developer event next month: Google I/O. Last year they had a ...

As of today, the powerful Google Translate service that lets you translate between 13 different languages and 29 language pairs is now available as a handy JavaScript-based API. Given the breadth of the engine it’s built on, it already supports languages including Russian, Korean, Arabic, Ital...

Over at ReadWriteWeb, Marshall Kirkpatrick takes a thorough and engaging look at APIs and Developer Platforms: A Discussion on the Pros and Cons. Marshall spoke with a wide variety of people in the industry to pull together a lot of the key ideas and issues in this space. Here are some of the highli...