Comments on: 5 Predictions for APIs in 2011

By: warren

warren — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:25:21 +0000

@shanley http://t.co/pZmGwDq3 you were definitely right about #2 and #3.

By: Jason Sjobeck

Jason Sjobeck — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:09:23 +0000

We use & recommend & sell NetSuite & love it. They have an excellent API. At the same time, we would like to see them open up even more, they need to support OAuth & openID & SAML & CalDav & et cetera (I could go on) many other accepted & adopted technologies to integrate their service even better with the infrastructures already in place out there.

By: The Building Blocks for a Successful API Strategy: Tech News and Analysis «

The Building Blocks for a Successful API Strategy: Tech News and Analysis « — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:00:48 +0000

[...] companies have launched API programs, and many more will in 2011. Some have used their API to become unstoppable market forces by empowering a new indirect channel. [...]

By: Are APIs the New Black?: Tech News and Analysis «

Are APIs the New Black?: Tech News and Analysis « — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:16:03 +0000

[...] one web app and transferring it to another. In chats with entrepreneurs at South By Southwest the API has become a basic building block, but what seems relatively unexplored is who has access to that building block and the capricious [...]

By: brutus9448

brutus9448 — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:49:33 +0000

We use JaxView for our private cloud governance and CloudGate for our public cloud governance. Both products are from Managed Methods. They are much more comprehensive than APIGee especially when it comes to security and monitoring. It costs a fraction of APIGee as well.

By: Jerome Louvel

Jerome Louvel — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:07:25 +0000

Thanks for the excellent summary! I agree that API security is also something essential that has quickly matured over the past years with the new OAuth 2.0 version almost ready.

Another great resource to read is this presentation
“Open APIs: State of the market” (Dec. 2010)
http://www.slideshare.net/jmusser/open-api-ecosystem-overview-december-2010

As for API frameworks, I’d like to mention the Restlet Framework for the Java land which exists since 2005 and has been built from scratch on top of REST and HTTP and is ideal to develop solid, self documented, secure and scalable web APIs.

It is easy to deploy in various environments (Google App Engine, Tomcat (Azure, EC2, WebLogic) and easy to use on the client-side (same Java classes) with editions for regular Java VMs, Android and Google Web Toolkit (pure JavaScript).

By: Gazing into the Crystal Ball: GigaOm on APIs in 2011

Gazing into the Crystal Ball: GigaOm on APIs in 2011 — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:06:10 +0000

[...] are the 5 Predictions for APIs in 2011: 1. APIs Go Real-time, Big-time 2. Developers Will Adopt HTML5 3. JSON Rises, XML Wanes 4. More [...]

By: Andrew Wilson

Andrew Wilson — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:08:17 +0000

Good to see that HTML5 is building up a following and support, also great news that there may soon be a decent standard for API implementation, is PubSubHubBub the successor to XMPP, it seems to have had a pretty short run..

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Power developing « My LinkDaddy — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:11:16 +0000

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By: Joe Wagner

Joe Wagner — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 06:11:49 +0000

What about security when using APIs? Is there anything new to report from 2010 or to expect from 2011 regarding APIs and the security of data as it’s transmitted to or from the application?