Google now has a home for launching beta tools and services for Google Maps.
Google introduced Maps Labs Friday, a cool new set of innovative add-ons to its popular map service that offers a multitude of new ways to explore places near and far. Google Maps Labs is an incubator to test features for the Google Maps service, in the same spirit as Gmail Labs. When you go to Google Maps, click on the green flask icon at the top, where eight new test features await.
Google bolsters an advanced segmentation feature in the Analytics Data Export API to enable examination of data nuances
Google on Monday unveiled enhancements to its Google Analytics Data Export API, bolstering an advanced segmentation capability for examining the nuances of data.
The company will release a new set of APIs
In an aggressive move, MySpace will open its users' public activity stream data to external developers, so that third-party applications and Web sites are able to display these status updates and action notifications.
The Federal Government will open its data to developers this week for GovHack
This week the Federal Government will open its data to web developers during its first hack day.
Google Labs unveils API for its Web page creation service
Google Inc. has a new API for Google Sites that should make it easier to add content and edit Web pages.
Follow that tweet! Twitter working on new API that will pinpoint Twitterers' whereabouts
Interested in tracking the Twitterers in your city or even your neighborhood? Or maybe you want to track the tweets sent from an area where there's a major event or disaster?
The micro-blogging service says everything's fixed but asks developers to alert it to ongoing problems
The technical problems that affected the performance and availability of third-party Twitter applications in recent days have been fixed, the micro-blogging and social networking company said Monday evening.
The future of Yahoo BOSS, Search Monkey and Yahoo search APIs is uncertain after the search deal with Microsoft
Yahoo's high-profile and widely used search APIs (application programming interfaces) and search programs for external developers are up in the air after the company's decision to outsource its search engine services to Microsoft.
Individual sellers are highly unlikely to need PayPal X
I just finished watching the PayPal Platform Preview, which was PayPal's official announcement of their new open development platform (it was previously leaked on TechCrunch). Officially called "PayPal X," the platform was presented by Osama Bedier (VP of platform and emerging technology) in broad, almost utopian terms, as something that would unleash waves of innovation transforming the way goods and services are delivered. Maybe.
Moving workloads from Amazon cloud to Rackspace will be possible
Rackspace Tuesday released an API allowing developers greater access to the company's cloud computing platform, and said that customers will be able to move workloads back and forth between the Amazon and Rackspace clouds.
New APIs will let developers create different payment scenarios funneled through PayPal's system
PayPal will soon open up its platform to third-party developers, allowing them to build applications with a range of money transfer options.
The Maps Data API lets developers host geodata in Google servers.
Google has released a new API for Google Maps designed to relieve developers of the burden of maintaining their own repositories for geographical data.
Opening up key to securing channel partners, integrating with legacy apps
One big obstacle to SaaS vendors getting their applications adopted more widely is that so many of them don't offer open APIs. Offering APIs is crucial for vendors to get their applications supported by channel partners and for customers looking to integrate SaaS offerings with legacy applications, said participants on the panel for a lively but lightly attended session Tuesday at Interop in Las Vegas dubbed "Herding cats: Managing SaaS sprawl."
New Facebook app lets users see realtime streams running on desktops or cell phones
Facebook, Inc. Monday moved to virtually free the activity streams of its users.
Applications created with the new API will for the first time let members manage activity streams outside of Facebook
Highlighting the rising popularity of real-time action notifications in social networks, Facebook will let external developers access the "activity stream" its members display on their profiles.
