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• Oracle wants copyright claims to remain in Google suit

  Oracle said that no court has ever found that APIs for software like Java are ineligible for copyright protection, in its objection to Google's request that the court make a summary judgment on Oracle's copyright allegations.

• Red Hat offers its cloud APIs as industry standard

  As the industry call for cloud interoperability grows more fervent, open-source enterprise software company Red Hat has submitted its cloud platform, Deltacloud, to the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) as a potential standard for cloud interoperability, the company said Wednesday.

• Alcatel-Lucent acquires Web mashup API directory

  Alcatel-Lucent has acquired ProgrammableWeb, which hosts an on-line directory of over 2,000 open web APIs (application programming interfaces) that developers can use to build 'mashups' of Web services.

• Facebook wants the Web's default to be social

  Facebook has revamped its application development platform to make it possible for the social-networking site and other Web sites to mesh what they know about their end-users and automatically personalize the experience people have online.

• Twitter courts developers with new tools

  Twitter is promising new tools for developers to help them make better use of the 55 million tweets being pumped out every day by people who use its service.

• Twitter's @anywhere could usher in big improvements

  Many South by Southwest attendees reportedly walked out halfway through the keynote appearance by Twitter CEO Evan Williams this week citing boredom, but the announcement he made on stage deserves careful attention, according to industry experts.

• Twitter to simplify integration of 'tweets' into Web sites

  Twitter plans to launch a new platform that lets Web publishers display 'tweets' on their sites more broadly and easily than is possible today via the company's APIs (application programming interfaces).

• Google Maps Labs: A fun new Google tool

  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 enhances Analytics API

  Google on Monday unveiled enhancements to its Google Analytics Data Export API, bolstering an advanced segmentation capability for examining the nuances of data.

• MySpace opens activity stream to external developers

  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.

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  Government: Come hack our data

  This week the Federal Government will open its data to web developers during its first hack day.

• Google looks to ease editing with new Google Sites API

  Google Inc. has a new API for Google Sites that should make it easier to add content and edit Web pages.

• Twitter helps users track tweets by location

  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?

• Twitter: latest application platform problems solved

  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.

• Future uncertain for Yahoo developer programs

  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.