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eBay to open site

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eBay Inc. is opening up to third parties to integrate applications directly onto its site. This move will give developers unprecedented access to eBay’s community of professional sellers, creating more opportunities for developers to market their tools and giving sellers a wider variety of sales optimization applications.

Developers interested in building applications on eBay.com will be required to meet site standards for trusted buying and selling experiences. Once approved, developers have an opportunity for their applications to be discovered by business sellers on eBay.com, and will be in a position to monetize their application with subscription-based revenue.

Originally posted on June 16, 2008 @ 6:06 pm

New York Times Plans API

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With enough scandals to earn the pet name New York Slimes in some circles, The New York times has suffered a dramatic fall from grace.  While it’s no secret that papers across the world have suffered blows to circulation at the hands of the Internet, the Times is hoping to boost online readership with an API that will make the entire newspaper “programmable.”

By opening up the Website’s code, programmers will be able to mashup structured content. The Times expects to make the full-blown API available to the public in approximately six months.

At the forefront of digital technology over the past year with a Facebook app, news aggregator and reader comments on the homepage, NYT has proven they are willing to adapt.

Read more at ReadWriteWeb.

Originally posted on May 26, 2008 @ 1:45 pm

Picnik.com offers photo editing tools through Photobucket’s Open API

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picnik-feature.jpgPicnik has launched its Photobucket integration. Using Photobucket’s just-released API, Picnik provides Photobucket’s nearly 40 million users with its popular photo editing tools, special effects, unique shapes, customized fonts and frames – all from where their photos are already stored.

With this API integration, Picnik users can now bridge seamlessly with Photobucket to edit and enhance their digital photos. Picnik users will have a Photobucket ‘tab’ placed within Picnik.com, have the ability to create a Photobucket specific album, view and edit all their Photobucket images and save their “Picniked” photos back to Photobucket — all without ever having to leave the page.

The Photobucket API now enables all developers, including Picnik, to create applications that let users access their Photobucket photos and videos from environments outside Photobucket.com. Since the Photobucket API works on any device with an Internet connection, those environments might include other Web sites, Web applications, desktop applications, browser plug-ins, mobile phones, home-entertainment systems, digital photo frames and digital cameras.

Originally posted on April 22, 2008 @ 5:16 pm

BigOven Cookbook Application built using Sharedbook API

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The BigOven Cookbook utilizes the SharedBook API, which is publicly available for any site to use. In less than eight weeks, BigOven.com developed a market-ready solution to automatically flow recipes and photographs into SharedBook’s Reverse Publishing Platform for on-demand output in a choice of formats.

BigOven.com is the first company to offer multiple ways to connect to SharedBook. Users of the social network about food can create cookbooks from www.bigoven.com or from BigOven’s award-winning desktop recipe software for Windows™ PCs. Community members can make a book based on any set of search results on the site, or directly from one of the many Cooking Groups that are offered.

After making several selections, individuals can see an online preview of the completed product, and are given the choice to purchase the cookbook or to personalize it further.

Originally posted on April 3, 2008 @ 10:23 am

YouTube opens API

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To rival Hulu’s opening to the public, YouTube today opened up its API to developers allowing other web sites to be… like YouTube. Web sites can now allow their users to be on YouTube without leaving their sites. Other features of the opened APIs include: Upload videos and video responses to YouTube; Add/Edit user and video metadata (titles, descriptions, ratings, comments, favorites, contacts, etc); Fetch localized standard feeds (most viewed, top rated, etc.) for 18 international locales; Perform custom queries optimized for 18 international locales; and Customize player UI and control video playback (pause, play, stop, etc.) through software.

Originally posted on March 12, 2008 @ 3:21 pm