Apigee Announced an API Exchange Friday
www.apify.co
on 04/02/2013
Excerpt: A decade ago, during the first wave of Internet innovation, countless business plans began with the breathless promise of becoming the UN of this or that information exchange. ECommerce and communications would be transformed through the mediation of a neutral “man in the middle”. Here's what happened: the communitarian exchanges failed; businesses that went direct to consumers succeeded; the hope for communal mediation was left to overreaching consortia grasping after fading relevance. Why did the “disintermediated” direct-to-buyer model win? Simple: it was simplicity. The problem with multilateral exchanges is complexity.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Apify, Blog, Cloud, From, Googlereader, Ifttt, Management, the
API Business ROI | APIfy
www.apify.co
on 03/07/2013
Excerpt: Numerous measurements exist for APIs. On the technical level, these metrics are fairly well understood. However, on the business level, there is a great deal of confusion over how the effectiveness of an API program can be accurately measured. Layer 7’s March 14 webinar, ROI for APIs – which will feature input from TechCrunch and AT&T – should help to clear up some of this confusion. In particular, the webinar will focus on how hackthons can be used to gather valuable data for API ROI measurement. How you measure your API ROI will depend on the purpose your APIs play in the greater business picture.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Apify, APIs, Blog, Cloud, From, Googlereader, Ifttt, Management, ROI, the
Mezeo Interoperability API Provides Support for Apps Developed for Other Storage Clouds
www.thewhir.com
on 12/19/2012
Excerpt: Cloud storage firm Mezeo Software (www. mezeo. com) has announced the general availability of the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform 3. 0, which includes the Mezeo Interoperability API that promises seamless interoperability of applications developed for Amazon S3, Google and Eucalyptus-based storage clouds. According to Mezeo’s Monday announcement, the latest Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform and the Mezeo Interoperability API gives developers greater flexibility when utilizing storage clouds.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Cloud, Interoperability, Mezeo, Storage
SoftLayer API: Streamline. Simplify.
blog.softlayer.com
on 12/19/2012
Excerpt: Posted by Kevin Hazard in Development, SoftLayer Building an API is a bit of a balancing act. You want your API to be simple and easy to use, and you want it to be feature-rich and completely customizable. Because those two desires happen to live on opposite ends of the spectrum, every API finds a different stasis in terms of how complex and customizable they are. The SoftLayer API was designed to provide customers with granular control of every action associated with any product or service on our platform; anything you can do in our customer portal can be done via our API.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Database, Softlayer
Cloud API Standardization – It’s Time to Get Serious
www.cloudbzz.com
on 05/21/2012
Excerpt: Lots of people continue to perpetuate the idea that the AWS APIs are a de facto standard, so we should just all move on about it. At the same time, everybody seems to acknowledge the fact that Amazon has never ever indicated that they want to be a true standard. Are we reallyIn fact, they have played quite the coy game and kept silent luring potential competitors into a false sense of complacency. Amazon has licensed their APIs to Eucalyptus under what I and others broadly assume to be a a hard and fast restriction to the enterprise private cloud market. I would not be surprised to learn that the restrictions went further – perhaps prohibiting Eucalyptus from offering any other API or claiming compatibility with other clouds.... read the full post.
Tags: APIs, Cloud
On The Issue Of Standardization Around AWS APIs
www.cloudave.com
on 05/14/2012
Excerpt: I am an vocal opponent of the idea of standardization around AWS API *at this point of time*. I think that it is too early to standardize and too risky especially when Amazon has not released the APIs under one of the open licenses like Creative Commons. Stephen O’Grady from Redmonk highlights the second part very well in his blog post and I thought it is worth sharing in this space. That said, it’s worth noting that many large entities are already behaving as if APIs are in fact copyrightable. The most obvious indication of this is Amazon. Most large vendors we have spoken with consider Amazon’s APIs a non-starter, given the legal uncertainties regarding the intellectual property involved.... read the full post.
Tags: Amazon, APIs, Cloud, Copyright
Cloud API Security Panel at Infosec
blog.programmableweb.com
on 05/07/2012
Excerpt: This guest post comes from Andreas Krohn, API Specialist and consultant at Dopter. He blogs about APIs at Mashup. se (in Swedish) and develops tools to make APIs successful at APIHQ. Cloud API Security was the topic for a panel discussion at the Infosec conference in London April 26th. After a brief introduction of what APIs are, how companies are becoming platforms and what security implications this has the discussion mostly focused on how to secure mobile apps and how to keep security tokens protected. There is a significant risk with baking in a security token in a mobile app. It is quite easy to listen to the traffic between the app and the server and catch the token, even if the traffic is encrypted.... read the full post.
My Thoughts: Wish I could have been on this panel. Oh well. Definitely a subject that will come up over and over as more companies open up company resources via APIs. Great post Andreas.
Tags: 3Scale, Andreas Krohn, Cloud, InfoSec, OAuth, ProgrammableWeb, Security
Excerpt: Numerous measurements exist for APIs. On the technical level, these metrics are fairly well understood. However, on the business level, there is a great deal of confusion over how the effectiveness of an API program can be accurately measured. Layer 7’s March 14 webinar, ROI for APIs – which will feature input from TechCrunch and AT&T – should help to clear up some of this confusion. In particular, the webinar will focus on how hackthons can be used to gather valuable data for API ROI measurement. How you measure your API ROI will depend on the purpose your APIs play in the greater business picture.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Apify, APIs, Blog, Cloud, From, Googlereader, Ifttt, Management, ROI, the
Mezeo Interoperability API Provides Support for Apps Developed for Other Storage Clouds
www.thewhir.com
on 12/19/2012
Excerpt: Cloud storage firm Mezeo Software (www. mezeo. com) has announced the general availability of the Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform 3. 0, which includes the Mezeo Interoperability API that promises seamless interoperability of applications developed for Amazon S3, Google and Eucalyptus-based storage clouds. According to Mezeo’s Monday announcement, the latest Mezeo Cloud Storage Platform and the Mezeo Interoperability API gives developers greater flexibility when utilizing storage clouds.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Cloud, Interoperability, Mezeo, Storage
SoftLayer API: Streamline. Simplify.
blog.softlayer.com
on 12/19/2012
Excerpt: Posted by Kevin Hazard in Development, SoftLayer Building an API is a bit of a balancing act. You want your API to be simple and easy to use, and you want it to be feature-rich and completely customizable. Because those two desires happen to live on opposite ends of the spectrum, every API finds a different stasis in terms of how complex and customizable they are. The SoftLayer API was designed to provide customers with granular control of every action associated with any product or service on our platform; anything you can do in our customer portal can be done via our API.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Database, Softlayer
Cloud API Standardization – It’s Time to Get Serious
www.cloudbzz.com
on 05/21/2012
Excerpt: Lots of people continue to perpetuate the idea that the AWS APIs are a de facto standard, so we should just all move on about it. At the same time, everybody seems to acknowledge the fact that Amazon has never ever indicated that they want to be a true standard. Are we reallyIn fact, they have played quite the coy game and kept silent luring potential competitors into a false sense of complacency. Amazon has licensed their APIs to Eucalyptus under what I and others broadly assume to be a a hard and fast restriction to the enterprise private cloud market. I would not be surprised to learn that the restrictions went further – perhaps prohibiting Eucalyptus from offering any other API or claiming compatibility with other clouds.... read the full post.
Tags: APIs, Cloud
On The Issue Of Standardization Around AWS APIs
www.cloudave.com
on 05/14/2012
Excerpt: I am an vocal opponent of the idea of standardization around AWS API *at this point of time*. I think that it is too early to standardize and too risky especially when Amazon has not released the APIs under one of the open licenses like Creative Commons. Stephen O’Grady from Redmonk highlights the second part very well in his blog post and I thought it is worth sharing in this space. That said, it’s worth noting that many large entities are already behaving as if APIs are in fact copyrightable. The most obvious indication of this is Amazon. Most large vendors we have spoken with consider Amazon’s APIs a non-starter, given the legal uncertainties regarding the intellectual property involved.... read the full post.
Tags: Amazon, APIs, Cloud, Copyright
Cloud API Security Panel at Infosec
blog.programmableweb.com
on 05/07/2012
Excerpt: This guest post comes from Andreas Krohn, API Specialist and consultant at Dopter. He blogs about APIs at Mashup. se (in Swedish) and develops tools to make APIs successful at APIHQ. Cloud API Security was the topic for a panel discussion at the Infosec conference in London April 26th. After a brief introduction of what APIs are, how companies are becoming platforms and what security implications this has the discussion mostly focused on how to secure mobile apps and how to keep security tokens protected. There is a significant risk with baking in a security token in a mobile app. It is quite easy to listen to the traffic between the app and the server and catch the token, even if the traffic is encrypted.... read the full post.
My Thoughts: Wish I could have been on this panel. Oh well. Definitely a subject that will come up over and over as more companies open up company resources via APIs. Great post Andreas.
Tags: 3Scale, Andreas Krohn, Cloud, InfoSec, OAuth, ProgrammableWeb, Security
Excerpt: Posted by Kevin Hazard in Development, SoftLayer Building an API is a bit of a balancing act. You want your API to be simple and easy to use, and you want it to be feature-rich and completely customizable. Because those two desires happen to live on opposite ends of the spectrum, every API finds a different stasis in terms of how complex and customizable they are. The SoftLayer API was designed to provide customers with granular control of every action associated with any product or service on our platform; anything you can do in our customer portal can be done via our API.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Database, Softlayer
Cloud API Standardization – It’s Time to Get Serious
www.cloudbzz.com
on 05/21/2012
Excerpt: Lots of people continue to perpetuate the idea that the AWS APIs are a de facto standard, so we should just all move on about it. At the same time, everybody seems to acknowledge the fact that Amazon has never ever indicated that they want to be a true standard. Are we reallyIn fact, they have played quite the coy game and kept silent luring potential competitors into a false sense of complacency. Amazon has licensed their APIs to Eucalyptus under what I and others broadly assume to be a a hard and fast restriction to the enterprise private cloud market. I would not be surprised to learn that the restrictions went further – perhaps prohibiting Eucalyptus from offering any other API or claiming compatibility with other clouds.... read the full post.
Tags: APIs, Cloud
On The Issue Of Standardization Around AWS APIs
www.cloudave.com
on 05/14/2012
Excerpt: I am an vocal opponent of the idea of standardization around AWS API *at this point of time*. I think that it is too early to standardize and too risky especially when Amazon has not released the APIs under one of the open licenses like Creative Commons. Stephen O’Grady from Redmonk highlights the second part very well in his blog post and I thought it is worth sharing in this space. That said, it’s worth noting that many large entities are already behaving as if APIs are in fact copyrightable. The most obvious indication of this is Amazon. Most large vendors we have spoken with consider Amazon’s APIs a non-starter, given the legal uncertainties regarding the intellectual property involved.... read the full post.
Tags: Amazon, APIs, Cloud, Copyright
Cloud API Security Panel at Infosec
blog.programmableweb.com
on 05/07/2012
Excerpt: This guest post comes from Andreas Krohn, API Specialist and consultant at Dopter. He blogs about APIs at Mashup. se (in Swedish) and develops tools to make APIs successful at APIHQ. Cloud API Security was the topic for a panel discussion at the Infosec conference in London April 26th. After a brief introduction of what APIs are, how companies are becoming platforms and what security implications this has the discussion mostly focused on how to secure mobile apps and how to keep security tokens protected. There is a significant risk with baking in a security token in a mobile app. It is quite easy to listen to the traffic between the app and the server and catch the token, even if the traffic is encrypted.... read the full post.
My Thoughts: Wish I could have been on this panel. Oh well. Definitely a subject that will come up over and over as more companies open up company resources via APIs. Great post Andreas.
Tags: 3Scale, Andreas Krohn, Cloud, InfoSec, OAuth, ProgrammableWeb, Security
Excerpt: I am an vocal opponent of the idea of standardization around AWS API *at this point of time*. I think that it is too early to standardize and too risky especially when Amazon has not released the APIs under one of the open licenses like Creative Commons. Stephen O’Grady from Redmonk highlights the second part very well in his blog post and I thought it is worth sharing in this space. That said, it’s worth noting that many large entities are already behaving as if APIs are in fact copyrightable. The most obvious indication of this is Amazon. Most large vendors we have spoken with consider Amazon’s APIs a non-starter, given the legal uncertainties regarding the intellectual property involved.... read the full post.
Tags: Amazon, APIs, Cloud, Copyright
