OPENi API Framework (Part I): Studying the landscape of cloud-based Services
www.openi-ict.eu
on 04/30/2013
Excerpt: Today, an emerging trend to expose functionalities through publicly available APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) has not only redefined how software and services are delivered, but also indicates how business value is moving towards a thriving high-paced mobile application ecosystem. Along these lines, the OPENi focal research contribution lies on the cloudlet concept and on an open API framework that will be capable of interoperating with any cloud-based service, abstracting the integration challenges to a single open standard without losing any service features.... read the full post.
Tags: Aggregation, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Interoperability, Reciprocity, Story
SaaS Automation: Progressing To The Next Frontier
blog.cloudwork.com
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: SaaS automation is becoming a necessity for any business that is looking to maintain productivity gains from using cloud-based business tools, says our CEO, Christophe Primault. According to entrepreneur and successful SaaS founder Jason Lemkin, getting apps to talk to each other is “a huge next frontier”. With at least 100 new business cloud apps being added to the market each month, any business making use of Software-as-a-Service can quickly end up repeating data entry in multiple business tools. It is a headache that mid-size companies are currently facing, with small business on a path to growth also being hit.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Interoperability, Reciprocity
Zapier creates Dwolla trigger
blog.dwolla.com
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: One thing we do not have a shortage of in 2013 is web apps. Chances are, you or your business have active accounts in services like Gmail, Freshbooks, Basecamp, MailChimp, GitHub, Evernote, Facebook, Twitter, and much more. Wouldn’t it be nice if these apps talked to each other so that all your data was up-to-date across all of your accounts? Zapier is a web app automation service that helps you or your small business keep all of your services up-to-date through simple integrations, without having to shell out thousands of dollars on developer costs. Save hours of updating, copying and pasting by simply setting up an automated ‘Zap,’ or trigger, that will complete the task for you.... read the full post.
Tags: Interoperability, Payments, Reciprocity
Sush.io wants to offer offer Mint.com and IFTTT in a single app
thenextweb.com
on 04/25/2013
Excerpt: Sush. io is a collaborative management app that helps businesses organize their documents, workflow, and finances. Founded by CEO Thomas Guillaumin and CTO Fabien Charbit, the service deals with bookkeeping and paperwork by retrieving and sorting data (bills, bank statements, and documents). Sush. io brands itself as Mint. com & IFTTT in a single app hosted in the cloud. Going even further, the startup claims it “wants to automate the CFO position. ”
The co-founders point out that paper-based bills and invoices once used to be sent exclusively by snail mail, making it relatively easy to keep track of expenses.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Interoperability, Reciprocity
Zapier – integrate apps with drag and drop
blog.xero.com
on 02/04/2013
Excerpt: Zapier lets you make hundreds of different connections between different cloud services. Right now there are over 160 different services Zapier can talk to. Some of the popular ones being used with Xero are Wufoo, Google Docs, Paypal, Dropbox, Evernote, Zoho and Zendesk. It is easy to create your own connections without any knowledge of the code or APIs behind it. There are two main ways you might use Zapier and Xero:
If you are using a bunch of different cloud applications to run your business and want them to talk to each other but there is not always a direct connection – or maybe you want to customise exactly how that connection works – that is where Zapier comes in.... read the full post.
Tags: Accounting, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Automation, Integration, Interoperability, Reciprocity
Elastic.io Introduces new simplified interface
blog.elastic.io
on 02/01/2013
Excerpt: Learning is an essential part of our daily work. We learn from our customers, we learn from our work and we iterate quickly based on that. We heard from our early users that our initial UI could be complicated to understand, so we decided to simplify it. Here is how elastic. io dashboard looks like now:
Plain and simple. You might notice a button ‘Create new Recipe’ is gone as well as we renamed tasks into ‘flows’. Consequently adding new flow will be two-step, on the page you will define components of your flow, and the on the next page you will configure each individual component. We hope you’re going to love our new simplified UI. We would be happy to hear from you what do you think about it. Want to try it in action?... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Automation, Interoperability, Reciprocity
Temboo: APIs The Easy Way
developers.blog.box.com
on 01/24/2013
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Automation, Box, Document, Documents, Interoperability, Publishing, Reciprocity, Temboo
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
Cloud Computing Interoperability & The Amazon API Model
www.workhabit.com
on 12/19/2012
Excerpt: A recent discussion on CloudForum pertains to the nature of what interoperable cloud computing platform might be. It's been a real debate in the community for long time about what and inter operable cloud API actually looks like. From the market standpoint, it's been my experience that there are two basic types of customers: customers building data-driven systems that require an API, and customers looking for easy-to-use tools in value-added services. I'm sure there are others, and of course I'm leaving out providers, and sticking specifically to the types of customers that I've seen over the last year to year and a half in the cloud computing space, much of which has been around specific applications like Drupal, SOLR, etc.... read the full post.
Tags: Cloud Computing, Interoperability
APIs lead the way to better interoperability
www.computerweekly.com
on 12/19/2012
Excerpt: What do government intelligence spooks and YouTube have in common? Not much, on the face of it, except that they have both bought into the same fundamental principle of what we have come to call Web 2. 0: web-based application programming interfaces (APIs). The Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) is the part of the US intelligence community that sources battlefield intelligence for all three branches of the military. Things don't always move very quickly through the shadowy corridors of the US intelligence world, especially software development projects. That's a problem, because information has to move more rapidly - and there's more of it today then ever before.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Interoperability
Excerpt: SaaS automation is becoming a necessity for any business that is looking to maintain productivity gains from using cloud-based business tools, says our CEO, Christophe Primault. According to entrepreneur and successful SaaS founder Jason Lemkin, getting apps to talk to each other is “a huge next frontier”. With at least 100 new business cloud apps being added to the market each month, any business making use of Software-as-a-Service can quickly end up repeating data entry in multiple business tools. It is a headache that mid-size companies are currently facing, with small business on a path to growth also being hit.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Interoperability, Reciprocity
Zapier creates Dwolla trigger
blog.dwolla.com
on 04/29/2013
Excerpt: One thing we do not have a shortage of in 2013 is web apps. Chances are, you or your business have active accounts in services like Gmail, Freshbooks, Basecamp, MailChimp, GitHub, Evernote, Facebook, Twitter, and much more. Wouldn’t it be nice if these apps talked to each other so that all your data was up-to-date across all of your accounts? Zapier is a web app automation service that helps you or your small business keep all of your services up-to-date through simple integrations, without having to shell out thousands of dollars on developer costs. Save hours of updating, copying and pasting by simply setting up an automated ‘Zap,’ or trigger, that will complete the task for you.... read the full post.
Tags: Interoperability, Payments, Reciprocity
Sush.io wants to offer offer Mint.com and IFTTT in a single app
thenextweb.com
on 04/25/2013
Excerpt: Sush. io is a collaborative management app that helps businesses organize their documents, workflow, and finances. Founded by CEO Thomas Guillaumin and CTO Fabien Charbit, the service deals with bookkeeping and paperwork by retrieving and sorting data (bills, bank statements, and documents). Sush. io brands itself as Mint. com & IFTTT in a single app hosted in the cloud. Going even further, the startup claims it “wants to automate the CFO position. ”
The co-founders point out that paper-based bills and invoices once used to be sent exclusively by snail mail, making it relatively easy to keep track of expenses.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Interoperability, Reciprocity
Zapier – integrate apps with drag and drop
blog.xero.com
on 02/04/2013
Excerpt: Zapier lets you make hundreds of different connections between different cloud services. Right now there are over 160 different services Zapier can talk to. Some of the popular ones being used with Xero are Wufoo, Google Docs, Paypal, Dropbox, Evernote, Zoho and Zendesk. It is easy to create your own connections without any knowledge of the code or APIs behind it. There are two main ways you might use Zapier and Xero:
If you are using a bunch of different cloud applications to run your business and want them to talk to each other but there is not always a direct connection – or maybe you want to customise exactly how that connection works – that is where Zapier comes in.... read the full post.
Tags: Accounting, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Automation, Integration, Interoperability, Reciprocity
Elastic.io Introduces new simplified interface
blog.elastic.io
on 02/01/2013
Excerpt: Learning is an essential part of our daily work. We learn from our customers, we learn from our work and we iterate quickly based on that. We heard from our early users that our initial UI could be complicated to understand, so we decided to simplify it. Here is how elastic. io dashboard looks like now:
Plain and simple. You might notice a button ‘Create new Recipe’ is gone as well as we renamed tasks into ‘flows’. Consequently adding new flow will be two-step, on the page you will define components of your flow, and the on the next page you will configure each individual component. We hope you’re going to love our new simplified UI. We would be happy to hear from you what do you think about it. Want to try it in action?... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Automation, Interoperability, Reciprocity
Temboo: APIs The Easy Way
developers.blog.box.com
on 01/24/2013
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Automation, Box, Document, Documents, Interoperability, Publishing, Reciprocity, Temboo
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
Cloud Computing Interoperability & The Amazon API Model
www.workhabit.com
on 12/19/2012
Excerpt: A recent discussion on CloudForum pertains to the nature of what interoperable cloud computing platform might be. It's been a real debate in the community for long time about what and inter operable cloud API actually looks like. From the market standpoint, it's been my experience that there are two basic types of customers: customers building data-driven systems that require an API, and customers looking for easy-to-use tools in value-added services. I'm sure there are others, and of course I'm leaving out providers, and sticking specifically to the types of customers that I've seen over the last year to year and a half in the cloud computing space, much of which has been around specific applications like Drupal, SOLR, etc.... read the full post.
Tags: Cloud Computing, Interoperability
APIs lead the way to better interoperability
www.computerweekly.com
on 12/19/2012
Excerpt: What do government intelligence spooks and YouTube have in common? Not much, on the face of it, except that they have both bought into the same fundamental principle of what we have come to call Web 2. 0: web-based application programming interfaces (APIs). The Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) is the part of the US intelligence community that sources battlefield intelligence for all three branches of the military. Things don't always move very quickly through the shadowy corridors of the US intelligence world, especially software development projects. That's a problem, because information has to move more rapidly - and there's more of it today then ever before.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Interoperability
Excerpt: Sush. io is a collaborative management app that helps businesses organize their documents, workflow, and finances. Founded by CEO Thomas Guillaumin and CTO Fabien Charbit, the service deals with bookkeeping and paperwork by retrieving and sorting data (bills, bank statements, and documents). Sush. io brands itself as Mint. com & IFTTT in a single app hosted in the cloud. Going even further, the startup claims it “wants to automate the CFO position. ” The co-founders point out that paper-based bills and invoices once used to be sent exclusively by snail mail, making it relatively easy to keep track of expenses.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Interoperability, Reciprocity
Zapier – integrate apps with drag and drop
blog.xero.com
on 02/04/2013
Excerpt: Zapier lets you make hundreds of different connections between different cloud services. Right now there are over 160 different services Zapier can talk to. Some of the popular ones being used with Xero are Wufoo, Google Docs, Paypal, Dropbox, Evernote, Zoho and Zendesk. It is easy to create your own connections without any knowledge of the code or APIs behind it. There are two main ways you might use Zapier and Xero:
If you are using a bunch of different cloud applications to run your business and want them to talk to each other but there is not always a direct connection – or maybe you want to customise exactly how that connection works – that is where Zapier comes in.... read the full post.
Tags: Accounting, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Automation, Integration, Interoperability, Reciprocity
Elastic.io Introduces new simplified interface
blog.elastic.io
on 02/01/2013
Excerpt: Learning is an essential part of our daily work. We learn from our customers, we learn from our work and we iterate quickly based on that. We heard from our early users that our initial UI could be complicated to understand, so we decided to simplify it. Here is how elastic. io dashboard looks like now:
Plain and simple. You might notice a button ‘Create new Recipe’ is gone as well as we renamed tasks into ‘flows’. Consequently adding new flow will be two-step, on the page you will define components of your flow, and the on the next page you will configure each individual component. We hope you’re going to love our new simplified UI. We would be happy to hear from you what do you think about it. Want to try it in action?... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Automation, Interoperability, Reciprocity
Temboo: APIs The Easy Way
developers.blog.box.com
on 01/24/2013
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Automation, Box, Document, Documents, Interoperability, Publishing, Reciprocity, Temboo
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
Cloud Computing Interoperability & The Amazon API Model
www.workhabit.com
on 12/19/2012
Excerpt: A recent discussion on CloudForum pertains to the nature of what interoperable cloud computing platform might be. It's been a real debate in the community for long time about what and inter operable cloud API actually looks like. From the market standpoint, it's been my experience that there are two basic types of customers: customers building data-driven systems that require an API, and customers looking for easy-to-use tools in value-added services. I'm sure there are others, and of course I'm leaving out providers, and sticking specifically to the types of customers that I've seen over the last year to year and a half in the cloud computing space, much of which has been around specific applications like Drupal, SOLR, etc.... read the full post.
Tags: Cloud Computing, Interoperability
APIs lead the way to better interoperability
www.computerweekly.com
on 12/19/2012
Excerpt: What do government intelligence spooks and YouTube have in common? Not much, on the face of it, except that they have both bought into the same fundamental principle of what we have come to call Web 2. 0: web-based application programming interfaces (APIs). The Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) is the part of the US intelligence community that sources battlefield intelligence for all three branches of the military. Things don't always move very quickly through the shadowy corridors of the US intelligence world, especially software development projects. That's a problem, because information has to move more rapidly - and there's more of it today then ever before.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Interoperability
Excerpt: Learning is an essential part of our daily work. We learn from our customers, we learn from our work and we iterate quickly based on that. We heard from our early users that our initial UI could be complicated to understand, so we decided to simplify it. Here is how elastic. io dashboard looks like now: Plain and simple. You might notice a button ‘Create new Recipe’ is gone as well as we renamed tasks into ‘flows’. Consequently adding new flow will be two-step, on the page you will define components of your flow, and the on the next page you will configure each individual component. We hope you’re going to love our new simplified UI. We would be happy to hear from you what do you think about it. Want to try it in action?... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Automation, Interoperability, Reciprocity
Temboo: APIs The Easy Way
developers.blog.box.com
on 01/24/2013
Excerpt:... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Automation, Box, Document, Documents, Interoperability, Publishing, Reciprocity, Temboo
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
Cloud Computing Interoperability & The Amazon API Model
www.workhabit.com
on 12/19/2012
Excerpt: A recent discussion on CloudForum pertains to the nature of what interoperable cloud computing platform might be. It's been a real debate in the community for long time about what and inter operable cloud API actually looks like. From the market standpoint, it's been my experience that there are two basic types of customers: customers building data-driven systems that require an API, and customers looking for easy-to-use tools in value-added services. I'm sure there are others, and of course I'm leaving out providers, and sticking specifically to the types of customers that I've seen over the last year to year and a half in the cloud computing space, much of which has been around specific applications like Drupal, SOLR, etc.... read the full post.
Tags: Cloud Computing, Interoperability
APIs lead the way to better interoperability
www.computerweekly.com
on 12/19/2012
Excerpt: What do government intelligence spooks and YouTube have in common? Not much, on the face of it, except that they have both bought into the same fundamental principle of what we have come to call Web 2. 0: web-based application programming interfaces (APIs). The Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) is the part of the US intelligence community that sources battlefield intelligence for all three branches of the military. Things don't always move very quickly through the shadowy corridors of the US intelligence world, especially software development projects. That's a problem, because information has to move more rapidly - and there's more of it today then ever before.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Interoperability
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
Cloud Computing Interoperability & The Amazon API Model
www.workhabit.com
on 12/19/2012
Excerpt: A recent discussion on CloudForum pertains to the nature of what interoperable cloud computing platform might be. It's been a real debate in the community for long time about what and inter operable cloud API actually looks like. From the market standpoint, it's been my experience that there are two basic types of customers: customers building data-driven systems that require an API, and customers looking for easy-to-use tools in value-added services. I'm sure there are others, and of course I'm leaving out providers, and sticking specifically to the types of customers that I've seen over the last year to year and a half in the cloud computing space, much of which has been around specific applications like Drupal, SOLR, etc.... read the full post.
Tags: Cloud Computing, Interoperability
APIs lead the way to better interoperability
www.computerweekly.com
on 12/19/2012
Excerpt: What do government intelligence spooks and YouTube have in common? Not much, on the face of it, except that they have both bought into the same fundamental principle of what we have come to call Web 2. 0: web-based application programming interfaces (APIs). The Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) is the part of the US intelligence community that sources battlefield intelligence for all three branches of the military. Things don't always move very quickly through the shadowy corridors of the US intelligence world, especially software development projects. That's a problem, because information has to move more rapidly - and there's more of it today then ever before.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Interoperability
Excerpt: What do government intelligence spooks and YouTube have in common? Not much, on the face of it, except that they have both bought into the same fundamental principle of what we have come to call Web 2. 0: web-based application programming interfaces (APIs). The Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) is the part of the US intelligence community that sources battlefield intelligence for all three branches of the military. Things don't always move very quickly through the shadowy corridors of the US intelligence world, especially software development projects. That's a problem, because information has to move more rapidly - and there's more of it today then ever before.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Interoperability
