| 72 Medical APIs: Avvo, National Library of Medicine and NHS - Wed, 16 May 2012 15:00:15 +0000 |
 Our API directory now includes 72 medical APIs. The newest is the pVerify API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Avvo API. We list 2 Avvo mashups. Below you'll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of medical APIs. |
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| Gumroad Aims To Make Selling Items as Simple as Sharing Them - Tue, 15 May 2012 20:53:18 +0000 |
 Ever tried to sell something on the Internet and hoped that the process was simpler than what it currently is? What if selling an item on the Internet was as simple as sharing the item for sale with your friends on the social web? Gumroad, a San Francisco based startup has adopted that philosophy and wants to take the pain out of selling an item on the web and it also provides the Gumroad API for its core features. |
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| Why REST Keeps Me Up At Night - Tue, 15 May 2012 19:34:53 +0000 |
 With respect to Web APIs, the industry has clearly and emphatically landed on REST as the standard way to implement these services. And for good reason... REST, which is generally implemented as a one-size-fits-all solution, is an excellent choice for a most companies who wish to expose their content to third parties, mobile app developers, partners, internal teams, etc. There are many tomes about what REST is and how best to implement it, so I won’t go into detail here. But if I were to sum up the value proposition to these companies of the traditional REST solution, I would describe it as: |
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