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This morning, Google began rolling out a major change to its core search engine that intertwines results from Google+ (and Picasa) with the ‘normal’ algorithmically-generated results we’ve come to expect. There have been plenty of critiques of the news, including John Battelle’s discussion on how this isn’t actually integrating ‘Your World’, as Google calls it, but rather just its own social network. And now there’s another critic that’s coming out swinging: Twitter. Earlier today the company’s General Counsel Alex Macgillivray, who was a top attorney at Google prior to making the jump to Twitter, called it “A bad day for the Internet”, and stated that some of his former colleagues were likely upset by the decision to “warp” Google’s results. And now Twitter itself has followed up with a statement denouncing the feature — and rather than relying on the wishy-washy PR speak big companies are fond of, it’s very direct. Here’s the full statement:
Twitter Really, Really Hates Google’s New Google+ Integration | TechCrunch
VISION Cloud - Amazon S3: Cloud Storage Almost Doubled In Less Than One Year
The growth rate and scale of the storage offering by Amazon are still growing at a steep rate. There are now up to 370.000 requests per second in peaks. At Royal Pingdom a rough calculation of how growth would look in another year (at a growth rate of 155%) points to even larger scales in the next 12 to 24 month.
Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) plays host to some of the most important services we use today. Dropbox, Ubuntu and popular game Minecraft all make use of Amazon’s web service to serve and host files at a cost that can be significantly lower than deploying a company’s own servers. Focusing solely on Dropbox , an infinitely useful web-based file hosting service that has 4 million users , Amazon’s S3 service facilitates the download and upload of millions of individual files – which is a small drop in the ocean when compared to the 262 billion other objects stored on the US retailers’ server infrastructure. Posting to the Amazon Web Services Blog Jeff Barr, Senior Manager of Cloud Computing Solutions at Amazon details just how quickly Amazon’s S3 service continues to grow. In just one year, Amazon S3 added 160 billion objects to its Cloud servers, more than doubling in size in that period.
Amazon S3 Now Stores More Than 262 Billion Objects In Its Cloud - The Next Web
Mashape, The Etsy Of Cloud Services, Goes Beta; Lets You Monetize Your APIs In A Click | TechCrunch
Mashape has a somewhat unusual backstory: The Italian startup spent two years looking for funding in its home country, only to be rebuffed at every turn. So, in 2009, it moved operations to Silicon Valley. The team found funding in less than three weeks.Mashape Turns Down Acquisition Offers; Raises Seed Round From Big Name Investors | TechCrunch
APIs are hot. Twitter attracts 15 billion API calls per day, and Saleforce.com receives 50 percent of its traffic through its API, to site a few big name examples. So here’s a simple thought: If everyone and their mother is beginning to take advantage of APIs, why not create a marketplace where developers can easily discover, distribute, and consume all things API? This was the thinking employed by a young Italian startup (transplanted to San Francisco) named Mashape . As we wrote in our original profile of the startup in June , simply put: Mashape wants to be a little bit Etsy, a little bit Github by offering a unified, all-in-one marketplace where users can find, sell, distribute, and hack on APIs.
We write a lot about the growth in the number of APIs on ProgrammableWeb. But how about usage? Some APIs see so many requests that they measure in billions. We refer to these companies as the API Billionaires Club.
Who Belongs to the API Billionaires Club?
Klout 's API served over 2 billion API calls in June, according to the company blog . Klout launched its API before it even launched its website. But this number pales in comparison to Twitter's 15 billion calls per day . In fact, Twitter serves more API calls per day than both Google (5 billion per day) and Facebook (also 5 billion per day) combined.
Twitter Serves More API Calls Than Facebook and Google Combined [Infographic]
list of the 10 most important API for SaaS businesses
Although there is no formal ranking system to measure the popularity of an API the following metrics should be considered : # call, # mashups, # developers , # apps using the API Combining two different sources from the ProgrammableWeb website and a presentation from John Musser we have established a short list of 10 important APIs (some numbers can be a bit outdated and likely to be even higher): APIs are the glue of SaaS . They are core to the strategy of successful B2B SaaS companies such as Salesforce.com, ExactTarget, Box.net or Docusign. Check these vendors that have mentioned the availability of an Open API in their in GetApp.com listing. There is no doubt that the key for an API to become popular is its underlying service .