Twitter and Facebook API Changes Don't Appear To Upset Developers. If you’re interested in building an application or a new service these days, chances are that you’re going to integrate the two largest social networks out there: Twitter and Facebook.
For developers, the clearest (and possibly the easiest) way to make sure data is easily interchanged would be to use an API feed. Over the past couple of years, both services have announced some major changes to their API and this has definitely affected the way people are developing apps. But do these development changes actually affect the social sentiment of the community? Altimeter Group principal analyst Brian Solis, along with Netbase and the Pivot conference, took a look and found that as each API change happens, discontent is decreasing. So what exactly do developers have to complain about when it comes to the Twitter and Facebook APIs? How third party developers are busy creating profit using Pinterest. FREE Face Recognition API, Face Recognition Software Apps for the masses – face.com. API: Three Letters That Change Life, the Universe and Even Detroit. Sam Ramji was the head of open source software at Microsoft.
But now he has a new crusade. Photo: Wired.com/Ariel Zambelich Sam Ramji met AT&T chief technology officer John Donovan on a speed date — or at least the tech world equivalent of a speed date. In 2009, some big-name venture capitalists arranged for lightning-fast meetings between AT&T’s top brass and the brains behind various Silicon Valley startups, including Ramji’s new venture: Apigee, a company that builds and operates APIs. That’s tech-world speak for the software that lets things like Facebook, Google and Twitter talk to all those applications on your iPhone.