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Pokémon Go API Fiasco Exemplifies Mobile API Security Concerns It seems as though just about everyone lately is either playing or talking about the runaway phenomenon that is Pokémon Go. Pokémon Go may be one of the fastest, if not the fastest, growing mobile games the world has ever seen. This location-based augmented reality game for iOS and Android has already reached over 100 million downloads

Wercker, a Docker-based Continuous Delivery Platform startup, has announced the release of a public beta preview version of the Wercker API. The Wercker API provides access to Wercker platform information, including Builds, deploys and applications. Wercker was part of the 2012 startup incubator program Rockstart Accelerator, based in Amsterdam. Wercker received seed funding, which was used to sca

Linkify Helps Mobile App Developers Monetize Without Banner Ads Japanese start-up Linkify has bypassed an API release and gone straight to an SDK launch of their latest mobile developer tools. Linkify aims to provide monetization opportunities by using keyword and graphics analysis to add paid links directly into content on mobile Web sites and app pages. Cofounder and CTO Ikuya Yamada spoke with

Web APIs typically use REST style for communication while moving away from more traditional SOAP web services. Our ProgrammableWeb service directory currently lists around 1500 services which are using REST, and around 360 using SOAP. Why is REST becoming so popular and what are the common mistakes in the REST API design? Graphic from Open APIs: a State of the Market REST API, or to be more precis

Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS): Give me Liberty or give me... Convenience? This guest post comes from Miko Matsumura, Senior Vice President of Platform Marketing and Developer Relations for Kii Corporation. Miko main role at Kii is evangelizing the Kii Cloud Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS). What’s good about MBaaS?MBaaS provides mobile developers with LIBERTY and CONVENIENCE. LIBERTY in t

We try to stay positive at ProgrammableWeb. We've talked a lot about the keys to a great API, but not so much about what some of the lesser APIs do. And, with a directory of over 6,000 APIs, you'd better believe we've seen some worst practices. Poor Error HandlingREST APIs that ignore HTTP rulesExposing your raw underlying data modelSecurity complexityUnexpected and undocumented releasesPoor devel

Having a Web API is an essential part of doing business online today. We wanted to help get you started. So we took some time to pull together a list of the RESTful or RESTish (however you choose to view it) API frameworks, that can help you deploy your API faster. Today we are going to take a look at seven RESTful API frameworks for PHP: Dave - DAVE is a minimalist, multi-node, transactional API

Google Maps Cost: How Many Developers Will Have to Pay? After silently listing prices in its FAQ for a few months, Google has announced plans to charge for high usage of its Google Maps API. The company is making clear policies that have been present for some time. Google Maps went enterprise in 2006 when its Premier Maps was released. Many of the largest sites using Google Maps are already paying

Last week ProgrammableWeb crossed one of its biggest milestones thus far when we added the 1,000th Web Service API to our API directory. This is a long way from the 32 APIs we started with back in the summer of 2005. Back then even the phrase "web mashup" was only a few months old. And the change is not just in quantity of APIs, but in quality, variety, rate of growth, and most of all, impact. Ove