A-Commerce: 10 Ways APIs will change IT Operations

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US – March 1, 2010 – You've probably heard that Twitter's API has been the primary driver for the fast growth and rapid morphing of Twitter's service. You may know that eBay and Salesforce.com get over 60% of their usage via APIs. And in the last couple of months, you may have heard people at your company in marketing, business development, or software engineering talking about your own API. If not, you will soon.

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Infoworld: How to use open APIs for business growth

By Savio Rodrigues

US – February 26, 2010 – Open APIs are increasingly being exposed, especially for mobile and cloud apps, but they require appropriate monitoring and management. When you think "open source," you probaby think applications. But maybe you should also be thinking about APIs. In a recent conversation with Sonoa Systems' Sam Ramji -- who in a previous life was a central figure in Microsoft's open source strategy team -- Ramji described a shift in his work from "open source to open cloud." It's a shift that may -- and should -- be coming soon to your work as well.

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CloudAve: Apigee Gains Traction And Adds New Security Features

By Krishnan Subramanian

US – February 25, 2010 – We live in an era where we consume computing through API and socialize through mashups. Our wide ranging computing needs from mobile apps to social networks to SaaS, brings API to the forefront of our computing senses. To cater to the needs of this API generation, Santa Clara based Sonoa Systems has already launched a service called Apigee which is still in private beta. Apigee is a freemium, self service, API management tools for Web APIs.

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