Import*io is data, simply. It's the single place for all your data needs: A data exchange connecting data suppliers with data users, large and small. Whether you need data for an app, or you're looking for data to perform an analysis or conduct research, import*io is a single API for all your data sources.
The company announced six new APIs to improve the Microsoft Graph, including one that allows developers to see when a group of users is available for a meeting.
The Observatory code is open source, with its API and command-line tools available for administrators who want to perform large number of websites scan internally and/or periodically.
"Develop the next generation of innovative apps
IDOL OnDemand delivers a rich set of web service APIs to enable developers to create ground-breaking apps that tap into human information."
"Faast: The best iOS7 real time content reader has arrived
Faast is a iOS7 optimized application for your iOS devices. It instantly delivers push notifications from RSS feeds, Twitter, Facebook, Emails. It also includes a simple API."
"There's been a lot of discussion lately about whether or not the HTML5 tag is going to replace Flash Player for video distribution on the web. We've been excited about the HTML5 effort and tag for quite a while now, and most YouTube videos can now be played via our HTML5 player. This work has shown us that, while the tag is a big step forward for open standards, the Adobe Flash Platform will continue to play a critical role in video distribution."
The Archivist is a service that uses the Twitter Search API to find and archive tweets. The Archivist does not have access to the Twitter "firehose" (ie., all the tweets ever on a subject). As such, the tweets archived by The Archivist are not guaranteed to represent a complete historical record of a given term or search. Read the FAQ to learn more about The Archivist.
Actually, I stumbled upon this when I decided to try out Office 2010 beta. I haven't found any official documentation about how to connect to Windows Live SkyDrive with WebDAV (or any API), so I'm not sure how well supported this will be in the future. If you find any word about this from Microsoft, please let me know in the comments. The good news is that it works. The bad news is that it is very slow, but being 25 GB for free I guess you get what you pay for speed-wise (understandably).
As Twitter sets to make its vast pool of data available for third parties and its API made accessible to developers, also working on Analytical products for advertisers, what place does users privacy occupy in the present scheme of things?