Category Archives: Web Services

The Programmable Web – 1,000 Web APIs (Nov 2008)

Posted on November 10, 2008 by ceo | Viewed 977 times

The Programmable Web reports that as of Nov 2008 it has 1,000 Web APIs on its directory. You can see the distribution below (which looks pretty balanced all around) with Mapping APIs at the top: And what is the preferred … Continue reading →

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The Programmable Web continues to grow — 900+ APIs

Posted on August 29, 2008 by ceo | Viewed 1116 times

The ProgrammableWeb web API directory now has 900+ open web service APIs, see the API Dashboard. ceo

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Fragility of Services on the Web

Posted on July 21, 2008 by ceo | Viewed 595 times, 1 so far today

A lot of noise recently, triggered by the recent S3 Outage, on the fragility of Web Services… And guess what? This is (and will continue to be) a recurring and expected theme on the highly interdependent world of Mashups and … Continue reading →

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The Programmable Web – 2800 Mashups

Posted on February 28, 2008 by ceo | Viewed 569 times

The beautify of services on the web — Mashups. As of today, there are 2800 registered Mashups (The Programmable Web): Every day of the year we get new mashups get added to our directory and as of yesterday the total … Continue reading →

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Are you a RESTafarian?

Posted on January 10, 2006 by ceo | Viewed 746 times

Are you? Hey, there is nothing wrong with being one and enjoying life… REST is very simple to use, more and more services on the web are getting exposed using REST, and recently the Restlet API was introduced. For those … Continue reading →

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