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

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 way to expose…

The Programmable Web continues to grow — 900+ APIs

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

Fragility of Services on the Web

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 services on the…

The Programmable Web – 2800 Mashups

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 was an even…

Are you a RESTafarian?

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 new to REST,…