APIs

Facebook opening up their APIs is just the first volley in an on-going war of open vs closed.

Building a better mouse trap | FactoryCity 2006

Lightroom, Aperture, Picasa, iPhoto, ACDSee … the list that’s supported either by us or by 3rd party plugins via APIs is pretty extensive, and that’s just the desktop software.

Commitment anxiety « Squash 2008

In effect, this aspect of its API offering — if it comes to fruition on any kind of sustained level — could create a whole new source of revenue for the company, by using other content providers and service providers as a distribution method Jeff Jarvis calls APIs “the future of content distribution”.

The Guardian ups the ante on APIs » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

If you want to write desktop software now you do it on Microsoft's terms, calling their APIs and working around their buggy OS.

The Other Road Ahead 2001

Nonetheless, Simpkins says, the APIs are the same ones that will show up in the final build, meaning developers can prep their applications to work, then get them on their way to go through Microsoft's certification process ahead of Mango's release in the fall.

CNET News.com 2011

GroupMe's group messaging and calling service was built with Twilio's software tools known as APIs for application programming interface.

Forbes.com: News Elizabeth Woyke 2011

Any vendor in the platform business knows that their primary product is programming interfaces-the so-called APIs that developers depend upon in order to deliver applications.

CircleID Alec Saunders 2010

Using Lua as the glue between pieces of code in the game wouldn't directly call their APIs so it would pass 3.3.1.

Daring Fireball John Gruber 2010

As a lot of the students liked the idea of APIs like GeoPlanet and Placemaker but had a hard time getting their head around them I thought it a good idea to build a small JavaScript library that does the job for them.

nextwebgen.com Chris Heilmann 2010

This aspect is a bit trickier than the others, and unfortunately I haven't seen it used in a lot of other APIs, which is a shame, IMHO.

Planet Python 2010