Jugnoo is all about helping to grow your business using all the social media platforms your potential customers are likely to use. To do that, those of us who help bring you tools like Jugnoo’s Social Dashboard and our social media analytics tools are reliant on the interfaces (or APIs) that social networks like Twitter and Facebook provide to other software developers. But these platforms also have some restrictions. Even with the changes I’ve just outlined, Twitter will still have arguably the most comprehensive API among the major social networks. MORE >>

Today, after a week's worth of frustrations , following a change to Twitter's back end which stripped required headers from emails available to developers, Topify said they are going to be shutting down the service, rather than chasing after Twitter's continued meandering API roadmap. In an email sent to all registered users, saying the service would be discontinued on August 5th, Arik wrote that the company had decommissioned "X-Twitter headers", pushing developers instead to the Streaming API. Topify API TwitterAn unhappy notice from an unhappy developer. MORE >>

Once you have these two pieces of information you can start to ensure your brand is writing content, across your platforms, that will engage with your audience. Conferences and events Social media tools and technology data social media analytics SocialFlow SXSW Twitter API Twitter measurementTweet At SXSW 2012 Gilad Lotan from SocialFlow spoke about the “ math that matters ”. Gilad’s R&D team spend a huge amount of time looking at data provided by the Twitter firehose and the bit.ly The team at SocialFlow applied this analysis to their own tweets. The Tweet This! MORE >>

The problem is there is no API method that currently allows Facebook developers to send “likes&# to URLs or Pages on Facebook. The likes, via Facebook’s Graph API also go up with that click. I’m assuming Quora is on a special whitelist for Facebook to be able to auto-like posts via Facebook’s API, something most developers on Facebook Platform aren’t allowed to do. Facebook Geeky Technology Application programming interface facebook api like button like button api Quora MORE >>

Episode 3 focusses on monetizing APIs and looking at revenue streams from widgets. API Widget Economy: Social Media Business Ep.003 from Laurel Papworth on Vimeo. Ebay API. eBay offers solution.ebay.com – APIs and widgets that emplower people to do distributed sales and monetize goods and services. In November 2000 they opened up the API and by 2006 had 5 billion API calls a month. 60,000 developers in 2005 creating apps using the APIs and forming an ecosystem of development. Amazon API. Etsy API. Web 3.0 Previous Shows. MORE >>