eBay announced the launch of a new services for sellers and developers. The services expand the reach for sellers with a new platform, new APIs and a new way for to get in front of eBay sellers.
The new platform initiatives are significant in that they enable developers even more opportunities to make more money with eBay. The program gives developers access to all the data that eBay’s existing online app for medium- and large-scale retailers. EBay estimates that their developer program currently has 70,000 members who have created approximately 12,000 live applications.
“We’re announcing opening More»

Labels: API, Community Marketing, developers, eBay, online services

The answer is simple. First, create a Facebook application; next, all you need is one person to like it, then their friends find out and it spreads and soon you will be making $500,000 a month. What’s the catch? It could you up to 2 week to start making $500,000 a month. That is what Chamath Palihapitiya, the company’s vice president of marketing told attendees at a conference two weeks ago. He went on to disclose that about 33 percent of Facebook application developers reported profits of up to $500,000 a month. At last count there were 200,000 More»

Labels: applications, developers, Facebook, Online Advertising

Venture capitalists are often contemplating the most intriguing questions in the technology community, and this post from Paul Graham is a wonderful essay speculating on how programmers react to their environment.
Graham is a VC involved with Y Combinator (not to be confused with Yahoo’s startup division). Y Combinator is a very interesting early funding structure for new companies that combines a modest level of financial support with a fairly good dose of team building and advice from experts. The financial support is usually $5000 + 5000 x the number of founders involved, so More»

Labels: developers, programmers, sociology, startups, technology, VC, venture capital

Over the next few days we will be live blogging some of the action here at Mashup Camp 6 in Mountain View at the Computer Science Museum.
The first two of four days are ¨Mashup University¨ where companies will introduce their APIs and mashup enabling technologies. Then, at the ¨Mashup Camp¨ of the final two days we will review dozens of new companies that are using mashups in their projects and vote for the top mashup.
This morning Raymond Yee of UC Berkeley is introducing some of the basic concepts, with more complex stuff More»

Labels: API, developers, mashup camp, mashups

Yahoo has just announced an expansion of what it calls the Yahoo Search “Open Ecosystem”.
Yahoo has been a leader for some time in the Web 2.0 space with several applications and innovations such as photo site Flickr and adoption of OpenID. Recently Yahoo opened up their search application for more customization by developers.
Today’s announcement marks a stronger level of committment to new standards that will support the growth and development of the semantic web through the adoption of microformats - basically formats that help standardize the way applications can interact with data. More»

Labels: developers, microformats, Open Source, openid, opensocial, Yahoo

YouTube is opening up even more to the online community with a suite of APIs (application programming interfaces) that will allow websites, mobile devices, and more powerfully integrate YouTube content and capabilities.
Here are more details from Christine at the YouTube developer blog
Here is the YouTube announcement
For some time websites have been able to embed YouTube videos using a standard player, butfrom YouTube’s Press release this morning we learn that they have added added the following new API services for external developers:
*Upload videos and video responses to YouTube* Add/Edit user and video metadata (titles, descriptions, ratings, More»

Labels: API, developers, Youtube