Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 20, 2011
There’s a lot happening with Social Actions right now but one bit of news is really exciting, and needs to be highlighted: some incredibly important technical enhancements have recently been made to the Social Actions API. Let’s start at the beginning: What is Social Actions and where does the API come in? was difficult.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 9, 2006
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology APIs – what, how, whither, and writing November 9, 2006 I’ve been asked by NTEN to write a whitepaper on APIs, following their Open API debate. That’s a good thing.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MAY 19, 2008
Speaking of the responses of the old guard, eTapestry, which was bought by Blackbaud last year, is opening up it’s API this week. Allan, in his inimitable way, points out how bad the API is. So is it good news, when companies open APIs that don’t make it easy to really use? Time will tell. { Time will tell. {
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 15, 2007
October 15, 2007 If you are new to this site, you might want to read more , and subscribe to my feed. One of the wonderful things that has happened since I wrote the Open API whitepaper way back in January, is that finally, vendors are realizing how important openness really is, and are beginning to implement things in a big way.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 18, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open, part II October 18, 2007 The dust is settling. Allan is right – the Kintera API is more comprehensive, and provides for more flexibility than the Convio API.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MAY 29, 2008
In Kintera, Blackbaud certainly got it’s hands on a platform with pretty good open APIs (Allan Benamer argues they are better than Convio’s.) Blackbaud’s other recent acquisition, eTapestry, did open up their APIs recently, although they leave much to be desired. Will they continue in that direction?
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 17, 2006
for geeks is APIs. Like the freedom that RSS gives to end users in terms of getting the data that you want in your hands, to read when and how you want it, APIs give programmers (and, at times, end users) the freedom to get data from Web 2.0 One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups.
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