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APIs – what, how, whither, and writing

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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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Tidbits

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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. {

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Blackbaud buys Kintera

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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?

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Platforms break open!

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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. Kintera’s Connect has an API that can do some very important things. The API is SOAP.

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Platforms break open, part II

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Allan is right – the Kintera API is more comprehensive, and provides for more flexibility than the Convio API. Of course, the API was only one part of Convio’s initiative, so I do still think they come out ahead, a bit. But it may well be that for more complex integrations, the Kintera API will provide more power.

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Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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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The Best Donation Platforms for Nonprofits

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