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.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 26, 2009

Join us 19-20 September 2009 and be part of this extraordinary event. JustGivings new API (available for the first time at this event). MissionFish’s cash giving APIs available for the first time in the UK. MissionFish’s cash giving APIs available for the first time in the UK. PayPals new Beta Adaptive Payments API’s.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Part Vb:APIs October 20, 2006 This morning, I sat in on the " Great Open API Debate " hosted by NTEN. But I’m going to highlight what interested me most, and talk a little bit about the zen of APIs. Also, basically, what made an API "open" was that it was free to use, and well documented.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

The Connect platform is a set of APIs, starting with the contact and payment sets of entities, that will allow access (via SOAP 1.1) The APIs will be without cost. A couple of annoyances: the documentation for the APIs aren’t up yet, and the sample code they are going to publish is in C# and Java!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

The documentation is a bit lacking, and it’s clear that it’s a very new project. There are an increasing number of third party apps that can use it (it supports the Twitter API.) I imagine, too, because it’s based on an open source platform, developers will begin to code in data portability (or have they already?)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

But it is annoying when something is trumpeted as open source but hasn’t been architected or documented in a way that would allow others to make practical use of the code). Other times it is more important to have an open API or an app that is properly designed for plug-ins or extensions.

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