open apis

On the Zend Developer Zone there's a recent post looking at using the Plurk API in a PHP application (by Vikram Vaswani). Plurk is a micro-blogging service similar to Twitter.

O'Reilly Radar: "But unlike many news organizations, whose primary concern may be monetizing their content, National Public Radio is interested in turning it into a resource for people to use in new and novel ways as well."

In a major shift in its business model, Microsoft today said it is placing a significant emphasis on standardization and interoperability, saying it will share its APIs, release extensive documentation of its protocols, and is promising not to sue open source developers who use Microsoft's patented protocols for non-commercial implementations.