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Ok, it seems like Monday is going to be the regular posting day for my weekly API.Report. No matter how hard I try to get done over the weekend, something always seems to get in the way. Regardless, I'm still going to do, as the process is more than worth it.
The Weekly API.Report represents the best of what I've read throughout the week, and is only what I personally felt should be showcased. Each news item comes with a link, and some thoughts I had after curating the piece of API related news. I'm trying to break down stories into as coherent buckets as I can, but it remains something that is ever changing for me, but ultimately I will settle on a clear definition for each of the research areas.
A couple of 3D printing footnotes for the week:
Accessibility is a critical aspect of the API space that needs more discussion:
- Accessibility APIs: A Key To Web Accessibility - This is an important aspect of the API conversation that isn't discussed, let alone APIs delivering a solution. I'm going to break this down, and try to incorporate accessibly into my research more.
Only one acquisitions I wanted to showcase this week:
Interesting usage of analytics in an acronym, and some money rais'n:
I will be tracking on more annotation related discussions in the future:
Some API aggregation action, mostly from Google:
Interesting API analysis piece, that was guest post on Twitter:
Handful of worthy API deployment things I was checking out this week:
Lots of API design opinions this week:
API discovery roundup, and more APIs.json love:
Couple of things falling in the API evangelism bucket:
API events news (ok, its almost @APIStrat time!):
Lots of interesting API integration nuggets:
A number of interesting posts, and additions to the world of API management:
My API monetization exploration:
Some other API News roundups:
The latest in API podcasts (cause there are so many):
The single API reciprocity story from the week:
- Zapier Integration - Zapier is something every API should have, an dwhen you successful integrate, make sure and tell the story about it, and showcase on your website.
An potential API simulation related story:
Some API visualizations gems from the week, do not miss the architecture of a data visualization post:
Some tips on application management from the big players:
Was going to put this under SDN, but I'm going to call it architecture:
My single art story:
An artificial intelligence piece that stuck around this week:
Interesting parody in the automobiles section this week:
Some banking thoughts:
I am going to begin putting blockchain stories in weekly roundup:
Random business stories this week:
Big, big week for the business of APIs:
From the careers section:
When it comes to city government and smart cities:
I like that cloud computing is much shorter this week:
Two Command Line Interface (CLI) pieces I felt like sharing:
Slwo containerization news week too:
One content delivery network story:
A very diverse data category this week:
One data center story to rule them all this week:
Lone deprecation remidner this week:
You don't find me referencing desktop implmentations often:
Diversity from the government:
Document API movement this week:
Some valuable education blips:
Two embeddable stories to highlight:
Energy stories are important:
So are environmental related news:
Beyond just API events, and movement with event mangement APIs:
The always active federal government sector:
Some very important movement in the financial space this week:
Just some regular government stories, that apply across teh board:
- Open Government Progress — The Untold Story - An optimistic view of all that has been going on with open data and APIs in government -- we are making progress. Change never looks like we think it will.
- DataSift CEO Comments on the UK Budget
- Structured Content in Government: How HHS and NCI Are Getting Started - More valuable resources out of digitalgov, at the intersection of government and healthcare, regarding structured content.
- Why Benchmarking Matters for Open Data - We have t have goals, and we have to measure.
- 18F and the Movement to Show Your Stats - An outside view of the federal data analytics from 18F, by the Smart Chicago Collective.
- Good Jobs First identifies government's favorite corporations - An interesting look at the coziness of corporate america, and government.
- Startup Offers Free Access to API Creator for Governments, Civic Hackers - Interesting move from InstantAPI, before they even move on public scene, they go for government.
- Any data will do: a review of Michael Barber’s “How to run a government” - Some more insight into how government works, and its relationship to "open" data. I'm thinking the UK is going to kick our ass on this front.
- Government action on open banking data could transform industry, says expert - Another take on the banking API standardization out of UK, with a lot of detail and perspective in context of our market as well.
- A Promising Future for Government-Driven Innovation - Some interesting thoughts on government, not sure I agree with everything, but interesting views.
Three hackathon stories pass inspection this week:
Lots to consider in the healthcare sector:
- Wireless Sensors Help Scientists Map Staph Spread Inside Hospital - Ok, now we are talking about real problems. Adding to the list of interesting IoT use cases.
- YC -Backed Akido Labs Provides A Standardized API Layer For Hospital App Developers - An interesting YC backed startup I'm tracking on.
- What the IoT can learn from the health care industry - Ok. I like it. I like applying lessons already learned to the IoT that is unfolding, and definitely could see some important lessons to be had from healthcare.
- Introducing Healthjibe: A New Balance Rewards API Integration - I always like showcasing the integrations out of Walgreens -- usually very practical apps.
- Introducing Mobile Health Library: A Plethora of Prescription API Integrations - More integrations from Walgreens, specifically serving the healthcare space--important integrations.
- Premera Blue Cross Says Data Breach Exposed Medical Data - More data breaches to track on, this one in healthcare.
- TriageLogic Announces Clinical Answering Service API - An interesting implementation to showcase in healthcare space.
- EHRs and wearables - their time has come? - Sell it, make the connection. Eventually, maybe it will be a thing.
- WEDI survey shows no growth in Blue Button adoption, only some uptake of PHRs - The platform needs an independent champion, just like green button.
- Healthcare Security/Privacy: What is MHD beyond XDS-on-FHIR? - I'm looking at FHIR some more, after learning about it at HHS, so you'll see more info on FHIR, security, privacy, etc.
- Senate looks at interoperability for electronic health records - More of that government regulation stuff I keep talking about coming down the pipes. You will see this in healthcare, education, IoT, and more.
Interesting home discussions, and companies:
Google leading with HTTP:
I smell huge opportunity for change in the insurance space:
- Insurance: Risk and reward - Interesting peek into the potential of APIs in the insurance industry. This is an area I'd like to do a proper white paper, but lacking the bandwidth at moment.
Yay! We made it to the Internet of Things section again:
- Internet of Things rules by US and UK authorities - More of that regulation I'm talking about that we will see more of in IoT and many other industries.
- Next frontier for 'Internet of Things': Babies - Yes babies! Babies! connect our babies to the Internet!!!
- Wireless Sensors Help Scientists Map Staph Spread Inside Hospital - Ok, now we are talking about real problems. Adding to the list of interesting IoT use cases.
- Internet of Things Policies Required By @Vormetric - A look into policies that are emerging.
- MobileEnterpriseStrategies.com: IoT Sensors Extend Our Physical Senses Beyond Our Physical Reach - Selling of the enterprise on sensors. I'm tracking on all the ways the enterprise are being courted, not just IoT.
- What the IoT can learn from the health care industry - Ok. I like it. I like applying lessons already learned to the IoT that is unfolding, and definitely could see some important lessons to be had from healthcare.
- The top 20 Internet of Things companies right now - Keep track of all IoT lists, so I can process as I have time.
- Diebold, Eagle Eye Networks Team Up To Advance Cloud-based Video Services - Just keeping track on the players, who is doing what, and who is partnering to dominate.
- How Brands and Publishers Are Thinking About Beacons - Some stories about beacons on the retail front.
- Now, use your eye as a key - Ummm...sure. Just keeping track of the interesting and scary tech.
- Smart cities will house 9.7 billion IoT devices by 2020: Gartner - I do not buy into all the numbers, and analysts, but I do track on them to use as a barometer for where things might possibly be going.
- Deconstructing IoT Mode Conditions - Good IoT stories lately out of Temboo. They have pivoted, and are doing pretty well with an IoT focus.
- 10 Internet of Things start-ups to watch for the future - Another IoT list to process.
- Adding Intelligence to IIoT in Factories and Utilities - I am thinking that I will have to slice of an industrial research area, off the main IoT trunk.
- The Intelligent Forklift in the Age of the Industrial Internet of Things - More industrial IoT being peddled.
- Samsung Business launched to tap into IoT, enterprise market - Everyone doing IoT. Just keeping track of the commitments.
One investment story that floated up on radar:
Two JavaScript nuggets from the week:
Two interesting legal stories I found this week:
Important story about libraries:
A single location story:
Had to highlight Google's move into logging:
I don't always bite on the machine learning stories, but device centric seems valuable:
Soe mapping stories:
Media stories from the cloud:
A basic messaging story:
The microservices stories keep getting better in my opinion:
Three mobile stories to keep you happy:
Some OAuth tales:
Beyond just data and into the realm of open data:
Open Source discussions:
Lone patents story:
Payments discussions:
My new bucket for tracking what I consider to be Platform Development Kits (PDK):
Interesting policing, surveillance, and data story:
Some of the darker areas around the politics of APIs:
Lots of privacy discussions:
I'm calling this area protection for now:
A single quantified self thought:
One interesting rate limits story from the week:
Don't get many real estate API stories:
A new real-time addition:
- Netty: Home - A new event-driven, real-time platform I added to my list of tooling. I'll spend more time learning about what they are up to as I can.
The ever growing regulation bucket:
Case studies in the restaurant space:
The somewhat interesting retail front:
The scraping goings on:
Three SDK entries to consider:
Security. Security. Security.
- Schneier on Security: New Paper on Digital Intelligence - A new security paper that I'm reviewing.
- Push notifications get end-to-end encryption with Kwikdesk’s CryptoShift - Tracking on mostly because its end to end encryption for push notifications, which is something that doesn't get as much love as email, sms and other messaging formats.
- Reminder to migrate to OAuth 2.0 or OpenID Connect - Friendly reminders are important. An important look at where the Google architecture train is headed.
- New Security Mindset: Focus On The Interior - This is how we are going to deal with security in future, by thinking out of box -- not saying this is it, but definitely gotta think big as we discuss.
- 1 billion pieces of Personally Identifiable Information leaked in 2014 - I kind of suspect it is going to get larger year by year.
- Can Your Home Be Hacked? - Yes it can. Yes it can
- How to harden your enterprise APIs - Hard talk on security, and how to tighten down the enterprise hatches.
- Mandrill warns attack may have exposed some data about email - Another security breach to track on.
- Migrating APIs to HTTPS - An important move by the federal government, with guidance for other federal agencies.
- The HTTPS-Only Standard - Some background on the HTTPS-Only stance.
- Premera Blue Cross Says Data Breach Exposed Medical Data - More data breaches to track on, this one in healthcare.
- For Public Comment: the HTTPS-Only Standard
- Healthcare Security/Privacy: What is MHD beyond XDS-on-FHIR? - I'm looking at FHIR some more, after learning about it at HHS, so you'll see more info on FHIR, security, privacy, etc.
- Increasing application security with mobile phone authentication - Just tracking on as part of the different approaches to secure apps, so I can do roundups from time to time.
- Iron.io Releases Enhanced Security Package – IP Whitelisting, VPN, and VPC Support - Nice addition to an already robust stack.
Sensors are everywhere:
Single Page Applications related talk:
Some patterns from the world of smart watches:
AI and the social good:
Growing number of of Software Defined Networking (SDN) news:
Also some software defined storage news as well:
Oh yeah, sports:
More spreadsheets services:
- SpreadCloud - An interesting addition to my spreadsheet stack. They found me after I wrote a story last week.
State government can rock it too:
More telephony from Twilio:
A single translation post:
Essential transparency:
Two transportation stories:
Wearables keep dominating the conversation:
- From Quantified Self to Wearables — Why? · - My thoughts on wearable space, which I really don't fully jive with.
- A decade in, the “Quantified Self” is still more hope than reality - Yeah, it just seems like it is more of a market, than an actual necessity for end-users.
- Will This Wearable Device Kill the Computer Mouse? - Probably not, but then again I'm not sure what will. It seems voice or eye will, but maybe its all Minority Report style, because that is what we can envision.
- EHRs and wearables - their time has come? - Sell it, make the connection. Eventually, maybe it will be a thing.
- Wearable data objects that represent air pollution - Ok, now we are talking a little more interesting application, something that might make me think wearables is not all dumb.
A single weather cell:
More container, but also a worker entry:
That concludes my report on what I read last week across the API space. I'm still working on pulling together a summary e-newsletter version, allowing people to get an executive summary of what I thought was important from the week--I am hoping it will be available next week. I'm also going to auto-generate some visualizations, and summary counts for each week. I'd like to see a tag cloud, and overall counts to help me understand the scope of news I cover each week.
If you know of something I missed, feel free to email or tweet at me, and make sure I know about your company, and have a link to your blog RSS. If you don't tell the story and share, the world will never know it happened.
It is a good time to be tracking on the API space--lots going on!