Assumed and accepted that APIs are key to succeed in the App and Mobile Internet, we walk you through the 4 building blocks for designing your API Business:


1.API Business Strategy
2.API Typology
3.API Business Model
4.API Delivery

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–October 4, 2011– 3scale (http://www.3scale.net), the innovative provider of plug and play Cloud API management infrastructure, today launched three new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) designed to unleash powerful enterprise capabilities for API billing, access and reporting. The three collections include a user management API for portals and integration with CRM services, a billing API, and an analytics API for push and pull data analysis.

• Stats & Reporting API: enables 3scale customers to directly access the information, data and statistics related to the usage of their API with different levels of granularity . This API eliminates the need to access the Admin dashboard of 3scale API Management Platform.
  Moreover, 3scale customers can combine data coming from other IT systems, such as CDN, CRM or ERP systems with the information extracted from the 3scale Stats API. This flexible functionality allows customers to create their own views/representation of these analyses.

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• Billing API: 3scale’s customers can access the raw billing information for each of their API user for integration into existing backend billing systems and 3rd party software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. At the end of each month 3scale generates invoices for each paying customer of an API based on the pricing rules and mechanism defined by the provider of the API.

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• Account management API: this API enables 3cale customers to manage their database of API users from “outside” 3scale Admin dashboard for integration into their existing systems. For example, a companies with their own signup mechanisms can manage user Accounts, Keys, Rate limits and service parameters seamlessly from existing customer facing dashboards.

• Developer and Partner Portal
• Access and User Management
• Traffic & Policies Management
• Billing & Payment
• Analytics & Reporting
• Total Scalability: Unlimited Traffic on your API
• Premium SLA with Guaranteed Uptime and Automatic Failover
• Premium Customer Support – 24/7 for Emergencies
• High Availability Infrastructure with 24/7 Monitoring and Automatic Failover
• Developer outreach

With 35 million professional members, Viadeo is one of the world’s largest professional social networking platforms. Founded in 2004, Viadeo’s network spans five continents including Asia, where membership is expanding rapidly in emerging economies such as China (Tianji.com) and India (ApnaCircle.com).

Viadeo currently has offices in Paris, London, San Francisco, Beijing, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Dakar, New Delhi and Mexico City. Headquartered in Paris, Viadeo has 260 employees.

The interconnection of platforms is at the heart of the next generation of social networks. Innovative developers are shaping the future of the social web by creating web applications that connect services together.

Therefore, Viadeo has recently opened up its API to developers to bring a professional social context to websites, applications and services. Viadeo gives developers quick and efficient tools for integrating with Viadeo and a means for creating independent applications.

Viadeo uses 3scale’s API Management infrastructure to secure and control accesses to its API, obtain insightful analytics on the usage of its API and to provide developers and partners with a friendly user environment embedding critical information such as personal statistics on their API consumption.

Viadeo will officially launch the API platform in the US and Mexico on September 7th, 2011, but developers can already access the Viadeo API platform and the technical support team. For more information, please check out http://dev.viadeo.com/.

SentiRate is a service that allows you to “Capture the emotion” hidden within emails, documents, or any other digital content you have. At the heart of SentiRate is our Sentiment processing engine that Rates the emotions and attitudes within your content.

• In an organisation that receives a lot of correspondence from their customers each day, SentiRate can identify which items may be problematic so you can prioritize these;
• In an organisation that sends a lot of correspondence to their customers each day, SentiRate can ensure your messages are always positive.
• Automatically publish positive comments on your blog and enforce manual moderation for negative comments.
• Embed it into your own application or use it stand alone from our website.
• The uses are practically unlimited…

This Software As A Service (SAAS) is accessed via the API (Application Programming Interface) with different plans, rates etc. available at http://account.sentirate.com/plans . The API management is all handled via 3scale, although our customers only deal with trusted sentirate.com URLs and branding.

Other than 3scale, services utilized in the offering include Rack Space, Memcached and WordPress.

SentiRate was released as a beta product in 2011, with a steady flow of new features and enhancements coming out.

Why not give it a try now!

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – Jun 22, 2011) – Web and Mobile App enterprises and developers, such as Pingar, Mesagraph and Wine.com chose 3scale SaaS API management infrastructure as the platform of choice for rapid integration, ease of use and customer service. “We wanted to focus on our business rather than divert resources to manage our API,” said Peter Wren-Hilton, CEO of Pingar. “3scale stood apart based on its approach to a distributed system, ease of use and rapid integration.”

• Conversational event alert and discovery: on-the-go alert, discovery and conversation on local events, including shopping deals and transport alerts.
• Multi-modal mobility: seamless door-to-door information and guidance using a combination of transport modes including pedestrian, public transport, bicycle, car, and taxis. User preferences on time, cost, and carbon impact are taken into account to deliver a self-tailored user experience.
• Shared mobility: location-based carpooling, where users define and synchronize their shared rides in real-time.

Through advanced urban travel assistance services, brands can grab consumers that are more and more demanding, hurried and often overwhelmed with mobile services. “Applications powered by Chronomove API create a compelling conversation space for brands that are currently looking for means to non-intrusively capture the attention of consumers,” said Angel Talamona, chief executive officer, Senda. “Uniquely available as a distributed model and delivering outstanding service, 3scale made it easy for us to simplify the launch and distribution of Chronomove services, pillars of next generation applications for last-mile social customer relationship in urban areas.”

• Crowdsourcing info on attractions, news and traffic on highways by Abertis’ Sanef
• First/Last mile multi-modal assistant for carsharing by SNCF
• Dynamic Taxi-sharing by Orange

Developers can build applications based on Chronomove API that integrate social alerts, allowing mobile users to create, discover and micro-blog text and pictures around local events including deals proposed by brands. The applications can also guide users to such dynamic destinations, in real-time. The API provides links to location based features of popular Internet social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Developers can easily mash-up Chronomove services with open data and other sources including directories and city guides. The API is designed to be simple to integrate into mobile and web environments.

1. Query the API using a social URL.
2. PeekYou searches the social web and match public information for the individual associated with that social URL in real time.
3. PeekYou then indexes, standardizes, and categorizes the public content of their digital footprint.
4. PeekYou analyzes the data and provide key insights such as an interest graph and social value.
5. PeekYou returns the data to your platform or application by individual or aggregate.

At the core of PeekYou’s enterprise search technology is our data matching algorithm that allows us to search and consolidate linked and disparate public data.*

Seevl – when the website is the API

Seevl wants people to use seevl data to create new applications and data mash-ups. Yet, as opposed to most websites, Seevl does not provide a separate API to let developers access their data. Seevl relies on Content-negotiation principles to deliver alternative and machine-readable representations of this data from its webpages.

How to use Seevl’s API

To retrieve data, you have to pass three parameters in your headers:

- Accept – The content-type you require
- X_APP_ID – Your application ID
- X_APP_KEY – Your application Key

to get a list of facts about the beatles (genre, labels, members, etc.)

Company Data Trees Mobile API

The Mobile API reports whether a URL shows a mobile-formatted website and Adobe Flash across 10 different mobile devices. It is used by ad networks to check for mobile inventory across their publisher networks. Marketing technology companies also use it to calculate the likelihood their prospects will purchase related mobile advertising services.

Company Data Parked Domain API

The Parked Domain API detects if a given domain is parked. B2B data companies use it to purge dead businesses from marketing lists. Search engines and content analysis companies use it to remove unwanted web content from their databases.

The data from the mobile API has been featured in the Union Tribune, Business Week, DigiDay, Mobile Commerce Daily, MediaPost, and eMarketer. It was used in a November 2011 research study to calculate the Supply & Demand of the Mobile Web.

Full documentation and end-to-end code examples are available at api.companydatatrees.com