instapaper announced today that its full API is now available to developers. The documentation is here. Up until now, developers have been able to add articles to a users Instapaper account using the API, but haven’t been able to give uses access to their articles. According to Instapaper creator Marco Arment, third party applications that allow users to read articles actually scrape Instapaper site for content. Developers will now be able to pull down articles from the API, but there is a catch.
Arment writes that he was reluctant to make a full API available because he was worried about competing apps driving Instapaper out of business. The cost of maintaining Instapaper is non-trivial, and it makes the majority of its money from its iOS application. Instapaper doesn’t have venture backing to support the costs associated with an free API, so the company needs to remain cash flow positive …
Joint adventure of Google and other social networking sites, Open Social is a set of protocol or can be defined as application interface to implement as a core functioning element .Recently Born, this API is said to be a bit of the chunk as it’s suppose to be a fragment of Google’s ambitious social networking project-Maka Maka. It’s also said to be as a solution to the challenge imposed by Face book Platform on Google …
