“The API is read-only at the moment, although the ability to post photos to EyeEm from third party apps is in the pipeline – something that Instagram seems opposed to. The API currently offers access to user photos, albums, favourites, likes and comments, as well as topics and photo tags by city, country, venue and by event.”

“Specifically, Goodreads finds two requirements of Amazon’s API licensing agreement too restrictive. Amazon requires sites that use its API to link that content back to the Amazon site exclusively—so a book page on Goodreads would have to link only to its product page on Amazon, and not to any other source or retailer. Goodreads links to many online retailers. “Our goal is to be an open place for all readers to discover and buy books from all retailers, both online and offline,” the company told me. Amazon also does not allow any content from its API to be used on mobile sites and apps.”

“Aber die Faszination von Readmill liegt nicht nur in den Lese-Apps, sondern vielmehr in der Infrastruktur, die durch den Dienst geschaffen wird. Bereits jetzt gibt es eine offene Schnittstelle, die es jedem ermöglicht, die sozialen Funktionen von Readmill zu nutzen und mit eigenen Apps zu verbinden. Auf lange Sicht könnte jeder E-Book-Reader-Anbieter sein Angebot mit dem Readmill-Netz verbinden.”

“The API lets you query your feeds by a bunch of meta-data fields, including author, feed and date.”

“AppMobi hopes to make money through offering a host of back-end services for mobile web apps, things like messaging, in-app purchase and analytics. It hopes to lead the way with developer tools and services and make money off the growth of mobile web apps. AppMobi currently has about 27,000 developers, with thousands of apps deployed and 40,000 projects under development.”