Api News & Articles

eDiscovery solution services all aim to save customers and companies time and money. Due to the non-linear structure of eDiscovery, there are so many ways to go about making the process, whether it be pre-processing, data collection, filtering, review or post-processing phases, more pleasant for the user.

IBM (news, site) is focused on the analytics part of eDiscovery. Today they announced new IBM eDiscovery software with advanced analytics features. The goal is to help clients not just find information, but have them understand it better.

Seek and ye shall find. There certainly isn't a lack of things to discover. So much so that LeapFish.com recently announced that traffic on its search aggregator has tripled since the site’s November 2008 launch. What is so special about LeapFish?

Back in October, the New York Times created and released a Campaign Finance API (Application Programming Interface). Designed to let users analyze and re-use some of the data the NYT had been looking at while reporting on the presidential campaign, the API offered overall figures for presidential candidates, as well as state-by-state and ZIP code totals for specific candidates. They also launched a movie API, which allows users to search New York Times movie reviews by keyword and get lists of NYT Critics' Picks.

Now the Times has released a new API offering every article the paper has written since 1981 -- 2.8 million articles.

Facebook announced several new APIs for its platform. The new interfaces allow access to content, and methods for sharing that content through several Facebook Applications. Included in the new accessible APIs are Facebook status, notes, links and video. Oh goody, a new tsunami of inane, fundamentally useless third-party application install requests to turn down.

The act of initiating a query via search functionality is no longer seen as a magical, mythical process. According to a recent CMS Watch report, The Search and Information Access Report 2009, enterprise search technology is no longer perceived as being a stealth and secretive operation.

After having interviewed enterprise search customers from around the world to evaluate 20 solutions in the marketplace, it was evident that because of modern search offerings with the availability of improved administrative tools and APIs, the aura of search technologies has been demystified.

The W3C Web Applications Working Group is currently developing standard APIs for client-side Web Application development and is soliciting comments.

In June 2008, the WebAPI Working Group and Web Applications Working Group merged to form the new Web Applications (“WebApps”) Working Group. Chartered to maximize team and member resources, the working group works to develop the active deliverables from both groups, as well as add selected new deliverables relevant to market needs.

From East to West… Ektron is now ready to jump into those cowboy boots and embrace the oh-so-desired Bay Area. The Web CMS vendor (quite predictably so) announced the opening of two new offices — in San Francisco, California, and in Austin, Texas.

The addition of the new offices will extend Ektron’s market reach and provide additional support and services critical to the company’s expanding customer base and partner channel.

Ektron reports increasing demand for its products and services over the past 5 years. It also shows the revenue growth rate of over 400%.

During the past two years, due to the consistent increase in sales and ongoing development of the company’s partner channel, Ektron grew staff levels to approximately 200 employees and opened offices in Toronto, Canada, Sydney, Australia and the U.K.

The new San Francisco office will serve as a services and training facility. The Austin office will provide additional sales and services resources.

Coming on the heels of the September announcement of Ektron CMS400.NET v7.6 and Ektron’s new deployment options, Ektron is expanding big time. No wonder — it’s cheap, flexible, gets accolades every now and then and demos well.

O, the wonderful world of Web publishing. There’s never a dull moment, that’s for sure. This week has abounded with all kinds of news about acquisitions, applications and product launches — after awhile, it all seems to blend together.

In attempt to straighten it all out, we offer the following synthesis.

BitGravity, a provider of Content Delivery Network (CDN) services, has announced the release of its new application programming interface (API) called Advanced Progressive.

The new API will allow developers to integrate advertising, adjust bit-rates automatically, display virtual clips and add other functionality, which results in a scalable and interactive high-definition video solution.

New Bamboo, a software company that’s been developing solutions using the infamous Ruby on Rails since its conception, released Panda — a new Open Source platform designed for the easy uploading, transcoding and streaming of videos on websites.

Salesforce.com and Google have made a pretty big announcement this week. They now have a global strategic alliance. This alliance comes after the news of an integration service called Salesforce for Google Apps — a service that integrates Google Apps with Salesforce.com and their newest venture, Force.com Toolkit for Google Data APIs. According to CNET, this is just another step in Saleforce’s plan to take down the mighty Microsoft giant.

Google, in its quest to entrench itself into the enterprise space, has announced its Custom Search Business Edition (GCSBE): a simple and inexpensive way for small businesses to add a customizable, Google-powered search box to their websites.

In a few simple steps, businesses are able to sign up online for the hosted service, and minutes later, customers and visitors are able to search their site with the supreme power of Google.