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Forget the elephants – there's a donkey in the room (pmail.com)
Twitter API Changes Set Maximum User Cap for 3rd Parties (thenextweb.com)
Google Kills Weather API (thenextweb.com)
Lambda Labs Releases Face Recognition API βeta (api.lambdal.com)
Current status: API v1.1 | Twitter Developers (dev.twitter.com)
Amazon Maps API (amazonappstoredev.com)
Restful API framework for Flask / MongoEngine (github.com)
Notes on the USE paradigm for API design (hjr3.tumblr.com)
Optimizing the Netflix API (techblog.netflix.com)
A Rest DNS API allowing to perform DNS queries over HTTP, outputting JSON (statdns.com)
A Guide to Designing API Client Libraries (kev.inburke.com)
Ask Lobsters: What is the general consensus on the best API authentication these days?
I liked Flickr's now-deprecated [hash-the-params](http://www.flickr.com/services/api/auth.howto.web.html) authentication because it was simple (though [flawed](http://vnhacker.blogspot.com/2009/09/flickrs-api-signature-forgery.html), it is fixable). Now it seems like most sites are using OAuth 1....
Hypermedia API for Industrial Applications (projexsys.com)
Show Lobsters: Yardbase, free and open API of local, community-based data (yardbase.org)
Still very alpha... developed during a Startup Weekend event.
Google Glass' The Mirror API - How It Works (i-programmer.info)
Indicating Problems in HTTP APIs (mnot.net)
Show Lobsters: Scalabitz, content discovery through Bit.ly's API (branchandbound.net)
Debugging the Stripe API using Runscope (blog.epanastasi.com)
RRDA : a REST API written in Go allowing to perform DNS queries over HTTP (github.com)
Building an API with Go at Microco.sm (speakerdeck.com)
Web API performance: profiling Django REST framework (dabapps.com)
Telize : a JSON IP address geolocation (GeoIP) REST API built on Nginx and Lua (telize.com)
Tesla Model S REST API Authentication Flaws (programming.oreilly.com)
Phillips releases light bulbs with an API (meethue.com)
Best Practices for Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API (vinaysahni.com)
Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML (infoq.com)
Web API Versioning Smackdown (mnot.net)
Host a Personal Data API on Heroku (longren.org)
Hypermedia APIs - a session at Øredev (2010) (oredev.org)
This talk helped me fully realise the reasons for HATEOAS, and the 3rd level of the [Richardson Maturity Model](http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.html). It gives some really useful practical examples of ways that proper use of HATEOAS can enhance both client and server side de...
API pagination the way RFC2616 intended it. (github.com)