APIs

Developers take note, the Bing Search Library for PHP has arrived and with it, you now have a simple way to submit queries and retrieve results from the Bing Engine via the Bing API. The results you fetch back can then be used in your own PHP application. To get started, all you need is the code…

At the Next Web Conference in Amsterdam, the Windows Live Messenger team announced “Messenger Connect,” a brand-new collection of APIs for Windows Live Messenger. The Messenger Connect API actually ties together APIs that have been around for awhile, including the Windows Live ID, Contacts API,…

Long Zheng, the blogger at the popular site iStartedSomething.com, just revealed his new experimental search engine created using the Bing API. The API, along with JSON and JQuery, was used to create a prototype search engine that “does away with a search button and page loads,” he says. Instead,…

If you’re a developer here in the U.S., there’s a new contest going on now called “Will Code for Green” that’s designed to promote the launch of the new Bing API. Developers are being encouraged to build useful web applications that take advantage of the API’s capabilities in one of two…

Are you a developer looking to build a Silverlight application using the New York Times API? Well, now you can. The New York Times Silverlight Kit has just become an Open Source project distributed under the MS-PL license. If you’re not familiar with what this kit does, it’s something that you can…

Microsoft this morning announced four guiding principles for it's major products, including Vista, Office, and SQL Server. Ensuring open connections, data portability, enhanced support for industry standards, and open engagement with the industry have all been listed as prioritied for current and…