Saas Integration: Trends & Players
Note: entry originally published in November 2014, maintained regularly since then. By definition Software as a Service is easier to roll out than on-premises software because you don’t have to install… Read more »
Category: web services & APIs
Sign Up Using SSO, Done Right
Kudos to SurveyMonkey for their very clear, user-friendly sign up form (pictured above) that lets you sign up with your existing Google, Facebook,or Microsoft credentials. They’re far from the only SaaS… Read more »
Cloud Toolbox: There’s A Micro-SaaS For That
Here are a few tools that I was surprised even existed when I first ran into them because they address pretty niche needs, but it’s awesome that they do. I… Read more »
SaaS Integration: Multi-Step Workflows & The Category’s Future
Retrieving and remixing data from web APIs and SaaS through two or more steps is a decade-old idea, starting with Yahoo Pipes in 2007 if not earlier (screenshot above from Derek… Read more »
Web Services and APIs Need to Advertise Their Health Status
It seems everything is now being turned into an off-the-cloud service, and as a case in point StatusPage.io launched in 2013 to let companies outsource their availability dashboards. They already have lined up a… Read more »
Publishers Contributing to Open Source Projects, Maintaining APIs
I’ve put together lists of teams and people working at the intersection of news publishing, data, visualization, and online/mobile/software development to get a better sense of who talks the talk and… Read more »
Zapier Devs Read My Mind, Among Other Feats
This API status meta dashboard is great, as it scratches an itch I’ve had for almost a decade. I meant to suggest to the Zapier folks that they develop exactly that,… Read more »
Payment Sandboxes: Not Quite for Grown Ups
We’ve been working in the Paypal sandbox and Authorize.net test account lately and neither really feel like the real thing. Paypal’s sandbox is slow as molasses, among other very irritating… Read more »
While Yahoo Smokes Its Pipe, Others Do Real Work
I haven’t heard back from Yahoo about their intent with Pipes so I’ll assume they’re just screwing around and having fun (which I guess is a somewhat valid statement about… Read more »
Yahoo Pipes Promising, But What’s the End Goal?
Like many people, I find Yahoo Pipes to be a bold and exciting move. What I don’t quite get is what audience Yahoo is eventually planning to go after. I… Read more »