Another social media company releases its API
Monday, August 13th, 2007
After the Facebook API and the Pownce API comes the coRank API. This story is from mashable…
coRank, the site that lets you create your own Digg, has launched the first version of its API.
All users with coRank sites have their own API, which makes it more flexible for the creation of applications to integrate coRank data. You’ll remember that while coRank first offered a way for users to collaborate within the main site to form groups of social bookmarking and aggregation tool, coRank shifted a bit after it’s initial launch to offer a way to create your own network of sorts for these social bookmarking tools. So further integration of the API into these networks will let you do more with your site. The API can be used in the more general sense as well, tying it in with your own personal website, blog or service.
It’s important to note that this first version of the coRank API is read-only in functionality. The upcoming version, which is currently being tested, will offer writing and editing functions.
In these days of open source, crowd-sourcing, and peer production (read Wikinomics if the last two terms get your juices flowing) software developers are embracing the almost infinite development power of the crowd - that crowd being the tens and hundreds of thousands of smart developers around the world. Its rapidly being recognized that no matter how big your development team you cannot compete with the almost limitless external resource. Social media technologies, email, IM, VoIP and the like are making collaboration even easier, allowing previously unconnected developers to self-organize into powerful competitive teams.