API’s (Application Programming Interfaces) Proliferate, Making Totally New Mashups Possible

’re everywhere. Twitter, Facebook, PayPal, Credit Card Companies, Map Data, Weather Data, Traffic Data – and many more too countless to list. They essentially make almost anything possible in the way of presenting data to your customers. The combinations are almost endless, limited only by your imagination.

For example, API’s make it possible for you to “Follow Me on Twitter and “Friend Me" on FaceBook. They allow us to update multiple social media accounts (Twitter, LinkedIn, FaceBook, etcetera) at the same time. They make it possible for an Internet User to send a text message to a cell phone, or better yet, a voice call to a cell phone over the Internet.

This means you no longer need to settle for what’s available, because with API’s, nearly anything you can think of is possible.

Savvy Web Users Won’t Settle For Two Websites if One Can Do the Same!

It’s been over ten years now since Net 2.0 made debut and changed everything. This continually emerging technology made FaceBook and Twitter possible, in fact, much of what we think of as commonplace today is in one way or another an outgrowth of how Net 2.0 has changed the Internet. The fact that Net 4.0 is already on the streets with engineers working on 5.0, the ability to approach a project in a whole new way is more possible than ever before – and the Internet community expects it to be faster, more valuable, and more relevant.

Increasingly, web users in the know are gravitating to those sites that offer as many information sources, or as many services, as the potential customer desires. For example, many people in recent years have switched to IGoogle for their home page (www.google.com/ig), allowing them to add only the content or gadgets they desire. According to Wikipedia, in October of 2007, that was a whopping 7.1 million people using IGoogle!

The use of API’s by innovative web developers continues across every aspect of the Internet, much like a viral video! As businesses scramble to find that unique content and to adopt Social Media tools in a rapidly changing and complex marketplace, it is the use of API’s that is going to make everything possible.

How Do I Use API’s On My Website?

In actuality, it is a simple process; just go to the provider of the service you want to integrate on your web site and follow the instructions of their custom API. You don’t have to be a programmer to do it, but it sure helps! Sometimes, for complex business systems like StreamSend, it would take a developer as long as one hundred person-hours, costing nearly a thousand dollars, to fully integrate their site with the StreamSend service.

The end product is a bunch of code that gets embedded into the mechanisms of an Internet site. What viewers get is a site that is more valuable to them, filled with more relevant content or ease of use. Innovative marketers will use these newly available tools to reach larger segments of their intended audience – and a larger piece of the market share!

I Have An Idea About using API’s on My Internet Site, but I Don’t Know How or I Don’t Have the Time. . .

That’s okay – Arachnid Creations has you covered! We can custom create any API “Plug-in” that you can think of and make it simple to integrate with your site, often with as little as a few lines of code (and we can even do that part for you).

So let’s say you have a Real Estate site and you’d like to combine Google mapping data with area demographics and other statistics, including weather and traffic, but you don’t have the time to do the research and set it all up, we could do it for you. And while that may sound like a very expensive proposition – and in fact may be worth thousands of dollars, it would likely cost much less than you can imagine.

Even if you don’t know what’s possible, or if your idea can be made to work, send us an email and let us know what you are thinking. We can do a quick feasibility study and get back to you with a quote.

How Can You Do Web Services API Development So Inexpensively?

We know, for example, that it takes a top web developer nearly a hundred hours to fully integrate StreamSend with a particular web server, because that’s how long it took our top developers to do it. But our developers than went a step beyond (as is our custom!) and we made it compatible with nearly any web server.

We’re now able to offer our customers that same full integration for as little as $35.00, with a satisfaction guarantee. (Please see our Custom Web Service API Development Plug-In for StreamSend). (Our development team has several other Web Service API Development Plug-Ins and Internet Marketing Tools in the works, so check back often for other great money and time saving products!)

In any case if you have a great idea, we can probably create it for you for a very reasonable price, or perhaps, even to partner with you to create the customization you desire in a mutually advantageous manner.

Please send us an email or call us at (760) 618-1006!