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By: Ron Drabkin | Source: venturebeat.com

APIs, Application Programming Interfaces, are interfaces that allow one computer program to call another to create services. Web 2.0 mashups are predicated on APIs to allow programs to access each other. Recent, well known examples of programs built on APIs would include the mashup of Salesforce.com and Google Maps, or Adbrite, which raised $4m from Sequoia Capital to exploit Amazon’s API to create a marketplace consisting of thousands of advertisers.

Google began charging this month for usage of the API for AdWords, its flagship advertising tool. When Google initially published this API last year, the press speculated that software companies would quickly emerge to take advantage of the new access to AdWords.

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By: Tamar Weinberg

Rumor is floating around that Microsoft is about to come out with a free web analytics service which will rival Google Analytics. The project is currently called Gatineau and their welcome page is now live, but you can’t login just yet.

If this truly will be Google Analytics’s competition, I’m hoping this is going to address several shortcomings that I’ve found in Google Analytics, particularly the notion of inaccurate counts (especially when compared with Urchin, which is ironic given that Google purchased Urchin yet dropped its core functionality), the absence of the direct referral page in the analysis review, and complexity (especially for newbies — how about simple Urchin-like reports and an advanced view?)

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