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New Common Craft Video: APIs

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.      Our Product is Explanation Today we're announcing a new video and new features  we think you'll love.    First, the video: Application Programming Interfaces - APIs - Explained by Common Craft     What it teaches:   This video tells the story of Carson, who has an idea to sell interactive maps on his website. Rather than buying and implementing all the tools himself, he discovers APIs that help him get started quickly and build upon a foundation provided by specialists.  It teaches: Why APIs can be important for organizations and websites How APIs can differ from buying technology outright How APIs work, using examples of map data and credit ca

New APIs

New API's from Prograrammable Web Ask Ziggy Ask Ziggy is a service that allows developers to integrate natural language voice commands to applications. Ask Ziggy include voice-to-text functionality, voice-activated commands, and can be used across multiple platforms. The Ask Ziggy API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of Ask Ziggy with other applications and to create new applications. Some example API methods include adding applications, creating events, and managing actions. WhatLanguage WhatLanguage.net is a language detection web service. Users can cut and paste text and upload files to determine what language the text is in. The WhatLanguage API allows developers to access and integrate the functionality of WhatLanguage with other applications and to create new applications. The main API method is detecting the language of text, websites, and files, either one at a time or multiple