This Week in APIs- October 16-22 »

We've been thinking about slogans lately. How do you guys feel about: "You do the REST, we'll do the rest?" Alright alright. Here's the best news in APIs from this week.

Game development... more social? Interesting article on what the Playstation integration with the Facebook API holds for the future of gaming. APIs are disrupting the gaming and console space- good news for devs and the industry as games become increasingly weaved into the social sphere.

The OpenStack project, an open source cloud computing software for managing compute, launched its first official release. Notable is its OpenStack API, which will likely play a big role in shaping the future of cloud APIs. Worth a read over from Alex Williams at ReadWriteWeb.  

PayPal's P2P (person to person) payment API is showing significant adoption with banks. Look out for a big announcement next week at the Innovate conference- we'll be there too so make sure to say hi!

Dev Candy

• Mappr, an iPhone and web app that lets you publish check-ins to Facebook Groups, is one of the first apps to integrate into the new Facebook Groups API. Worth a look at how they are making it work.
• MapQuest launched a new API to provide geographic search results for any data added to its OpenStreetMap. The Nominatim Search provides an interface to an open source project that lets you do cool things like landmark searches. As the data explosion only grows in volume, search functionality and search layers become increasingly important. Great move.
• Goodreads, a social network for book lovers, has opened up an API to pull rating and reviews for book titles. Register for a dev key and get hacking!

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