Over the weekend of Feb. 21st,
href="http://www.kaching.com"
target=""_blank"">kaChing was kind enough to
open
their doors to developers, market professionals, and armchair
fund managers alike, inviting all over Facebook and other social
sites to take a sneak peek at the API they've been developing,
enjoy some East Coast-style pizza, and develop the applications
they hope will bring even more would-be financial visionaries
into the fold. Over the past few months, they've been building an
API that mimics the functionality already available over Myspace,
Facebook, and their own site, the varied nature of their platform
giving them a clear head start. As is evident from
documentation-the
href="http://code.google.com/p/kaching-api/wiki/DesignGuidelines"
target="_blank">Design Guidelines going
into such
detail as type covariance-they've spent a lot of time and effort
making the process of developing a kaChing-capable app as
straightforward and easy as possible. The API itself is a RESTful
one, returning JSON objects explained in the Wiki, and is
complemented by a Java client exposing their own domain model,
and a Javascript library, mandatory for use in browsers due to
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) constraints.
href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/xignite/sets/72157614351220538/"
target="_blank">![]()
src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3340/3303679207_71ee38880c.jpg"
alt="Photos from the kaChing Garage Event" width="400"
height="300" />
Photos from the kaChing
Garage Event
In addition
to the functionality provided by the API directly, we've
partnered with kaChing to provide access to Fundamentals,
Financials, Historical and Split/Dividend data via Splice to
users of the kaChing API at no charge. Just sign up for a kaChing
API key, and…you're done! As always, Splice is free to
create custom mashups of Web Services, so it's easy to sign up
for other trial services and create an even more empowered
application. At the time of writing, there's only one third-party
application published to their App Directory, so there's still
time to develop a great first-mover app powered by kaChing and
Xignite for your favorite platform. Get rolling!
Related links:
- rel="nofollow"
href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/xignite/sets/72157614351220538/"
target="_blank">Photos from the Garage
Event
-
href="http://code.google.com/p/kaching-api/wiki/AppDirectory"
target="_blank">Directory of kaChing API
Apps
-
href="http://code.google.com/p/kaching-api/wiki/XigniteOverview"
target="_blank">kaChing/Xignite Registration
Information
-
href="http://code.google.com/p/kaching-api/"
target="_blank">kaChing API Wiki
-
href="http://groups.google.com/group/kaching-api"
target="_blank">API Google Group
-
target="_blank">kaChing Main site
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