Skills: none Concepts: Application program interface (API) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Application program interface
Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Internet skills – Application development – Content creation – User skills
generacion-y-and-voces-cubanas-unblocked-in-cuba/ I want to share this post
This popped up automatically. I reworded it.
Acknowledgement
The tweet
obalvoicesonline.org/2011/02/21/cuba-generacion-y-and-voces-cubanas-unblocked-in- cuba/&related=ellerybiddle:Post%20author&text=Cuba:%20Generaci%C3%B3n%20Y%20a nd%20Voces%20Cubanas%20Unblocked%20in%20Cuba&url= /2011/02/21/cuba-generacion-y-and-voces-cubanas-unblocked-in-cuba/&via=globalvoices How they did it -- the API
Add a Tweet button
Summary obalvoicesonline.org/2011/02/21/cuba-generacion-y-and-voces-cubanas-unblocked-in- cuba/&related=ellerybiddle:Post%20author&text=Cuba:%20Generaci%C3%B3n%20Y%20a nd%20Voces%20Cubanas%20Unblocked%20in%20Cuba&url= /2011/02/21/cuba-generacion-y-and-voces-cubanas-unblocked-in-cuba/&via=globalvoices
Self-study questions How does Twitter benefit from Global Voices using their API? How does using the Twitter API benefit from Global Voices? Find a Web site that uses the Google Maps API to include a map as part of their service. What is Google’s incentive to provide this API? What is the advantage to the developer of the site you found?
Resources The form for automatically generating the code for a simple Tweet button: Full documentation of the Twitter API: