Given that I helped start the Yahoo! Developer Network and once again spend my days (and some nights) working on it, you should not be shocked to know that I think APIs are pretty important.

Yahoo! Open Hack Day Starts Tomorrow. Well, “tomorrow” means “today” by the time most of you read this.

Nine months after AOL acquired his video search company, Truveo, Dr. Tim Tuttle debuted his next astonishing accomplishment in online video.

Have you ever wanted to enrich your site with information from Google, Amazon, eBay, or one of the many other sites that provide web services through SOAP?

Webmasters on the hunt for certain information through Yahoo Search will begin seeing their queries redirected to Site Explorer, which just received a significant update.

At a speech on the Microsoft campus, Bill Gates gave an outline of how the company hopes to compete with-and even outdo-the reigning search champ Google. These and other companies are vying for contracts to install search systems at businesses. A key component of Gates’s plan to succeed is the omnipresent Windows software.

Yahoo! has been promoting two new Yahoo! Maps APIs for AJAX and Flash that webmasters can work with to publish customized maps on their websites. The Yahoo! Maps team says each API has features that may cause one to “geek out.”

Back when I was an MVP product groups would bring us into a room and hand us some cash and say “spend this on the features you want” and have us look at a board with hundreds of features where we’d pin the cash on the features that we thought were most important.

Yahoo turned four APIs loose on its Developer Network; third-party coders can craft applications using technology from Yahoo’s Photos, Calendar, MyWeb and Shopping products.

Yahoo has just not quite made available new APIs via the Yahoo! Developer Network.

Beta versions of the Site Explorer tool have been made available on several of Yahoo’s international portals, and sites can be submitted to the service for assessment.

In the technology and Internet industries, a lot of companies publish what’s called an application protocol interface, or an API for short.

Commercial developers can now obtain APIs to the Virtual Earth application free of charge.

A signature part of the forthcoming Microsoft Professional Developers Conference will see some MSN applications open for development, including MSN Search.

Yahoo! Search Marketing has entered into agreements with four web analytics providers to better enhance its reporting and help fight click fraud.

The search and portal company has made three application programming interfaces available for developers creating shopping-related applications.

You know, I give MSN Search a lot of crap. We all know it’s behind Google, right? And it’s even behind Yahoo too.

Yeay … I’ll write more about this later, but it’s really late in NYC, I’m stuck on bluetooth/verizon since the Hilton’s network sucks, and I’m getting tired.

You already know API’s are taking off but here’s some more proof from someone other than myself.

Plumtree Software launched Web services-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for Plumtree Collaboration and Search Server that will dramatically increase the speed and flexibility with which Plumtree customers can assemble composite applications.

As J2ME gains prominence, the range of things that developers can do with Java on devices is expanding. This month I’ll cover the Mobile Media API (JSR-135), which is an optional J2ME package. The Mobile Media APIs enable the playing and recording of audio, taking pictures and playing videos, and other things.