A look at the BlueVia Developer Platform »

BlueVia, a global developer platform initiative of Telefonica, has partnered with Apigee to provide the BlueVia API console for developers to explore and test their APIs.

So we asked them to sit down with us to tell us a little about BlueVia. In this video, BlueVia's Dan Appelquist and Jose Valles discuss the BlueVia Platform with Jeremy Perlman of Apigee.

Tune in to learn what BlueVia is, how the platform provides access to Telefonica's assets and helps developers take apps, web services, and ideas to market.

And it's BlueVia's first birthday and they're celebrating by giving developers a chance to win a MacBook Air and Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Check the BlueVia blog for details.

BlueVia Developer Platform

The SMSified REST API Explorer »

Voxeo Labs, the creators of SMSified and other innovative communications services and technologies, has partnered with Apigee to introduce the new SMSified API Explorer!  Developers can explore and experiment with the SMSified REST API without writing a single line of code! Get started with adding inbound and outbound SMS text messaging to your application today.

In this video, Chris Matthieu of Voxeo labs walks you through using the API Explorer to interact with SMSified's SMS REST API.

SMSified API Explorer

The Echo Nest Remix API- Literally Music to the Ears »

Every now and then at Apigee we run into an API that is so brilliant, so elegantly inventive; an API that elevates mankind, changes the way we see the world, and renews our obsession with making a better way to API. 

The Echo Nest Remix API is an internet synthesizer API. It lets you do amazing things with music and video, like write remix programs, sync videos to songs, mashup audio tracks and more. It's currently available as an open source SDK for Python- more languages soon- and is easy to install on OSX, Windows and Linux/Source.

We've had some fun this morning playing with different implementations of the API; like cowbell-ifying Led Zeppelin's Babe I'm Gonna Leave You with http://morecowbell.dj/ and listening to samples from "The Swinger", which takes each beat, time-stretching the first half while time-shrinking the second half to make swing from any song you can think of. 

We also like how the Remix API provides a list of example implementations to inspire and help people learn- great best-practice for API providers.

See any mind-blowing APIs we should know about? Leave a comment or tweet at us: www.twitter.com/apigee