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API Equality — Northern California <=SEP=> API Equality – Northern California is an American social justice advocacy non-profit whose mission is to build the power and increase the visibility of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Asian Pacific Islander (LGBTQ API) community.The organization was founded in 2004 in response to a large rally against same-sex marriage organized by the Chinese Christian community in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Agent-based model <=SEP=> An agent-based model (ABM) is one of a class of computational models for simulating the actions and interactions of autonomous agents (both individual or collective entities such as organizations or groups) with a view to assessing their effects on the system as a whole. It combines elements of game theory, complex systems, emergence, computational sociology, multi-agent systems, and evolutionary programming. Monte Carlo Methods are used to introduce randomness.

American Photonics <=SEP=> American Photonics, Inc. was a very early developer of LAN technologies based first in Brewster, NY, moving later to Brookfield Center, CT.  American Photonics, Inc., also referred to as API, was founded in 1982 by James Walyus (1938–2000) while he was employed by Exxon Optical Information Systems (Exxon OIS) of Elmsford, NY.

Apache MINA <=SEP=> Apache MINA (Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network Applications) is an open source Java network application framework. MINA can be used to create scalable, high performance network applications. MINA provides unified APIs for various transports like TCP, UDP, serial communication. It also makes it easy to make an implementation of custom transport type.

Apis cerana <=SEP=> Apis cerana, or the Asiatic honey bee (or the eastern honey bee), is a species of honey bee found in southern and southeastern Asia, including China, Pakistan, India, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands.

Apis dorsata <=SEP=> Apis dorsata, the giant honey bee, is a honey bee of South and Southeast Asia, mainly in forested areas such as the Terai of Nepal and sometimes even in Malaysia and Singapore. The subspecies with the largest individuals is the Himalayan cliff honey bee — A. d. laboriosa — but typical A. dorsata workers from other subspecies are around 17–20 mm (0.7–0.8 in) long. Nests are mainly built in exposed places far off the ground, on tree limbs and under cliff overhangs, and sometimes on buildings.

Application programming interface <=SEP=> In computer programming, an application programming interface (API) is a set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications.  An API expresses a software component in terms of its operations, inputs, outputs, and underlying types.  An API defines functionalities that are independent of their respective implementations, which allows definitions and implementations to vary without compromising the interface.

BeOS API <=SEP=> The BeOS API, often called the Be API after Be Inc., is the application programming interface required to write graphical native applications on BeOS, and hence its derivatives such as ZETA and Haiku.The API is divided into a number of "kits", which collect related classes together and bear some relation to the library which contains the supporting code.It is almost entirely C++, with third-party bindings for most classes in Python and a tiny subset of classes, mostly Storage kit related, in Perl.

Berkeley sockets <=SEP=> Berkeley sockets is an application programming interface (API) for Internet sockets and Unix domain sockets, used for inter-process communication (IPC). It is commonly implemented as a library of linkable modules.The API evolved with little modification from a de facto standard into a component of the POSIX specification. Therefore, the term POSIX sockets is essentially synonymous with Berkeley sockets.

Bret Taylor <=SEP=> Bret Taylor is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He was the co-creator of Google Maps and the Google Maps API. Taylor left Google in June 2007 to join venture capital firm Benchmark Capital as an entrepreneur-in-residence, where he and Jim Norris, another former Google employee, created the social network web site FriendFeed.

Delicious (website) <=SEP=> Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005. By the end of 2008, the service claimed more than 5.3 million users and 180 million unique bookmarked URLs. Yahoo sold Delicious to AVOS Systems in April 2011, and the site relaunched in a "back to beta" state on September 27 that year. In May 2014, AVOS sold the site to Science Inc.

Distributed social network <=SEP=> A distributed social network or federated social network is an Internet social networking service that is decentralized and distributed across distinct providers. It consists of multiple social websites, where users of each site communicate with users of any of the involved sites.

Enterprise social networking <=SEP=> Enterprise social networking focuses on the use of online social networks or social relations among people who share business interests and/or activities. Enterprise social networking is often a facility of enterprise social software (regarded as a primary component of Enterprise 2.0), which is essentially  social software used in "enterprise" (business/commercial) contexts.

Eureka Streams <=SEP=> Eureka Streams is a free, open source enterprise social networking platform developed by Lockheed Martin.  Activity streams and gadgets make up its core functionality.  Content within Eureka Streams consists primarily of microblogs and internal and external web feeds. Users typically provide links to other content, such as wikis, blogs, and shared documents housed in a content management system.

Ex.plode.us <=SEP=> ex.plode.us was a website search engine that indexed people. It was created by Curverider, the creators of the Elgg social networking platform.

FC-HBA API <=SEP=> In computing, the FC-HBA API (also called the SNIA Common HBA API)  is an Application Programming Interface for Host Bus Adapters connecting computers to hard disks via a Fibre Channel network. It was developed by the Storage Networking Industry Associationand published by the T11.5 committee of INCITSAn "early implementers version" was published in 2000, and the current version was completed in 2002.

Facebook Platform <=SEP=> The Facebook Platform is an umbrella term used to describe the set of services, tools, and products provided by the social networking service Facebook for third-party developers to create their own applications and services that access data in Facebook.  It was launched in 2010.  The platform offers a set of programming interfaces and tools which enable developers to integrate with the open "social graph" of personal relations and other things like songs, places, and Facebook pages.

Facebook features <=SEP=> Facebook is a social network service website launched on February 4, 2004. This is a list of  software and technology features that can be found on the Facebook website.

GNUnet <=SEP=> GNUnet is a free software framework for decentralized, peer-to-peer networking and an official GNU package. The framework offers link encryption, peer discovery, resource allocation, communication over many transports (such as tcp, udp, http, https, wlan and bluetooth) and various basic peer-to-peer algorithms for routing, multicast and network size estimation.GNUnet's basic network topology is that of a mesh network.

Geosocial networking <=SEP=> Geosocial networking is a type of social networking in which geographic services and capabilities such as geocoding and geotagging are used to enable additional social dynamics.  User-submitted location data or geolocation techniques can allow social networks to connect and coordinate users with local people or events that match their interests. Geolocation on web-based social network services can be IP-based or use hotspot trilateration.

Gnip <=SEP=> Gnip, Inc. was a social media API aggregation company. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, it provided data from dozens of social media websites via a single API. Calling itself the "Grand Central Station for the social web", Gnip was among the first social media API aggregation services.Gnip is known as an early influencer in building the real-time web.

Gnolia <=SEP=> Gnolia, named Ma.gnolia until 2009, was a social bookmarking web site with an emphasis on design, social features, and open standards. It is now perhaps most notable for losing members' bookmarks in a widely reported data loss incident in January 2009. It relaunched as a smaller service several months later and was ultimately shut down at the end of 2010.Users could rate bookmarks and mark bookmarks as private.

Google Friend Connect <=SEP=> Google Friend Connect was a free social networking site established on May 12, 2008. Similar in practice to Facebook Platform and MySpaceID, it took a decentralised approach, allowing users to build a profile to share and update information (through messaging, photographs and video content) via third-party sites.

Heello <=SEP=> Heello was an online social networking service and microblogging service launched in August 2011, and owned and operated by Heello Inc. Heello enabled its users to send and read text-based posts and to share pictures and videos. Heello was founded by Noah Everett (the founder of Twitpic), exactly one day after Twitter rolled out its official photo-sharing app.

Honey bee <=SEP=> A honey bee (or honeybee), in contrast with the stingless honey bee, is any bee that is a member of the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax. Honey bees are the only extant members of the tribe Apini, all in the genus Apis. Currently, only seven species of honey bee are recognized, with a total of 44 subspecies, though historically, from six to eleven species have been recognized.

ISCSI Management API <=SEP=> In the field of storage area networks, the iSCSI Management API (IMA) is a SNIA's standard for managing both iSCSI initiators and hosts containing them.

International Network for Social Network Analysis <=SEP=> The International Network for Social Network Analysis is the professional association of social network analysis. The rapid increase in awareness of social networks, social network software, and social networking has led to lively discussions and influence beyond sheer numbers.

JDBC driver <=SEP=> A JDBC driver is a software component enabling a Java application to interact with a database. JDBC drivers are analogous to ODBC drivers, ADO.NET data providers, and OLE DB providers.To connect with individual databases, JDBC (the Java Database Connectivity API) requires drivers for each database.

Java APIs for Integrated Networks <=SEP=> Java APIs for Integrated Networks (JAIN) is an activity within the Java Community Process, developing APIs for the creation of telephony (voice and data) services. Originally, JAIN stood for Java APIs for Intelligent Network. The name was later changed to Java APIs for Integrated Networks to reflect the widening scope of the project. The JAIN activity consists of a number of "Expert Groups", each developing a single API specification.

Java Community Process <=SEP=> The Java Community Process (JCP), established in 1998, is a formalized mechanism that allows interested parties to develop standard technical specifications for Java technology. Anyone can become a JCP Member by filling a form available at the JCP website.

Java Management Extensions <=SEP=> Java Management Extensions (JMX) is a Java technology that supplies tools for managing and monitoring applications, system objects, devices (e.g. printers) and service-oriented networks. Those resources are represented by objects called MBeans (for Managed Bean).

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition <=SEP=> Java Platform, Enterprise Edition or Java EE is a widely used enterprise computing platform developed under the Java Community Process. The platform provides an API and runtime environment for developing and running enterprise software, including network and web services, and other large-scale, multi-tiered, scalable, reliable, and secure network applications.

Java XML <=SEP=> The Java programming language XML APIs from Sun Microsystems consist of the following separate computer programming APIs: Java API for XML Processing, or JAXP. Java API for XML Messaging, or JAXM. Java API for XML-based RPC, or JAX-RPC. Java API for XML Registries, or JAXR. Java API for XML Web Services, or JAX-WS. Java API for RESTful Web Services, or JAX-RS. Java API for XQuery, or XQJ. Java Architecture for XML Binding, or JAXB.

List of Java APIs <=SEP=> There are 2 types of Java Programming Language Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)  the official CORE Java API, contained in the Android (Google), SE(OpenJDK and Oracle), MicroEJ (IS2T). These packages (java.* packages) are the core Java language packages, meaning that programmers using the Java language had to use them in order to make any worthwhile use of the java language.   optional APIs that can be downloaded separately.

List of open APIs <=SEP=> This is a list of major active Open APIs, or Application programming interfaces, sets of technologies that enable applications to interact with each other.

List of social networking websites <=SEP=> This is a list of major active social networking websites and excludes dating websites (see Comparison of online dating websites). For defunct social networking websites, see List of defunct social networking websites.This list is not exhaustive, and is limited to notable, well-known sites. The Alexa website rankings are from various time periods.

Me2day <=SEP=> Me2day (Hangul: 미투데이) was a microblogging and social networking service in South Korea acquired and owned by NHN Corporation (present-day Naver Corporation). Similar to Twitter, Me2day was popular in South Korea with earlier establishments in android market, especially among adolescents and youth of twenties. Me2DAY had an open API and most of the applications built around it added entertainment benefits to the site.

Microsoft Developer Network <=SEP=> Microsoft Developer Network, widely referred to by its abbreviation, MSDN, is the portion of Microsoft responsible for managing the firm's relationship with developers and testers, such as hardware developers interested in the operating system (OS), and software developers developing on the various OS platforms or using the API and/or scripting languages of Microsoft's applications.

Mobile Backend as a service <=SEP=> Mobile Backend as a service (MBaaS), also known as "backend as a service" (BaaS), is a model for providing web and mobile app developers with a way to link their applications to backend cloud storage and APIs exposed by back end applications while also providing features such as user management, push notifications, and integration with social networking services.   These services are provided via the use of custom software development kits (SDKs) and application programming interfaces (APIs).

Mobile social network <=SEP=> Mobile social networking is social networking where individuals with similar interests converse and connect with one another through their mobile phone and/or tablet. Much like web-based social networking, mobile social networking occurs in virtual communities. A current trend for social networking websites, such as Facebook, is to create mobile apps to give their users instant and real-time access from their device.

MuleSoft <=SEP=> MuleSoft is a software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides integration software for connecting applications, data sources and APIs, in the cloud or on-premises.

Multi-path Management API <=SEP=> The SNIA Multi-path Management API (MMA) allows a management application to discover multipath devices on current systems and to discover the associated local and device ports.

Myspace <=SEP=> Myspace (originally: MySpace) is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.Myspace was acquired by News Corporation in July 2005 for $580 million. From 2005 until 2008, Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world, and in June 2006 surpassed Google as the most visited website in the United States.

Native API <=SEP=> The Native API (with capitalized N) is the application programming interface (API) used by Windows NT and user mode applications. It is usually used during system boot, when other components of Windows are unavailable, and by routines such as those in kernel32.dll that implement the Windows API. The entry point of ntdll.dll is LdrInitializeThunk. Most of the Native API calls are implemented in ntoskrnl.exe and are exposed to user mode by ntdll.dll.

Network socket <=SEP=> A network socket is an endpoint of an  inter-process communication across a computer network. Today, most communication between computers is based on the Internet Protocol; therefore most network sockets are Internet sockets.A socket API is an application programming interface (API), usually provided by the operating system, that allows application programs to control and use network sockets.

Ning (website) <=SEP=> Ning is an online platform for people and organizations to create custom social networks, launched in October 2005. Ning offers customers the ability to create a community website with a customized appearance and feel; feature sets such as photos, videos, forums and blogs; and support for “Like”, plus integration with Facebook, Twitter, Google and Yahoo!. Ning, Inc. is owned by Mode Media.Ning was  co-founded by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini.

OneAPI <=SEP=> OneAPI is a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) supported by the GSM Association that expose network capabilities over the Internet.Any mobile operator or service provider is able to implement and use OneAPI. OneAPI is intended to complement existing client-side and Web APIs and not replace it by providing access to network capabilities and information, regardless of operator.It supersedes Parlay X APIs.

OpenSocial <=SEP=> OpenSocial is a public specification that defines a component hosting environment (container) and a set of common application programming interfaces (APIs) for web-based applications.  Initially it was designed for social network applications and was developed by Google along with MySpace and a number of other social networks.

Open API <=SEP=> Open API (often referred to as OpenAPI new technology) is a term used in the Application Programming Interface (API) process that uses sets of technologies that enable websites to interact with each other by using REST, SOAP, JavaScript and other web technologies. The technology is used in non-web-based applications, and becoming an increasing trend in "Web 2.0" applications.

Open Collaboration Services <=SEP=> The Open Collaboration Services (OCS) is an open and vendor-independent modern REST-based API for integration of web communities and web-based services into desktop and mobile applications. It allows to exchange relevant data from a social network between the site and clients such as other websites and applications or widgets running locally on the user's machine or mobile device.

Pcap <=SEP=> In the field of computer network administration, pcap (packet capture) consists of an application programming interface (API) for capturing network traffic.

Portable Contacts <=SEP=> Portable Contacts is an open protocol for developers to make it easier for developers to give their users a secure way to access the address books and friends lists they have built up all over the web. The goal of the project is to increase data portability by creating a common and open specification to bridge proprietary contacts Application programming interfaces (API) such as Google's GData Contacts API, Yahoo's Address Book API, and Microsoft's Live Contacts API.

Portals network programming application programming interface <=SEP=> Portals is a low-level network API for high-performance networking on high-performance computing systems developed by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico.  Portals is currently the lowest-level network programming interface on the commercially successful XT line of supercomputers from Cray.

PostRank <=SEP=> PostRank was a social media analytics service that used a proprietary ranking algorithm to measure "social engagement" with published content based on blog comments and links, Internet bookmarks, clicks, page views, and activities from social network services such as Twitter, Digg, Facebook and Myspace. In June 2011, PostRank was acquired by Google.The company was formerly called AideRSS, Inc.

Pownce <=SEP=> Pownce was a free social networking and micro-blogging site started by Internet entrepreneurs Kevin Rose, Leah Culver, and Daniel Burka. Pownce was centered on sharing messages, files, events, and links with friends. The site launched on June 27, 2007, and was opened to the public on January 22, 2008. On December 1, 2008, Pownce announced that it had been acquired by blogging company Six Apart, and that the service would soon shut down. It was subsequently shut down on December 15, 2008.

Privacy concerns with social networking services <=SEP=> Social networking sites vary in the levels of privacy offered.  For some social networking sites like Facebook, providing real names and other personal information is encouraged by the site(onto a page known as a ‘Profile‘).  These information usually consist of birth date, current address, and telephone number(s).  Some sites also allow users to provide more information about themselves such as interests, hobbies, favorite books or films, and even relationship status.

Representational state transfer <=SEP=> In computing, Representational State Transfer (REST) is the software architectural style of the World Wide Web. REST gives a coordinated set of constraints to the design of components in a distributed hypermedia system that can lead to a higher performing and more maintainable architecture.To the extent that systems conform to the constraints of REST they can be called RESTful.

Rounds (website) <=SEP=> Rounds (formally known as 6rounds) is a video-enabled real-time social network with collaborative browsing, chat, multi-player gaming and built-in social recommendation features that can be expanded through an open API. Rounds was founded in 2008 by Israeli entrepreneurs Dany Fishel, Ilan Leibovich and Dimitry Shestek in February 2008. Fishel is Rounds' CEO and Ilan Leibovich is the company COO.

Samepoint <=SEP=> Samepoint, LLC is a social media API aggregation and monitoring company. Headquartered in New York City. It provides data from thousands of social media websites via one API. These social media sources includes, but are not limited to Facebook, Twitter, blogs and Internet forum. The API also includes sentiment, analyzing whether a comment is positive or negative based on natural language processing.  The company launched a free social media monitoring search engine in 2009, www.samepoint.com.

Social Networks (journal) <=SEP=> "Social Networks" redirects here. You may also be looking for social network theory.Social Networks is a quarterly  peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on social network theory. The editors-in-chief are P. Doreian (University of Pittsburgh) and M. Everett (University of Manchester). It was established in 1979 and is currently published by Elsevier.

Social graph <=SEP=> The social graph in the Internet context is a graph that depicts personal relations of internet users. In short, it is a social network, where the word graph has been taken from graph theory to emphasize that rigorous mathematical analysis will be applied as opposed to the relational representation in a social network.

Social infrastructure <=SEP=> see also base and superstructureSocial Infrastructure is a general term referring to a class of internet services which allow websites or mobile devices to integrate social functionality into their application user experience.

Social media <=SEP=> Social media are computer-mediated tools that allow people to create, share or exchange information, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks.

Social media marketing <=SEP=> Social media marketing is the process of gaining website traffic or attention through social media sites.Social media marketing programs usually center on efforts to create content that attracts attention and encourages readers to share it across their social networks. The resulting electronic word of mouth (eWoM) refers to any statement consumers share via the Internet (e.g., web sites, social networks, instant messages, news feeds) about an event, product, service, brand or company.

Social network <=SEP=> A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations) and a set of the dyadic ties between these actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for analyzing the structure of whole social entities as well as a variety of theories explaining the patterns observed in these structures.

Social network advertising <=SEP=> Social network advertising, also social media targeting is a group of terms that are used to describe forms of online advertising that focus on social networking services.

Social network aggregation <=SEP=> Social network aggregation is the process of collecting content from multiple social network services, such as Instagram, Tumblr, Flickr, LinkedIn, Vimeo, YouTube, etc into one unified presentation. The task is often performed by a social network aggregator (such as Rime), which pulls together information into a single location, or helps a user consolidate multiple social networking profiles into one profile.

Social network analysis <=SEP=> Social network analysis (SNA) is a strategy for investigating social structures  through the use of network and graph theories. It characterizes networked structures in terms of nodes (individual actors, people, or things within the network) and the ties or edges (relationships or interactions) that connect them.

Social network analysis software <=SEP=> Social network analysis software (SNA software) is software which facilitates quantitative or qualitative analysis of social networks, by describing features of a network either through numerical or visual representation.

Social network automation <=SEP=> Social Network Automation refers to tools that are used to semi/automate the process of posting content to social networking and social bookmarking websites.  Tools can range from mostly manual and free to semi-automated tools which are either commercial standalone software or paid subscriptions.

Social network change detection <=SEP=> Social network change detection (SNCD)| is a process of monitoring social networks to determine when significant changes to their organizational structure occur and what caused them.  This scientific approach combines analytical techniques from social network analysis with those from statistical process control.  SNCD can be used to detect when significant changes occur in a network.

Social network consolidator <=SEP=> A social network consolidator is a web site or service that consolidates all of an individuals web site links into one easy to use interface. There are many social network, Photo, and Blog sites in which an individual might have a presence to express themselves. An examples would be: MySpace or Facebook account to express your personal interests, LinkedIn or Plaxo for business contact management, Flickr for web photo album, and Blogger for online Blog conversations.

Social network game <=SEP=> A social network game is a type of online game that is played through social networks, and typically features multiplayer and asynchronous gameplay mechanics. Social network games are most often implemented as browser games, but can also be implemented on other platforms such as mobile devices. The first cross-platform "Facebook-to-Mobile" social network game was developed in 2011 by a Finnish company Star Arcade.

Social networking potential <=SEP=> Social networking potential (SNP) is a numeric coefficient, derived through algorithms to represent both the size of an individual's social network and their ability to influence that network.

Social networking service <=SEP=> A social networking service (also social networking site or SNS) is a platform to build social networks or social relations among people who share similar interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. A social network service consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his or her social links, and a variety of additional services.

Socialtext <=SEP=> Socialtext Incorporated is a company based in Palo Alto, California, that produces enterprise social software. Its integrated suite of web-based social software applications includes microblogging, user profile, directories, groups, personal dashboards using OpenSocial widgets, shared spreadsheet, wiki, and weblog collaboration tools, and mobile apps.

Telephony Application Programming Interface <=SEP=> The Telephony Application Programming Interface (TAPI) is a Microsoft Windows API, which provides computer telephony integration and enables PCs running Microsoft Windows to use telephone services. Different versions of TAPI are available on different versions of Windows. TAPI allows applications to control telephony functions between a computer and telephone network for data, fax, and voice calls. It includes basic functions, such as dialing, answering, and hanging up a call.

Twitter <=SEP=> Twitter (/ˈtwɪtər/) is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets".Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them.  Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app. Twitter Inc.

Upcoming <=SEP=> Upcoming (formerly Upcoming.org) was a social event calendar website that launched in 2003, founded by Andy Baio. On October 4, 2005, Upcoming.org was acquired by Yahoo!. In April 2013, Yahoo announced the retirement of Upcoming.In May 2014, Andy Baio announced a Kickstarter campaign to relaunch the site, successfully raising the $30,000 goal.

Urturn <=SEP=> Urturn is a social network.Urturn initially launched in early 2011 as Webdoc by co-founders Stelio and Alexander Tzonis. The company raised $500,000 from family and friends before its series A funding round. Webdoc was relaunched as Urturn in January 2013 followed by an accompanying iPhone app in May.

Wallop <=SEP=> Wallop was originally designed as an Internet social network service from Microsoft Research. As a startup, the company behind Wallop was backed by $13 million from Microsoft and venture capitalists including Norwest Venture Partners, Bay Partners and Consor Capital.

Web 2.0 <=SEP=> Web 2.0 describes World Wide Web sites that emphasize user-generated content, usability, and interoperability. The term was popularized by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Dougherty at the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 Conference in late 2004, though it was first coined by Darcy DiNucci in 1999.

Web service <=SEP=> A Web service  communication between two electronic devices over a network. It is a software function provided at a network address over the Web with the service always on as in the concept of utility computing.

Windows API <=SEP=> The Windows API, informally WinAPI, is Microsoft's core set of application programming interfaces (APIs) available in the Microsoft Windows operating systems. The name Windows API collectively refers to a number of different platform implementations that are often referred to by their own names (for example, Win32 API); see the versions section.

Winsock <=SEP=> In computing, the Windows Sockets API (WSA), which was later shortened to Winsock, is a technical specification that defines how Windows network software should access network services, especially TCP/IP. It defines a standard interface between a Windows TCP/IP client application (such as an FTP client or a web browser) and the underlying TCP/IP protocol stack. The nomenclature is based on the Berkeley sockets API model used in BSD for communications between programs.

XQuery API for Java <=SEP=> XQuery API for Java (XQJ) refers to the common Java API for the W3C XQuery 1.0 specification.The XQJ API enables Java programmers to execute XQuery against an XML data source (e.g. an XML database) while reducing or eliminating vendor lock in.The XQJ API provides Java developers with an interface to the XQuery Data Model.

Zembly <=SEP=> Zembly (styled zembly) was a browser-based development environment from Sun Microsystems that enabled social programming  of applications for Facebook, Meebo, OpenSocial, iPhone web applications, and other social platforms, as well as web widgets.