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Feedly just got markedly more developer-friendly. The news aggregator has added a slew of new third-party apps to its platform and has also opened up its new cloud API to all interested parties, starting…now. According to a post on the company’s blog, it enlisted 50 developers over the course of half a year to create an elastic programming interface that lets people create apps in less than a week. Interested developers can download the API at the source link below. You can also visit Feedly’s page to check out the selection of currently available apps.

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Via: Android Police

Source: Feedly, Building Feedly

Firefox has certainly taken some pretty huge steps since Mozilla initially announced its “Phone for Apps” program back in May. Still, the browser maker knows there’s a lot to be done before the mobile OS becomes more of a household entity. To help it achieve that, Mozilla’s launching phase two of the “Phone for Apps” initiative, offering developers a Firefox OS device — in this case the Geeksphone Keon — in exchange for porting their HTML5 apps to the young platform. More specifically, this qualifies devs who have “already built and shipped an HTML5 web app and have the time now to port that app to the new Firefox OS.” Is this you? Then here’s what’s left to do: click the source below to peruse the rest of the guidelines, fill out the application and, if you’re amongst the chosen group, expect a confirmation to reach your inbox sometime thereafter.

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Via: TechCrunch

Source: Mozilla

It looks like you may well start seeing more links to products sold at Amazon in your Android apps. The company has just announced the launch of its new Mobile Associates API, which will let app developers hook into its popular Associates program to earn a kickback of up to six percent on all products sold through their apps. Those purchases can be made either entirely within the app or through an external link to Amazon, and the API covers both Amazon’s own Kindle Fire tablets as well as other Android devices (we wouldn’t hold your breath for iOS support). In announcing the new option, Amazon said that it hopes it will provide an alternative revenue stream to fully paid, ad-supported or “freemium” apps for developers, but it’d also obviously also get quite a bit in return itself if they fully embrace it.

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Source: Amazon

This afternoon the team at Amazon’s homepage have reported a temporary outage in service as they “make some improvements” to their service. This down time is not yet recorded officially in Amazon’s server status listing save a small blip in the North Virginia Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. There it’s reported that “increased API error rates […]

The Apple Developer Center has come fully back online today. This all connects back to the end of July when the system was taken down following an attempted intruder attack. The attack brought the possibility of “developers’ names, mailing addresses, and/or email addresses” being accessed however Apple had had said that “sensitive personal information was […]