Here we go:
Connecting with more and more services is becoming do or die for new products. There's no point in creating the next big thing and then letting it starve to death in a locked closet. But the headaches involved with Facebook's
documentation, LinkedIn's XML, and pretty much every part of Google's APIs are hobbling the progress of the social web.
And then there's rate limits, constantly changing methods, and the huge inefficiency of having to write up calls for
each service separately to grab the same type of data. That's why everyone is saying "I'll connect to Facebook, and maybe Twitter, but that's it!"
The Windsoc API is a unified social API designed and built to handle getting data, posting data, and even sharing data
between two third-party services. Developers use their own keys and oauth callbacks, but Windsoc distributes the API
calls between apps. Windsoc calls are consistent, discoverable, and based on community standards. The next Facebook, the next Groupon, and the next Flickr will all be built to run on top of the services that came before. Windsoc provides the tools to make it happen.
We'll be ready to launch both the Windsoc API and the Windsoc Social Client (our showcase of API functionality at http://www.windsoc.co/) in time for Launch.
Coming another month from now is BetaRev, the first complete Beta Launch and Analytics tool, built using the Windsoc Social API.