API Leader Mashery Captures Application Developer Trends with Developer Pulse

Mashery API Developer Pulse Results! May 5, 2010!

Question 1 What are the best API’s out there for developers? Best Buy/Remix # of % of Selections Responses Responses CafePress Foursquare Google 283 34% Yahoo Flickr Google Twitter 183 22% Other Amazon 107 13% Other 105 13% Yahoo 49 6% Facebook 38 5% CafePress 26 3% Amazon Flickr 14 2% Best Buy ../ Remix 12 1% Twitter Foursquare 11 1% • Total Registration Survey Size – 502

Question 2 What are most helpful to you as developers? Question 2 Code Samples Clear API 400 License terms in plain English SDK Toolkits 200 Docs 0 Other # of % of Selections Responses Responses Code Samples 357 33% Clear API License terms ..in plain English 267 25% SDK Toolkits 244 23% Docs 182 17% Other 22 2% • Total Registration Survey Size – 542

Question 3 Do you build services and apps with APIs... Question 3 For both For your own personal projects For your employer: 30+ For your employer: 6 to 30 For your employer: 1 to 5 For your employer 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 • Total Registration Survey Size – 550

Question 4 Why do you work with APIs? Question 4 # of % of Selections Responses Responses Fun, Fame & Glory 267 37% My employer pays me to 257 36% Make extra money outside of my day job 120 17% Other 70 10% Fun, Fame & Glory My employer pays me to 300 200 Make extra money outside of my day job 100 Other 0 • Total Registration Survey Size – 530

Question 5 What programming languages are you using? Question 5 # of % of Python Selections Objective C Responses Responses JavaScript .Net/VB JavaScript 346 24% PHP 339 24% Ruby Flash/Flex 206 15% Java 153 11% Ruby 122 9% .Net/VB 95 7% Java Objective C 86 6% PHP Python 69 5% Flash/Flex Other 0 0% • Total Registration Survey Size – 530

Question 6 What platforms do you build applications for? Question 6 Online/browser Mobile Online/Widget Desktop (Silverlight, AIR) Hardware # of % of Selections Responses Responses Online/browser 445 41% Mobile 346 32% Online/widget 165 15% Desktop (Silverlight, AIR) 94 9% Hardware 34 3% • Total Registration Survey Size – 540

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