An application programming interface (API) is a way for two different pieces of software to communicate with each other. In your WordPress plugins and themes, you’ll often want to pull data from or send data to a third-party service that has an API. In this talk, Randy will explain the terminology you need to know to get started, share best practices and techniques for integrating with APIs, and walk through two real-world examples. You’ll leave with code snippets to help you get started integrating.
26. Asynchronous JavaScript and XML:
Technique used by the browser to
retrieve data from a server in the
background without interfering with
the existing page
Wikipedia: Ajax, http://trhou.se/defineAJAX
55. OAuth
An open protocol to allow secure
authorization in a simple and standard
method from web, mobile and desktop
applications.
OAuth, http://oauth.net/