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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Hi everyone,<br>
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I saw this in my inbox this morning and thought I would pass it on:<br>
<p style="margin:20px auto;width:500px"><strong>Application Programming Interface: A fancy way of saying "do more."</strong><br>
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Need a map for your site? Don't code your own — use an API!<br>
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APIs let you talk to other web apps like Google Maps and Twitter so that you don't have to build from scratch. Simply borrow another app's functionality with an API. Easy.
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<p style="margin:20px auto;width:500px"><strong>Learn how to create a web app that can:</strong>
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- Send text messages with <a href="http://link.codecademy.com/4f10ae5262047742c9a10a8dt8yo.5t1k/UPVd4m-oU6u7dkG4B71ff" target="_blank">
<font color="#ef6035">Twilio</font></a><br>
- Pull videos from <a href="http://link.codecademy.com/4f10ae5262047742c9a10a8dt8yo.5t1k/UPVd4m-oU6u7dkG5B5f2b" target="_blank">
<font color="#ef6035">YouTube</font></a><br>
- Search for songs on <a href="http://link.codecademy.com/4f10ae5262047742c9a10a8dt8yo.5t1k/UPVd4m-oU6u7dkG6Bed32" target="_blank">
<font color="#ef6035">SoundCloud</font></a><br>
- Get the latest stories from <a href="http://link.codecademy.com/4f10ae5262047742c9a10a8dt8yo.5t1k/UPVd4m-oU6u7dkG7B56b7" target="_blank">
<font color="#ef6035">NPR</font></a><br>
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<p style="margin:20px auto;width:500px">The possibilities are as wide as the sky.<br>
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More info here: <a href="http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/apis" target="_blank">http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/apis</a><br>
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Cheers!<br>
Darci<br>
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