Barcelona-based 3scale Networks has just announced on its blog that it made the switch from private to public beta for its API infrastructure management system, which enables Web API providers to set up and manage developer and client relationships for their Web Services, monitor usage and enable payments.
3scale features an online marketplace where resources are provided for developers who use Web Services to discover relevant services and set up usage agreements with providers. 3scale’s Quality of Service monitoring keeps track of actual uptime and quality of the contracted Web Service.
3scale launched earlier today with an initial collection of 14 services ranging from search engines and mapping to translation services including Corank, Crawlerinfo, DataNibble, Happenr (full disclosure: I’m a Partner with Oxynade, the company behind Happenr), Ipoki, ISBNdb.com, MaxMind, Swoogle, TaWithYou and Weatherbug.
3scale’s systems themselves are powered by Amazon’s EC2, S3 and Cloud Computing services. Signing up is free of charge and there is no usage fee outside of transaction commissions.
The startup was one of the DemoPit companies that demonstrated at TechCrunch50. The company will also be showing off its wares at the upcoming Le Web conference in Paris, where it was selected as one of the presenting startups.
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Ought there not be a mention of Mashery here? They’ve been super successful in doing things quite related to this and I think they blazed the trail afaik. Cool to hear about more entrants into this market, though.
A very Reuters looking logo.
What is the point of this?
Mashery are doing great stuff in the space too - but 3scale has a different take - basically trying to make it easy for anyone wanting to manage access to their API to set themselves up.
Basically you can think of it like paypal + google analytics for APIs.
Things are still a bit rough around the edges, but we’re working on it
API’s is the way to go, it’s surprising that no other startups are targeting the “infrastructure” part. Kudos for the newcomers!
@Steven, thanks for the clarification. Like Marshall, the first thing I thought of was “how does this compare with Mashery?”
That’s great! Congratulation to the 3scale team, they are doing a superb job.
For us, it is the opportunity to expand our business among the developers space, and make our applications wide available.
They will become a success soon!
UDDI v.4
Met these guys at TC50. Pretty sharp bunch. Definitely worth looking at for certain types of APIs.
Congratulations to Steven, Martin and the 3scale team on the launch!
Cheers -
Oren Michels
CEO
Mashery
Thanks Oren, all - looking forward to the first mashery / 3scale service mashup! We talked to a lot of great companies during the beta phase and loads have APIs on their roadmap so I think 2009 will be a great year for new APIs to play with.
all the best,
steve
Lots of potential here, keep your eye on this one…
Congrats on the launch!
very interesting. Many people are interested in getting API access to my site http://www.HearWhere.com, and i was considering partnering with a company that has a sales channel for their api, and experience in the space.
Solo developer, so makes it difficult to do everything myself, but maybe 3Scale is the solution for me.
I’m definately going to look into it further.
Congrats to the team, great idea