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Originally Posted by BestXXXPorn
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shame you can't rep!
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Originally Posted by BestXXXPorn
There's a big keyword out there in the development crowd and that's "RESTful API". Enabling authorized affiliates or even users access to public information that can be manipulated by developers to fit whatever model they'd like is where it's at. The reason being; you can make custom tools all fucking day long but you are limited to what your company can produce. If you open up the raw data you have an entire world looking to develop new ways to display and use your data to promote you. You are no longer limited to what you can produce...
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Yup, I recently added this to the current folks I'm with and while it's only used by 3 affiliates, I can assure you they are the ones saying "thank god!". They continuously request new features, formats in API output, but I don't mind implementing since I know how damn useful an API can be to an affiliate that knows what he's doing (or who has coders on board) - automation to the max.
And how much time did it take to add that? bof, whole of 1 day... just add in a new presenter, whether it be rss/xml/json/php to output the data and voila.
The developed member areas actually use the same services to populate the members area - how can it be any easier? No premade affiliate software, no premade member area software - all handled via the one main program with the different layers added on top for affiliates and member areas.
