{"id":11580,"date":"2010-12-06T15:37:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T06:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=11580"},"modified":"2010-12-06T15:37:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T06:37:27","slug":"mygengo-opens-45000-api-lab-to-support-third-party-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/mygengo-opens-45000-api-lab-to-support-third-party-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"myGengo Opens $45,000 API Lab To Support Third Party Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/mygengo_logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"91\" \/><br \/>\nHaving raised <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/web-based-translation-start-up-mygengo-fundraises-usd585000-from-ten-angel-investors\/\">$585,000<\/a> in angel investments this summer,\u00a0Tokyo-based human translation start-up <a href=\"http:\/\/mygengo.com\">myGengo<\/a> has set aside $45,000 to support third-party developers with their new<a href=\"http:\/\/mygengo.com\/services\/api\/\"> API Lab<\/a>. The API Lab is a place for\u00a0developers to experiment with the myGengo API, build plug-ins for third-party platforms, and win cash prizes.\u00a0While myGengo has offered\u00a0crowd-sourced\u00a0translation through their <a href=\"http:\/\/mygengo.com\/translate\">homepage<\/a> &#8211; the plug-ins developed by the API Lab will allow consumers to translate their content from within their own platforms. myGengo is offering up to $1,400 for the first working plug-ins on over 40 platforms including WordPress, Facebook, Salesforce, and iPhone.<br \/>\nAccording to myGengo CTO Matt Romaine, &#8220;We&#8217;re excited about the &#8216;API\u00a0Lab&#8217; initiative because it&#8217;s a fantastic opportunity to reward the developers who are building\u00a0connections to the myGengo translation API. Developers are working with the API in all kinds\u00a0of contexts \u2014 e-commerce, blogging, Twitter and more \u2014 and we want to support these grass-roots efforts. Over the next year, we expect to see hundreds of applications using the API, many\u00a0of them using the foundations created through the API Lab program.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe API Lab represents an effort by myGengo to scale their service capacity while making it easier for end-consumers to use. As the\u00a0crowd-sourced\u00a0translation space is becoming increasingly crowded with competitors\u00a0like <a href=\"www.onehourtranslation.com\">OneHourTranslation.com<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conyac.cc\">Conyac.cc<\/a> in Japan, myGengo is trying to tackle some larger issues in a more multi-lingual web, like this API Lab\u00a0initiative\u00a0or their <a href=\"http:\/\/mygengo.com\/string\/about\">String<\/a> feature which Asiajin has <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/25\/mygengo-string-site-translation\/\">previously covered.<\/a><br \/>\nInterested developers can find more detailed information by visiting the API Lab. (<a href=\"http:\/\/mygengo.com\/services\/api\/\">English<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/ja.mygengo.com\/services\/api\">Japanese<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having raised $585,000 in angel investments this summer,\u00a0Tokyo-based human translation start-up myGengo has set aside $45,000 to support third-party developers with their new API Lab. The API Lab is a place for\u00a0developers to experiment with the myGengo API, build plug-ins for third-party platforms, and win cash prizes.\u00a0While myGengo has offered\u00a0crowd-sourced\u00a0translation through their homepage &#8211; the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/mygengo-opens-45000-api-lab-to-support-third-party-developers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">myGengo Opens $45,000 API Lab To Support Third Party Developers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[258,1791,2489,3496,3798,4039],"class_list":["post-11580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-api","tag-japan","tag-mygengo","tag-startup","tag-translation","tag-web","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}