<story><title>Google Photos API</title><url>https://developers.google.com/photos</url><text>Use the Google Photos API to build smarter photo and video features for your product.&lt;p&gt;Developer site: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developers.google.com&amp;#x2F;photos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developers.google.com&amp;#x2F;photos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;With the API you can help users transfer, share and bring their content into your app more easily (including features like auto-organized categories and creating link-shareable albums).&lt;p&gt;API is now launched to General Availability, with official client libraries and sample apps for Java &amp;amp; PHP (and more in the works!).&lt;p&gt;Large app integrations are also encouraged to join the Google Photos Partner Program. Check the developer site for more info.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>andrewstuart</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s alot of comments here about Google shutting down its services.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s what Amazon does with products it no longer wants:&lt;p&gt;Consider SimpleDB, one of the first of the Amazon web services and effectively dead. But still has a live page, and still works and is online &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;aws.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;simpledb&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;aws.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;simpledb&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;But is not listed in the Amazon Web Services product lineup:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;aws.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;aws.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Presumably if you had built something on it many years ago (which I did), it would still be working today. Maybe the lesson for Google is that instead of killing things, leave them working but without future development.  And instead of radical pricing change, make pricing change for new customers and leave the old ones on the existing pricing.  Sure people might be unhappy about the changes but they are less likely to be enraged and lose trust in Google.&lt;p&gt;This post from Amazon Web Services CTO &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.allthingsdistributed.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;10-lessons-from-10-years-of-aws.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.allthingsdistributed.com&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;10-lessons-from...&lt;/a&gt; says:&lt;p&gt;5. APIs are forever&lt;p&gt;This was a lesson we had already learned from our experiences with Amazon retail, but it became even more important for AWS’s API-centric business. Once customers started building their applications and systems using our APIs, changing those APIs becomes impossible, as we would be impacting our customer’s business operations if we would do so. We knew that designing APIs was a very important task as we’d only have one chance to get it right.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Photos API</title><url>https://developers.google.com/photos</url><text>Use the Google Photos API to build smarter photo and video features for your product.&lt;p&gt;Developer site: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developers.google.com&amp;#x2F;photos&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;developers.google.com&amp;#x2F;photos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;With the API you can help users transfer, share and bring their content into your app more easily (including features like auto-organized categories and creating link-shareable albums).&lt;p&gt;API is now launched to General Availability, with official client libraries and sample apps for Java &amp;amp; PHP (and more in the works!).&lt;p&gt;Large app integrations are also encouraged to join the Google Photos Partner Program. Check the developer site for more info.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>highace</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Use the Google Photos API to build smarter photo and video features for your product&lt;/i&gt;... until we deprecate the API in a couple years time and leave you up shit creek.</text></comment>