Attention developers, hobby-coders and Internet citizens alike: drop.io's API version 2.0 is now in public beta!
For the past few months our team has been working very hard to build out a more robust and fully-featured 2nd version to our API. Our goal with this new version was to give wider access across the application and allow developers to get deeper into the stack. With the first version of the API, we opened a fairly large part of the application but knew we needed to add on this. We now allow access to things like drop.io Manager, Add via URL and our streaming, real-time features. We knew that our development community needed more control on these features so we added a ton of new parameters and a new PHP helper library, adding it to the Javascript, Ruby and C# libraries we already provide.

With the added functionality we knew that we had to step up our development documentation so that's exactly what we did. We built out a brand new developer homepage (http://dev.drop.io) with a ton of code examples, demo apps and easy-to-follow step-by-step tutorials. We knew that making the documentation as accessible as possible was very important.
The new dev page covers everything from the "How & Why" of the API to drop.io's unique approach to identity, content and distribution.

A big part of this project were the demo applications and we're happy to say that our Hack-a-thon resulted in quite a few of these. We've listed some of these under the Features Apps menu with more to be released soon. We've got:
PicPoster, a Facebook app that lets you upload photos from drops directly to Facebook photo albums
Nibl.es, a rich-media bookmarklet app that lets you collect photos and text from any webpage with just two clicks
Supportable, a real-time customer support solution
You can check all of them out here: http://dev.drop.io/featured-apps/
Our focus was to build this version out to be easy to understand for anyone interested in drop.io's potential, regardless of development experience, making the development process as accessible as possible. Take a look at what we've put together!
http://dev.drop.io
-drop.io Team
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