Presenters: Dan Murphy and Stephanie Seegmuller from Pearson, Steve Ellis from Metia, and Greg Taylor from TigerSpike
Time: 11:15 – 12:15, Friday 30 September

Content APIs enable mobile apps to easily access rich multimedia content that was previously locked inside corporate walls. Organisations like Pearson and other publishers now provide APIs to previously inaccessible sources. We’ll talk about how content rich APIs can power great user experiences, examine two very different examples of mobile apps, and describe experiences using the Pearson APIs found at http://developer.pearson.com. Also we’ll go through the code used to access the APIs, so you can see how to use the APIs and perhaps earn a prize in this weekend’s hacking competition.

This session will be given by Dan Murphy and Stephanie Seegmuller from Pearson, Steve Ellis from Metia, and Greg Taylor from TigerSpike. Steve Ellis is the founder of Metia, the company which developed the ShowMe London app to allow people to lookup attractions using the Dorling Kindersley (DK) Eyewitness Guide to London and plan trips around the capital. Greg is Design & UI/UX Director from TigerSpike. He led the development of the Business Essentials app, which provides an innovative reading experience by combining content from the FT Press with Facebook APIs. Dan and Stephanie are the dynamic duo behind the recently released Pearson APIs which, as The Next Web put it, “help inspire creatives to come up with new products ew ways of using, displaying and blending content”.