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Apigee is extending its console to be integrated into a provider's Web framework.

SoundCloud, PayPal and LinkedIn have been the first to integrate the Apigee service that lets developers explore an API from within the providers development environment and share it as a social object.

Apigee-to-Go is an iFrame of the Apigee console that embeds into the provider's CSS, allowing the site to be skinned and in the process make the experience transparent to the user.

The personal finance startup Wesabe may be dead, but its code lives on. Former team member Brian Donovan recently open sourced the framework used to connect with bank websites and download statements in a machine-readable form. This might not sound impressive, but with thousands of banks just in the U.S., all with different website setups, entire companies like Yodlee have been built around solving this problem.

By open sourcing the code, Wesabe makes it possible for hobbyists, researchers and starving startup founders to build new and innovative personal finance tools. The code itself is pretty bare bones; Brian admits he'd hoped to spruce it up before release but his new job didn't leave much time for a labor of love. What's crucial though is that it's a battle-tested system with broad coverage, and has a simple system for adding support for new institutions.

Today Instagram is adding real-time notifications to its API. What this means in practice is that developers will now be able to get instant notifications when new photos are added by specific users or with specific tags, geo-tags or a more general location. Developers can now add subscriptions to these notifications to their apps.

For example, in the announcement Instagram's Kevin Systrom uses the example Foodspotting importing all of a user's photos from Instagram whenever the tag #food is used.

This morning TwapperKeeper, the Twitter-based service that allowed users to create and export archives of Tweets around certain words or hashtags, announced that it would be shutting down a number of key features of the service to remain in compliance with Twitter's Terms of Service.

According to the company's blog post, the archiving and API features will be shut down by March 20. While TwapperKeeper may be just one service among many to be forced into compliance, is its fate indicative of a larger movement in the Twitter ecosystem?

Last week hosted search provider IndexTank announced its new API that enables developers to add search to their applications or build search engines from data sets available on the Web. Documentation can be found here. The API uses an elastic, pay as you go model.

IndexTank was founded by former Inktomi software architect Diego Basch. It features real-time feed indexing, instantly available data, location based search and more.

Twitter announced this afternoon that it has reinstated API access for the developers of Twidroyd and UberSocial for Blackberry (formerly UberTwitter). The news follows Friday's decision by Twitter to suspend the apps due to privacy and trademark violations.

Twitter updated its blog post from Friday that announced the suspensions, saying that "Our initial review indicates that steps have been taken to remedy the violations for these applications." Once the apps are updated, says Twitter, "you'll be able to download their updates to access Tweets again on these applications."

The open data service Factual has just updated some of its datasets and has also released a new iPhone SDK. The Los Angeles-based startup describes the move as another step towards its goal of "comprehensive, accurate, and accessible local data."

Factual is an open platform for developers and publishers to build apps with its datasets, accessible through its APIs or via a ">download. The downloads, in CSV format, are free for smaller developers as part of this release.

The RootsTech conference has challenged developers to mashup social media and family history APIs in the hopes that developers will recognize genealogy as rich area for exploitation.

Here's the challenge: use any open social media API, like from Flickr or Facebook, mash it up with any of the APIs from the five genealogy companies that offer them to create something which "demonstrates increased value to family historians."

Last night, Twitter made official what many members of the developer community had long suspected - there would be no more whitelisting for data-hungry apps. For some developers, this either means that they have to come up with creative work-arounds or, for others, that their projects are dead in the water.

So why did Twitter kill the exception to the rule and what does it mean for the future of Twitter apps and the developers who create them?

Etsy just announced an intriguing offer: a free four-week class on basic Web programming centered around its own API. The class is being offered through Codelesson.com and doesn't require any programming or HTML experience. This sort of course probably won't produce the next computer science superstar, but this seems like a great idea for getting more people coding.

Most programming classes focus on the basics and learning general skills. By focusing on learning the skills needed for a specific scenario, the instructors may attract a group of people who may never have learned programming otherwise.