Amazon.com publishes guidelines that tell others how to get a service to perform a task such as call one another, or share data. These guidelines allow developers to write their own applications and Web sites that can send Amazon orders. These guidelines are called:
A) folksonomies.
B) APIs.
C) mash-ups.
D) markup languages.
E) service level agreements.

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The guidelines that Amazon provides are called APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), which allow others to interact with their platform and services. APIs provide a set of rules and protocols that developers can use to communicate with a web-based software application or web tool.

Amazoncom Publishes Guidelines That Tell Others How to Get a Service