This time a more technical blog-post:
As the guys who deal with the Google-AdWords-API probably have noticed, a new version (V11) of the AdWords-Webservice was released on Oct 11, 2007, so V10 and V11 are co-existing at the moment. Especially the redesigned reporting-system with the new DefinedReportJob-feature provides more flexibility in retrieving exactly the stats you need.

After the API-team was able to solve some critical bugs in the beginning, the service now is stable enough to be integrated in existing system-architectures.

We already did that (and it works fine for us), because our customers deserve the most up-to-date products and services offered by Refined Labs.

Nevertheless there are lots of guys that are not happy with the new release, because their well-working-software is affected by the way, the retrieval of IDs for campaigns/adGroups/criterionKeywords/… is handled now by the various types of reports.

The API-team responded promptly to all the complaints and assured that there would be an internal talk about how these problems might be solved.

The important background-information is: It’s planned to shut down the currently running V10 in Feb, 2008.

I am very curious to see, if the API-team is able to cope with the current complaints till then and/or if the shutdown of V10 will be postponed and/or the users have to accept the effort to modify their existing software in bigger dimensions, and/or …

Tino

Btw: If you think about applying for a JAVA-job at Refined Labs, don’t forget to mention your perfect Nexuiz-skills. At the moment, the Java-backend has no chance against the Ajax-GUI-Guys