Earlier this month the Sunlight Foundation announced the winners of their Mashup Congress contest. See our earlier coverage Mashup Congress, Win Money for some background. The judges included Esther Dyson, Craig Newmark, and Jimmy Wales. In the end the contest was a success and as they note “Each entry proved the case for more transparency [...]
On Tuesday this week the official YouTube API Blog launched with their first post. No news there yet, but is surely a good place to keep an eye on if you’re developing with their API. We have updated our YouTube API Profile to include both the blog and the YouTube API Google Group.
As of [...]
Want more APIs to work with? We’ve been adding an average of one-per-day over the past two weeks. Three of the news ones added earlier this week give you programmatic access to astrology forecasts, bus and subway routes, and a way to convert HTML to PDF. Here they are:
The Astrologer: As they note “We built [...]
If you want to write mashups in Java these libraries might save you a lot of time. Just as with the 12 Ruby Resources we looked at last week, these resources can greatly simplify access to major APIs. Some are officially supported by the API providers themselves and others are independent, open source efforts.
Facebook Java [...]
Out of the 224 mashups tagged “shopping” and the 49 mashups tagged “visualization” there is an interesting intersection of a dozen mashups sharing both those tags. Some use the Amazon E-Commerce API, some the eBay API, or the Shopping.com API or even non-shopping APIs like the LastFM API. Some of the mashups are useful and [...]
As follow-up to this week’s post on APIs for chat, lending and payments, we’re continuing to see a variety of interesting new APIs added to the ProgrammableWeb directory. Here are the latest two entrants and a new API contest:
Poly9 FreeEarth API: FreeEarth is slick 3D Flash-based web globe that’s also an interesting example of an [...]
Mpire, the meta-shopping service that uses APIs from eBay, Amazon.com, Shopping.com and others, today launched a new widget service with variety of interesting shopping widgets. The Mpire widgets are unique in that they leverage their database of trillions of shopping transactions to show trends in a variety of product categories. People who install the widget [...]
New API listings week cover presence, peer-to-peer lending, and payment authorization. Here’s the details:
Jaiku: The Finnish presence service that offers “a way to connect with the people you care about by sharing presence updates with them on the Web and mobile.” They offer REST and XML-RPC interfaces to get and set user presence information. One [...]
Mike Pegg over at Google Maps Mania had an interesting post the other day on 4 ways to use YouTube to promote your mashup. As Mike notes “Harnessing the power of YouTube alongside your Google Maps mashup can help build interest and usage, as well as drive new users to your site.” He goes [...]
Want to build a mashup using Ruby? To help you get started we’ve rounded-up a dozen Ruby libraries for open web APIs that can help you get a head start. Most of these are Ruby wrappers — often as gems — that simplify coding for specific APIs and sometimes across APIs.
YouTube API Wrapper: A Ruby [...]
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