Craigslist Blocks Mashup Listpic

John Musser, June 18th, 2007
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In another dust-up over a mashup taking data by screen-scraping, the classifieds listings giant Craigslist has blocked access to its site from Listpic, a useful mashup that enhances Craigslist listings by adding-in associated photos. If you check our existing Listpic mashup profile you can see it has been a very popular application and is 5-star [...]


New APIs: SMS and Textbooks

John Musser, June 15th, 2007

Just a quick note on a couple of new APIs listed in our directory this week. One comes from a major mobile telecommunications player and lets you interact with mobile services like SMS and WAP while the other comes from a smaller source but can be handy when shopping for textbooks.

Vodafone Betavine API: Vodafone, [...]


PayPal API Goes Mobile

John Musser, June 14th, 2007

The PayPal API has gone mobile this week with the announcement of PayPal Mobile Checkout. Using this new WAP 2.0-based platform mobile phone users can perform checkouts on mobile sites much like they do with PayPal on regular ecommerce sites. This picks-up from our report earlier this week on the new eBay APIs and shows [...]


2000 Mashups

John Musser, June 13th, 2007

What do you get when you mix 450 APIs, thousands of developers around the world, some hacking, and a lot of innovative ideas? You get a big universe of mashups with a sample of 2000 now listed here at ProgrammableWeb.
Since our launch in late summer 2005 we’ve seen a lot of growth in this [...]


eBay’s New APIs

John Musser, June 12th, 2007

eBay kicked of their eBay Developer’s Conference 2007 yesterday with a big set of product announcements. What’s new? From their announcement:

eBay Shopping Web Services: a suite of faster, more responsive APIs that makes searching on eBay significantly faster and allows developers to easily create buying applications
New JavaScript and Flash Developer Centers – making it easier [...]


128 Google Developer Videos

John Musser, June 11th, 2007

In case you missed Google Developer Day 2007 last month (our coverage here) it’s not too late to see and learn about all the interesting Google APIs, tools and other news covered that day. Why? Because Google’s used their YouTube property to publish these 128 videos from the event. Lots of good stuff covering everything [...]


New YouTube API Coming Soon

John Musser, June 8th, 2007

What’s hot online these days? Video. What’s hot in web mashups? Video. We continue to see a steady stream of mashups built with the YouTube API. We now have 123 YouTube mashups listed here. But this is an API that’s due for a change.
At last week’s Google Developer Day the folks from this team outlined [...]


Best Of: 3D Twitter, YouTube meets Last.fm

John Musser, June 7th, 2007

It’s been a couple of weeks since our last best of roundup Charity, Digg and Running, so we have some catching-up to do. Looking at innovative use of the APIs lately gives us a couple of unique applications using four APIs the twitter API, the YouTube API, the Poly9 FreeEarth API and the Last.fm API:

Twittervision [...]


New APIs: GPS, Hosting, People Search

John Musser, June 6th, 2007

Besides the new APIs from Google and new Yahoo APIs in the past week, there’s been some nicely diverse APIs added our listings. An API for management of on-demand hosting, a social people search API, and a web service API from the leading GPS device manufacturer.

SoftLayer API: On-demand hosting provider SoftLayer provides this innovative API [...]


Yahoo Search Marketing API Released

John Musser, June 5th, 2007

Yahoo yesterday launced the Yahoo Search Marketing Commercial API Program which provides multiple levels of developer access to their Panama ad serving platform. The Panama service itself was launched earlier this year and is designed to balance relevancy and bid price in serving ads. While anyone can use these APIs, the primary audience will be [...]


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