The Yahoo Pipes team hasn’t been sitting still since their big launch earlier this year. Over time they’ve been upgrading the service and this week they announced a couple more useful new features. The first is a Web Service Module that lets developers write custom extensions that integrate directly in the Pipes service. To demonstrate [...]
No shortage of new APIs lately. Here’s a set of recent additions to the PW Directory that give you news aggregation, social media sharing, and business SMS messaging:
Daylife: The news aggregation service Daylife now offers their own API. A showcase example is shown below: the Treehugger RGNDX, or Green Index, that lets you track media [...]
Quick update on some of the more interesting new mashups (directory is up to 2200 mashups using 250+ APIs):
Dugg Analytics: Rich visualizations, metrics, and stats for Digg. Get charts by category, user, and time.
Zuckerbucks: Zuckerbucks are points that you can use like play money on Facebook. They have no cash value, but you can send [...]
Ever want to programmatically query Wikipedia? It’s a tempting dataset with over 1.6 million articles but yet no official API. While there’s been a rumor that the Wikipedia team will supply an API at some point, for now you can use an API we just listed here: the DBpedia API. It’s a project headed by [...]
The Facebook Platform is quietly moving beyond its initial, somewhat limited “mock ajax” roots for platform UI development. They’ve quietly released a beta version of FBJS, Facebook JavaScript. FBJS is an interesting twist on how to allow richer intereactivity without requiring developers to resort to using iframes (which are inherently more isolated from the full [...]
Just as Google is helping Google Maps developers monetize their mashups, Amazon is giving EC2 API developers a new way to make money. How? With their new Paid AMI support program. It lets creators of EC2 AMIs, or Amazon Machine Images, a means for reselling their AMIs and earn an ongoing commission. This means customers [...]
How about an API that harvests feelings from blogs? Or an API of weather forecasts? Or an API for sending phone messages via the web using text-to-speech? These are three of the most recently added entries to our API directory.
We Feel Fine API: Good to see an intriguing, fun API like this once in awhile. [...]
In one of the more significant API launches in awhile, Amazon just officially released their Flexible Payment Service, FPS. It’s a powerful payment service that supports credit cards, bank account debits, and Amazon Payments balance transfers. The service, in limited beta now, competes directly with the PayPal API, the Google Checkout API, and other payment [...]
In a somewhat quiet but noteworthy move the Google Maps API now gives developers an officially sanctioned way to overlay advertisements directly onto their maps. And share the revenue. This was announced by Google’s Pamela Fox in the maps API newsgroup. You access this new functionality through an API object named GAdsManager (see the reference [...]
No sooner did we outline ongoing mashup contests than Tibco launch their own contest, this one called the Ultimate Ajax Challenge. The competition is in support of their new PageBus product. We’ve now added this to our Contests page where there are 4 ongoing mashup contests.
PageBus builds on the company’s core strength in enterprise [...]
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