TwitterLove: Applying the Social Graph API

John Musser, February 18th, 2008

Want to visualize someone’s “following” list on Twitter? Thanks to this creative application of the Google Social Graph API you can.


2 New APIs Compete on Social Games

John Musser, February 15th, 2008

Game application providers Social Gaming Network (SGN) and Zynga have just launched a platform for developers looking to create games that run on the major social networks like Facebook.


Mashup for Printing Public Domain Books

John Musser, February 14th, 2008

One of the more unusual mashups add to our listings lately is our entry for Public Domain Reprints, a non-profit service that lets you take public domain books on sites like Google Books and the Internet Archive and print them on Lulu.com.


LibraryThing API: Mashup The Library

John Musser, February 13th, 2008

One of newest API directory listings is the LibraryThing API, a programmable interface to the popular book lovers site LibraryThing.


Microsoft and Yahoo: Comparing the APIs

John Musser, February 11th, 2008

Whether or not the Microsoft-Yahoo deal goes through, it’s worth noting that both of these companies now take developing open web APIs as a key part of their strategy.


Mashups Break the Microsoft Mold

John Musser, February 10th, 2008

popflylogoThe New York Times has a piece today by John Markoff on Microsoft’s mashup builder Popfly entitled Mashups Are Breaking the Mold at Microsoft.


Yahoo’s New Live Video API

John Musser, February 8th, 2008

Just as soon as we wrote about 30 Video APIs the total went up to 31 video APIs with tonight’s launch of Yahoo Live.


30 Video APIs

John Musser, February 8th, 2008

As we reported not long ago we’re seeing lots of growth in the number of video APIs, and the past week has been no exception.


Scale Facebook Apps With Amazon Services

John Musser, February 7th, 2008

Amazon and Facebook have clearly been on the leading edge of two forces driving the web as platform – cloud computing and exploitation of the social graph. Now they have joined forces.


Reuters Releases Calais Web Service

John Musser, February 6th, 2008

Last week Reuters introduced its Calais metadata generation web service, an open API available for commercial and non-commercial use


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