7 Real Estate APIs: What Housing Crisis?

John Musser, April 16th, 2008
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Despite the headlines about the ongoing housing crisis, there’s no shortage of new real estate-related APIs coming to market. We now have 7 real estate APIs in our directory.


Connecting Money and Politics: MAPLight.org

Kevin Farnham, April 15th, 2008

Just in time for the next election season, the team at MAPLight.org offer the MAPLight.org API which enables developers to “illuminate the connection” between money and politics by providing detailed funding information for candidates for political office.


Microsoft Virtual Earth Gets Vegas in 3D

Raymond Yee, April 14th, 2008

The release of version 6.1 of the Microsoft Virtual Earth API was announced late last week.


Google Chart API’s New Schematic Maps

Raymond Yee, April 11th, 2008

Graphic, schematic maps can very useful in a wide range of charting scenarios and thanks to a recent upgrade, now you can use the Google Chart API to create them.


Bad API Docs and The Quest for the UPS API

John Musser, April 10th, 2008

Can dealing with a difficult API provider be like trying to solve the puzzles in a classic text adventure game? In an amusing blog post entitled The Quest for the UPS API over at Ruby Discoveries and Idioms, the trials and tribulations of dealing with the United Parcel Service API has been parodied as an old-school adventure game.


Create PDFs via Code with Adobe Share API

Raymond Yee, April 9th, 2008

Adobe has updated Share, their service for document sharing and management, so that users can now convert uploaded documents into PDF and they also have exposed this functionality in the Share API.


Google App Engine: Your Apps in the Cloud

John Musser, April 8th, 2008

Google just significantly raised the stakes in the platform-as-a-service market with tonight’s launch of Google App Engine, a scalable, fault-tolerant web application environment that lets developers run their own apps on Google’s infrastructure.


Is Mashup a Dirty Word? Serena Video Gets 1 Million YouTube Views

John Musser, April 7th, 2008

It’s not often, or ever, that a video about web mashups hits number one and gets over a million views on YouTube. But that’s exactly what happened with the fun video “Just @#$% It!! What are they saying?”, produced by the team at Serena as a means to promote their enterprise mashup tool suite.


Seesmic Acquires Twitter Mashup Twhirl

John Musser, April 4th, 2008

As reported at TechCrunch, the popular Twitter client twhirl created by German developer Marco Kaiser has been acquired by video chat service Seesmic.


Tumblr API: Manage Your Online Scrapbook

Kevin Farnham, April 3rd, 2008

Tumblr calls itself “the easiest way to share yourself” online. With Tumblr, you create “Tumblelogs,” which are, essentially, online scrapbooks. Tumblr also offers an API.


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