This week TechCrunch announced an open API for its CrunchBase database of tech organizations and related information.
Some exciting media API news this week as National Public Radio (NPR) has announced that it will release a public API in the coming days. NPR, an internationally acclaimed media production and distribution non-profit, is best known for a wide array of non-commercial radio programs.
Last.fm has announced a major upgrade to their API.
ESRI, a leading GIS software provider, has released a public version of its ArcGIS JavaScript API that allows developers to integrate GIS functionality with web applications.
Today Yahoo announced the contest winners for the best uses of its SearchMonkey platform. SearchMonkey is a cornerstone of the Y!OS (Yahoo! Open Strategy) that we previously reported on when it was announced in April.
Yahoo has taken a major step in the evolution of search APIs with today’s release of BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service). The BOSS platform lets developers build their own full-blown custom search applications on Yahoo’s index of the Internet, the same infrastructure that underlies Yahoo Search.
In the past two weeks, video related mashups have been the largest category of new mashups added to the ProgrammableWeb mashups catalog. In the two weeks ending on July 6, 25% of new mashups were in the video category.
Tangler, an online network of discussion forums, recently announced their new API. The Tangler service takes traditional discussion forums to a new level, by allowing anyone to easily set up a discussion forum that can grow to include hundreds of topics and thousands of users.
Can we exploit the extraordinary ability that humans have to read faces to make sense of abstract data — by rendering data as concrete facial features? That’s a question raised by a recent ProgrammableWeb Mashup of the Day Pubmed Faceoff.
As reported by the BBC, the UK government has established a task force, aptly named the Power of Information Task Force, to lead a massive data sharing effort. The task force was established in March of this year by Cabinet Office Minister Tom Watson with the goal of fostering social and economic progress by enabling widespread access to government data.
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