The New York Times has been gaining momentum in opening up its vast stores of information via APIs such as the TimesPeople, Article Search, and Real Estate APIs and mashups such as Represent (our coverage on Represent). Now the media giant has taken another step forward by implementing a new service that leverages its Newswire API (our Newswire API Profile).
Zillow has released an application for iPhone users that builds on their Zillow API, the Microsoft Virtual Earth API and the iPhone’s GPS capabilities. The Zillow iPhone app detects your location and shows data about nearby homes, including market values, photos, and which ones are for sale. It’s a great example of a mobile mashup application that uses multiple APIs in meaningful location-aware context.
This week we added another 9 open APIs to our API directory. As with last week’s new APIs, they cover quite a range. In yet another example of an API-on-an-API there’s the TweetPhoto API for photo sharing on top of Twitter. There are 3 new telephony-related APIs from Orange, the new music event-centric Gigulate API, and the Amplify API that aims to extract semantic meaning from text and HTML documents via natural language processing. Here’s an outline of those as well as the other new APIs from this past week:
How many APIs did it take to build the 18 new mashups added to our mashup directory? It took 37 different APIs. Some of the less often seen, unique, and newer APIs used include: Alexa Top Sites API, Bit.ly API, Calais API, Cligs API, DocuSign Enterprise API, Freebase API, idiomag music API, and New York Times Best Sellers API. The full list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
Chart APIs are useful and popular, and Google knows how to do them well, so they’re continuously adding more features and options for customization to their Visualization API. The Google Code Blog recently highlighted a few of the newest features.
Brady Forrest over at O’Reilly Radar has a new post that highlights an unofficial release of preliminary API for Latitude, Google’s geo-location sharing service. Although the API has not been formally identified by Google, the API can be seen in use in two new apps: the new Google Location Blog Badge and Google Talk Location Status.
In our most recent summary of new APIs From Flight Times to Concert Tickets, we looked at the first 7 new APIs added to our web service directory last week (at an average of 2 new APIs per day). Continuing with this somewhat unusual mix of mostly smaller APIs, here’s a rundown of the other 7 new APIs from this past week:
GitHub, the very popular online hosting service for Git-based development projects, has released a second version of its API (our GitHub API Profile). Although the API is still in development, the various types of methods offered by the API provide a good base for developers to further integrate with GitHub.
The New York Times’ (NYT) list of web services includes some impressive APIs that make it easier to access and track information about a range of interests, including best selling books, real estate, people, articles, and the United States Government. The NY Times development team has been incorporating feedback from users in order to make changes and improvements on a regular basis. Most recently, NYT developers answered a request from users to add information about bills and speeches to its Congress API:
Besides adding 33 new mashups this week, it was also a busy week here for new APIs, with an average of 2 new APIs added to our API directory per day. Here’s a rundown of the first 7 from this past week:
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