Even though our latest round-up of new APIs was only a few days ago, there have already been a dozen new APIs added to our API Directory in the past four days. This new set of web services includes APIs for job seekers, e-commerce payments, notifications, mobile media services, url shortening (again), and a government API from down under. Here are the details on 7 of the newest APIs:
It may seem like lately geo APIs and mashups are getting a lot of coverage here on ProgrammableWeb, and for due reason: the geo API providers have been busy. From the release of v3 of the Google Maps API to the release of Yahoo!’s Placemaker “geo-enrichment” platform, there has been a lot of activity on the mapping front in the last few weeks.
Geolocating your users can create a better experience, but it can also be used in devious ways. For example, cathysteeth.com claims to have a cosmetic dentistry solution discovered by a mom. And wouldn’t you know it, Cathy lives in your home town. And your home town.
While social networking sites already help users maintain connections with friends and interest groups, a recent trend in web services has been the growth of semantic technologies that connect people across different websites. New York startup AdaptiveBlue offer a service called “Glue,” which uses semantic web techniques to understand the content of popular web pages that describe lifestyle objects such as books, music, and movies. It then lets you do many useful, in-context things based on that data, such as learn more about the movie or actors on IMDB, buy the soundtrack on Amazon, read the historical background on Wikipedia, and a interact with a variety of other sites and services.
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