This past week 20 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 28 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API, Glue API, Google Maps Data API, Shizzow API, Yahoo Placemaker API, and the Yahoo Search Marketing API. The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps, Last.fm, and Twitter. And the top three categories of APIs used were: Social (4 APIs, 9 mashups), Mapping (4 APIs, 10 mashups), and Advertising (3 APIs, 3 mashups).
This week we had 7 new APIs added to our API directory including web services for file sharing via Twitter, payment processing, music community and sharing, travel tour and hotel bookings, as well as programmatic access to government 311 call center services. Here are details on each of these APIs:
Expect a mash pit, not a mosh pit, at this weekend’s Music Hack Day in London. Over 200 people will come together from the UK and across Europe for what the organizers call “the best industry to hack on, with the cleanest APIs and the most enjoyable content.”
Yahoo has moved forward with a great improvement to its Yahoo Query Language (YQL) platform (our YQL API Profile). As you may remember from earlier this year, YQL is a SQL-like programming interface to lots of Yahoo data and APIs that can also support non-Yahoo data as well (think of queries that look like: select id from flickr.photos.search where text=’car’). Until recently, the YQL platform only supported read operations, which meant that developers could only pull data from the web. Now Yahoo has expanded YQL to support INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE operations.
One man’s garbage is another man’s treasure. The same could hold true for the data behind your curb-side trash cans, according to David Eaves.
Last week saw a wave of developments in the opening of government data, coinciding with the Personal Democracy Forum in New York. The new CIO of the country, Vivek Kundra, announced a site called the IT Dashboard that shows government spending on IT contracts for many federal agencies, and includes detail on the progress and performance of those contracts.
Planning to blog your vacation? Why not geocode your blog posts, so that you can let visitors know where you are? That’s the idea behind a new tool for WordPress.
This past week 22 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 24 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Glue , Google Gears Geolocation, Netflix, and SoundCloud. The most often used APIs this week are Flickr, Google Maps, Twitter. The most common categories of APIs used are: eCommerce (3 APIs, 4 mashups), Social (3 APIs, 10 mashups), and Mapping (3 APIs, 8 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
In the past few days we’ve had 5 new APIs added to our API directory ranging from the new Sprint API, three APIs from Ericsson Labs, and the API for All for Good that helps you find local volunteer opportunities. Here are details on each of the latest APIs:
You may remember our earlier post on Yahoo Placemaker, a new ‘geo-enrichment’ platform that includes an API (our Placemaker API Profile) that can be used to make applications and data sets location-aware by determining the ‘whereness’ of unstructured content. Now, Yahoo developer evangelist Christian Heilmann has released GeoMaker, a new app that makes it dead simple to use the Placemaker API with any web site.
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