This past week 14 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 25 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include ESRI ArcGIS JavaScript, Hyves, Meetup, PeoplePond, and RadioTime. The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps, Twitter, and YouTube. And the most often types of APIs used were Mapping (8 APIs, 11 mashups), Social (3 APIs, 4 mashups), and Music (3 APIs, 3 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups.
Here’s a quick rundown on 5 of the newest APIs added to our API directory. As usual, it’s a wide range. The latest include APIs for Burning Man, Cheezburger, soundtrack search, New Zealand digital media, and email marketing. Here are more details on each of these new entries:
The free evening newspaper The London Paper made headlines itself last week, for two seemingly contradictory reasons. First, New Media Age reported the paper is launching an API. Then, further reports said it will cease publishing in less than a month.
Today at the Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington, DC: the Federal Government is announcing they will be implementing OpenID and Info Cards as part of its open government initiative. The looming adoption of these two standards paves the way for citizens to use existing accounts and online identities (such as their Yahoo or Google accounts) to participate in various government web sites. This also means that citizens can customize their experience on government websites without needing to reveal any personally identifiable information – including passwords.
The New York Times has announced that its increasingly popular Congress API has been upgraded to include additional features and data (more at our Congress API Profile).
The popular picture-sharing empire behind I Can Has Cheezburger lets you view, caption and share funny images. You can do this via its sites and, the now, thanks to their API, you can do it via code (technical details at our Cheezburger API profile).
Catching-up on some of the latest APIs in our API directory, here are 4 of note. One API lets you leverage semantic web subject identifiers in your apps, another gives you an easy way to define and lookup Twitter hashtags, the next gives you access to an audio and video search engine, and the fourth provides access to a service for custom map data and metadata. Here are the details on each of these:
This past week 15 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 12 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Norway Weather, PeoplePond, We Feel Fine. The most often used APIs this week are Flickr, Google Maps, and Twitter. The most frequently types of APIs used were Reference (2 APIs, 2 mashups) and Social (2 APIs, 6 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
What’s this, Microsoft pushing an open source programming language? Indeed, there is an integration kit that gives developers a boost creating a database-powered Bing Maps application.
Do you use Twitter? Then you really must find out where you fare in these Twitter mashups, which use your tweets, your followers and a number of other factors to determine your rank (or so the following services want you to do). The results are indisputable, but if you don’t like what one has to say, try another!
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