When you want animated maps or zippier feedback than Google’s JavaScript mapping API can provide, you can use the Flash Maps API. Yes, even Google acknowledges that its popular, full-featured platform can’t do everything. Using the Flash API used to mean you needed to know Flash. Now, you can get the benefit, but still program in JavaScript.
Wordpress have recently enabled a web service that allows blogs to be read and posted via a Twitter compatible API.
Google has released a new API for Fusion Tables, a Google Labs app that allows users to import, integrate, analyze, and visualize data in a variety of ways. The new API allows developers to programmatically perform a variety of tasks, including data import and export (more at our Google Fusion Tables API Profile). The API itself is integrated with several other Google APIs, including the Google Maps API and the Google Visualization API. In fact, developers can also leverage App Engine to easily develop data processing and analysis apps that easily integrate with various other Google APIs.
There are so many jobs listed for developers familiar with the Paypal API on GetAFreelancer that the site has a category dedicated to it. And that’s not all–there are over 300 API-related listings on the site, which connects freelancers with people who need programmers and designers.
This week we had 14 new APIs added to our API directory ranging from a new music playlist API (which we covered in our report on 8Tracks Debuts API At Music Hack Day Boston), a web service for storing and reading ePub-format books, a useful travel API for predicting airline flight delays, a new life sciences API, a web service API for synonyms, thesaurus and antonyms, an API for generating PDF files, an API for creating avatars, an API that gets you access to a legal dictionary, a project management API, as well as a variety of other new APIs. Below is a summary of each of these 14 new APIs:
This past week the new mashups added to our mashup directory used 15 different APIs. The most often used APIs this week are Flickr, Twilio, and Twitter. And the most frequently used types of APIs were Social (4 APIs, 6 mashups), Music (3 APIs, 4 mashups), and Bookmarks (1 API, 1 mashup).
According to a BBC report, UK’s Royal Mail will make its postal code database available to the public in April of next year. This follows a rogue API that provided the data, but was mum about where it came from. That site, ErnestMarples.com was named after a former postmaster general.
FlavorPill are running a competition for the best mashup showing off your neighborhood. First prize is $3500, but the contest ends soon.
MySpace, the social network heavyweight looking to get back some of their old momentum is making a big splash with developers this week. On one hand, they announced an innovative, open platform for real-time stream access and more. But will that be overshadowed by a complete lack of care for the community that built applications on top of Imeem, the music service MySpace acquired and quickly shuttered?
All Twitter APIs will soon use HTTP error code 400 for calls beyond your rate limit. One of Twitter’s most popular services, the Search API, currently uses error code 503. You’ll want to update any of your applications that use Twitter search so that they’re looking for the right code.
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