The geo mapping platform ecosystem has grown a little more as the competition between Google Maps and Bing Maps just got a lot more interesting. It’s been less than a week since we covered the release of a variety of new features for Bing Maps, including the addition of new StreetSide panoramic imagery similar to that used in Google Maps StreetView. At the time, it seems that Bing Maps was making a move to “catch up” with Google Maps in terms of immersive street-level panoramic photos. And now Google has countered back with the release of “aerial perspective imagery” similar to the Bird’s Eye View imagery used in Google Maps.
For more than 150 years, The New York Times has meticulously indexed its archives, giving it one of the most authoritative news vocabularies ever developed. Now this archive has been linked to the open knowledge bases DBPedia and Freebase.
Music mix sharing site 8tracks now has an 8tracks API to search and play mix tapes. Developers can access the mixes, which each contain at least 8 tracks, by tag, simple search, popularity, those added recently, or randomly. The site announced its API at the recent Music Hack Day Boston.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) last week ran a competition that involved identifying the location of 10 fixed red balloons throughout the United States. It was an exercise designed to see how people can self-organize on the Internet and how information disseminates through social and viral networks. It was won by MIT, taking just 9 hours to find 10 red balloons placed all over the United States.
This past week 22 new mashups were add to our mashup directory and 32 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Factual, FanFeedr Sports News, Google Finance Portfolio, Google Safe Browsing, Issuu Search, Posterous, and Reddit. The most often used APIs this week are Google [...]
This week we had 7 new APIs added to our API directory. These latest entries include an API for music artists data; an API for finding restaurants, menus and reviews; another SMS API; an API to get addresses from postal codes; an API to dynamically generate QR and DMX codes; an API for mobile expense tracking and management; and a new multimedia API. Below is more detail on each of these new APIs:
It’s a busy time of year, so the new mashups we’ve chosen to feature will all save you time–in some way. Bloggers will appreciate the stock photography plugin built-in to their WordPress installations. Those too busy to blog may find themselves picking up the phone to post voice messages. And everyone will want to take care of holiday shopping with a monster shirt. Right? Read one to learn more about these fun, useful mashups.
Twitter announced a beta version of its mobile site with a cleaner look, new features and a backend powered by the microblogging site’s popular API (our Twitter API profile). The new site is running in tandem with the current mobile site, though Twitter plans to phase out the old site. What makes us excited is how they built it.
Microsoft has announced its new Facebook SDK, which allows developers using Microsoft technologies to quickly create web client (via Silverlight), web server (via ASP.NET) and desktop (via WinForms and WPF) applications that harness the power of the Facebook API.
There’s a new way to get thousands of local points of interest into your web maps: the CloudMade Data Market Place. There’s a fee for using the data, but otherwise it’s as easy as the standard CloudMade API (our CloudMade API profile). For a few hundred dollars per year, you can add any restaurant in the U.S., hospitals in the UK to your map, or one of about 80 datasets.
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