The Guardian has launched the World Government Data website, which provides a single portal to government data from the US, the UK, New Zealand and Australia with a single interface.
In the wake of the Haiti earthquake Google has released an online application called Person Finder, which aims to provide a central database for those looking for or having information about anyone in Haiti.
The British government is opening up a wealth of UK government-held non-personal data with the official opening of data.gov.uk. Created with the help of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, data.gov.uk will publish government data using the Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model, making it easily accessible from a wide variety of mashups.
Nothing on a social website gets old faster than looking at the default avatar. That’s the square graphic meant to represent a user who hasn’t uploaded a photo. There’s nothing to be done about this, right? Think again: there’s an API that can give all your users a unique graphic.
If you’re looking for a traffic data web service, you probably have not been able to find one for free. Now mapping pioneer MapQuest is beta testing a service it says provides “real time traffic information related to incidents, markets and flow.”
It’s no secret that the Twitter API is extremely popular with developers, as evidenced by over hundreds of Twitter-based mashups in our mashup directory. Now developers working with the Twitter API have a new resource available to them by way of Chirp: The Official Twitter Developer Conference.
In addition to the 9 new APIs we outlined two days ago, there were another 7 APIs added to our API directory last week. These new APIs include a music recommendation service API, a remote code execution and memory storage service API, an API for a real estate pricing service, an API for twitter search and data retrieval, an API for museum collection access, a microblogging platform API, and a twitter analysis service API. Below is more detail on each of these new APIs.
When the popular location-based social network Foursquare launched, it quickly attracted users with its game-like features. Now, with over 170,00 users, the service has rapidly become a huge source of data about the popularity of businesses and locations. In November, Foursquare gave developers access to some of this data by releasing an API (check out our Foursquare coverage here). Several applications that used the API were available at launch, with many more on the way. From shopping to games, here are four applications that really show off the potential of Foursquare’s API.
This past week 13 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 22 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Meaningtool and Ordnance Survey OpenSpace. The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps, Google Visualization, and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (3 APIs, 6 mashups), Shopping (2 APIs, 3 mashups), Other (2 APIs, 3 mashups).
This was a busy week in new APIs, so busy in fact that we now have a total of 1600 APIs in our directory. What’s new? The latest include a keyword search marketing API, a text analysis and extraction API, an online calculator and measurement conversion API, an API for online contact entry and data parsing, a media hosting service API, an API for a SaaS based business intelligence service, a location based advertising API, and an API for a women’s content sharing network. Below are more details on each of these new APIs.
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