This past week 13 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 26 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include ChartLyrics Lyric, ConceptShare, Google Sites, Menu Mania, Thumbalizr, W3Counter and Whois. The most often used APIs this week are Box.net, Flickr and Google Maps. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Tools (4 APIs, 4 mashups), Search (2 APIs, 2 mashups) and Social (2 APIs, 3 mashups).
Do you remember a time when keeping track of your social networks meant only checking your inbox? Neither do I, but Microsoft is working on a solution that will eventually allow Outlook to integrate with a number of social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook and MySpace with the Outlook Social Connector.
Those trying to enjoy tape-delayed Olympic coverage will want to avoid NBC’s Tweet Tracker. The mashup looks for Olympics-related terms, such as names of sports or athletes, then aggregates them to determine the most popular over a configurable period of time.
It’s come a long way from the Sears and Roebuck mail order catalog. Yet, the new API might bring wrench and dishwasher company Sears the closest it’s been to its origins in decades. Developers can now search the entire product database of Sears and Kmart (the companies merged in 2005).
A number of companies are making a push to move traditional desktop applications into the cloud. Programmers have not been left out of this revolution, with several sites offering IDEs in a web browser. Here are 5 online IDEs.
Last August was when Twitter first announced it would offer geocoded tweets. With it, user locations are tied to their updates. That feature was rolled out in November. Two months later comes word that it’s getting very little use. TheNextWeb reports that less than one-fourth of one percent of all tweets are geo-tagged. For every 430 messages that pass through Twitter, only one has a location–very, very few. Why? Read on for a few potential ideas.
Another day, another API… Keeping on top of all the APIs that have been made public to support the plethora of web services that are available these days can be a full time job. Yahoo thought so too, and so they created the Yahoo Query Language (YQL), which provides access to hundreds of web services with a single SQL like syntax. And now YQL supports Google Buzz.
Digg have just released a new writable API which integrates OAuth authorization and allows users to digg/bury stories from an external site.
YouTube have announced that that they are making a notable change to their YouTube API. The API, which returns results in both XML and JSON, is getting an upgrade on the JSON side, and the change is different enough that they are giving the format a new name JSON-C.
The Flickr Developer Blog have posted an interview with Simon Willison, one of the developers of the Flickr mashup WildlifeNearYou.com.
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