As we noted in our last API roundup, we continue to see an increase in the rate at which new APIs are being added to our API directory. Five of these new APIs include an API for a service for point-of-sale (POS) entry from mobile and online, a photo and video uploading API, a mobile video sharing service API, a hosted SQL database web service, and a hosted service for Microsoft Silverlight apps. Below are more details on each of these new APIs.
This past week 14 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 30 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Bandsintown, Collecta, IP Location and OneRiot. The most often used APIs this week are Box.net, Twitter and YouTube. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Search (7 APIs, 8 mashups), Music (4 APIs, 5 mashups) and Social (3 APIs, 8 mashups).
Before paintings hang in museums, the artists put brush to canvas out in the real world. A new site is looking to tie the two together with geocoded art. However, rather than show the location where you can see the artwork, it is instead mapped to the location depicted in the work.
The mashups included below all clarify mountains of information. Using APIs, they gather the data and show it to the user in a way that makes sense. In one case, it’s a bar chart of emotions expressed over Twitter and other realtime search engines. Another takes your LinkedIn connections and displays them graphically. The other brings a handful of APIs to your iPhone, responding to your voice.
If you’ve done much searching for locations using web tools–and who hasn’t by now–you’ve likely discovered some errors along the way. Sometimes a map marker is down the street from the actual location. Geocoding, the process of converting an address to latitude/longitude coordinates, can be an inexact science. A new geocoding service from MapQuest (our MapQuest API profile) aims to help you improve where you place that marker with Address Point Data.
Stories of record labels sicking their legal teams on individuals aren’t new. However, it’s worth noting the skirmish between label-owned Vevo and Muziic because it is unclear if the third-party site did anything wrong.
Gowalla, the location aware social networking service, has announced the release of their first public API (our Gowalla API profile). This will help them keep up with other location-centric social services like Foursquare’s new API.
It’s tax time and, if you’re like me, you are going through your annual reflection, wondering if there’s a better service you could use. There are a number of options available on the web for amateur bookkeepers. Here are a select few that have APIs.
Google Buzz is a new service that takes aim at Facebook and Twitter by providing the ability to post links, photos and status updates directly from your Gmail account. And right off the bat Google has released the accompanying API.
Stack Overflow, the innovative and popular programming question and answer service, is planning to open an API. In keeping with their community-centric approach, they are asking developers for input on what features should be included in their API.
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