It’s demo time for the two dozen startups from incubator Y Combinator. Though there are many that have yet to launch publicly, the focus of the program is to get quickly from idea to product. It’s notable how many have used APIs, either to boost their features or as a forward-thinking move to invite developer collaboration.
Flat maps have a hard time communicating elevation changes, but now you can access the data to visualize as you want. Google Maps added two elevation services, bringing you the meters above sea level for any point on earth.
Put your social project on the map. Or, use those already listed to find something new in an area you care about. The OpenAction Map is a well-done full-screen map mashup that shows positive work based on the location that is being impacted.
Peter Coffee, Director of Platform Research at Salesforce.com, has published a compelling post about “The Incredible Importance of Open APIs” over at the Force.com blog. In case you may have forgotten, Salesforce.com’s web APIs are an integral part of the company’s offerings, with a variety of internal and third party products that rely on these APIs for literally millions of transactions a day (in fact, by January, 2008 Salesforce.com had already served 24 billion API calls).
There is nothing more satisfying than sharing that once in a lifetime shot with the world, except maybe seeing that it has been viewed by a few thousand people. These kinds of stats have been collected by Flickr for quite some time, and now they are available to developers thanks to some new functions added to the Flickr API.
Many Open Source projects host their repositories with Google Code, where anyone can download the source. Now their bugs and feature requests can be just as open, with the read/write IssueTracker API.
Every site needs promotion, right? That means your new site could use a quick boost from what others have already created. This post will cover some marketing APIs, as part of our Site in a Box series.
The Twitter API continues to see incredible growth and adoption, including Wordpress and Tumblr both emulating the API, in turn providing access to their services through standard Twitter clients. It has been suggested that this adoption of the Twitter API by outside groups marks the beginning of a movement that will see it adopted as a standard for microblogging platforms.
This week we had another 15 new APIs added to our API directory. This latest set includes an API for a single sign-on solution, an email marketing API, a video creation platform API, an API to transfer money over Facebook, and the service we wrote about earlier this week that to help you find mutual Twitter followers. More details in the full post.
This past week 12 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 27 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Bandsintown, BBC Music and Billboard. The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps, Google Maps Flash and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Music (7 APIs, 8 mashups), Mapping (4 APIs, 10 mashups) and Search (2 APIs, 2 mashups).
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