Got an idea for a new website? It’s easier than ever to build a first-class application by offloading some of the harder stuff to other services. Read on and discover that your new site is already halfway built.
Cloud computing is big right now, but the sheer number of options, and the lack of interoperability, can be an issue for developers. There are a number of projects that can reduce, or even eliminate, some of these problems by exposing the functionality of a number of cloud service providers through a consistent interface. Here is a list of 7 such projects.
As we noted the other day, we’ve seen an increase in the rate of new APIs added to our API directory. Some of the latest entries include a new job search API, an API for accessing book metadata in RDF, a movie clip API (our recent coverage), and an API for researchers in archaeology, museum collections, and other field sciences. More details on each of these below:
So and So is now following you on Twitter. Who? How did they find me? Why might I want to follow back? That’s been a common bit of internal dialogue for me lately. Often the answer lies in our mutual friends or followers. Social networks like LinkedIn and Facebook make this easy. Not so with Twitter, which is why I was excited to find Intersect.
Perhaps that Bing-Yahoo search deal is paying off. Even though Maps and Flickr aren’t known to be part of the deal, Microsoft has connected its Bing Maps to the Flickr API in a unique way. It overlays geotagged Creative Commons photos over its current StreetSide imagery, as shown in the video embedded below.
Online stalking has gone programmatic. People search engine Whoozy has a person search API. With it, you can get results for a name from social networks and blogs, in addition to standard search engines.
A late night and the spark of an idea were all Alex Stone needed to get started on his site to track and share DVDs amongst friends. And the project took him less than 10 hours, because all the content, from DVD titles to images and descriptions, come from Best Buy Remix (our Best Buy Remix API profile).
This week we had 23 new APIs added to our API directory. These include an ecommerce platform API for building online stores, an API for a local business directory search, a social conversation aggregation API, an online image and graphics editing service, and an online document collaboration, storage and publishing API.
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 Clipta, Drop.io, EditGrid, Foxrate, Google OpenID, Ifbyphone, Infosniper.net, Qype, RPX and Windows Live ID Web Authentication. The most often used APIs this week are Google Checkout, Google Maps and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Security (4 APIs, 4 mashups), Shopping (3 APIs, 3 mashups) and Mapping (2 APIs, 3 mashups).
Microblogging status messages may be small, but they pack quite the mashup punch. Twitter (our Twitter API profile) itself makes up 8% of all mashups on Programmable Web. So, it’s to be expected that two of the three status message mashups below use Twitter. The other connects to Facebook.
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