It can be hard to find good news regarding employment thanks the recent financial downturn. Apparently no one told Amazon, who have a post on their Amazon Web Services (AWS) blog announcing that they have lots of positions to fill.
Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is vital to any successful website. The team at SEOmoz are experts in this field and now offer a number of premium SEO tools including the recently released Open Site Explorer, which provides a wealth of information on backlinks and link popularity. Now the same information available through Open Site Explorer can be accessed via their new API.
Radio stations are always looking for the “phrase that pays.” That’s passé. When it comes to local businesses on the web, it’s praise that pays. Whether it’s Yelp reviews, FourSquare check-ins, or customer feedback provided in Intuit’s ongoing Love A Local Business competition.
Google has released a new geocoding web service that is sure to bring a smile to map mashup developers working with the Google Maps API. Announced earlier this week on the Google Geo Developers Blog, version 3 of the popular geocoding web service has been released, with several improvements and new features that will make it easier geolocate addresses. The new geocoding web service shares many of the geocoding improvements included with v3 of the Google Maps API.
If you’re looking to run a successful developer program, you should probably pay attention to Mathys van Abbe. He’s the founder of Mobypicture (our Mobypicture API profile), which has just celebrated its 500th developer.
The US Army has joined the ranks of government agencies courting developers by announcing a new competition called “Apps for the Army” (A4A). The competition aims to promote some fresh ideas and practical web and mobile applications for use within the military:
For several years millions have shared the places they’ve been using the Where I’ve Been website and Facebook application. The site also has an API (our Where I’ve Been API profile), which allows for much of the same functionality, such as searching countries, marking it visited and adding content such as a story or photo.
Have you had to pick someone up from the airport only to end-up doing several laps of the airport because the flight was late? This sort of setback due to arrival delays is one of those modern day inconveniences that FlightCaster and their FlightCaster API hope to eliminate.
Once again this week we had a variety of new APIs added to our API directory. Some notable new entries include an API for a corporation accountability research service, mobile identification API, a mobile network lookup service API, Google’s new power consumption meter API, and the Guardian’s Politics API to UK political resources. Below are more details on each of these new APIs.
This past week’s new mashups in our mashup directory combined 28 different APIs. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Google OpenID, Heyzap, Menu Mania, Microsoft adCenter, RescueTime, RPX, Windows Live ID Web Authentication and Yahoo Search Marketing. The most often used APIs this week are Box.net, Facebook and Google Ajax Search. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Security (4 APIs, 4 mashups), Shopping (3 APIs, 3 mashups) and Video (3 APIs, 3 mashups).
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