This week we had 30 new APIs added to our API directory. We continue seeing a lot of growth in new APIs this year and it brings our total size of our directory to 1921 APIs. Some of the most interesting new entries include a UK postal address lookup API, and API to convert IP to timezone, and a realtime feed search API.
This past week 14 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 31 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include AddThis Sharing Endpoints, Amazon CloudWatch, Cicero, Google Maps Elevation, TownMe Geo and Yahoo GeoPlanet. The most often used APIs this week are Amazon eCommerce, Google Maps and Google Maps Data. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (8 APIs, 16 mashups), Internet (6 APIs, 6 mashups) and Social (3 APIs, 4 mashups).
You might not expect a company nearly 160 years old to innovate its industry. Perhaps that’s why Thomson Reuters is looking to developers to create the next big thing for financial professionals. To get there, the company is sharing mountains of data via its new Knowledge Direct API and offering $25,000 in prizes for its app contest.
YQL is a service from Yahoo that provides a single SQL like syntax through which provides a consistent way to access not only Yahoo services, but also any number of third party services as well. Until now YQL has existed side by side with the traditional REST style APIs, but in a recent post covering some changes to their Music API, Yahoo indicated that they will be pushing YQL more aggressively.
Do you have an idea on how to aid writers with spelling, context and grammer and like the idea of a few extra dollars? Wordnik, an online dictionary service, has announced a competition to create a mashup using their API.
Facebook has just introduced several new elements for its platform at F8, the annual conference for Facebook developers. The web has been abuzz about the implications of Facebook’s latest move towards making its platform available on as many web sites as possible.
Open APIs allow data to be repurposed and visualized in new ways. Some of the best mashups then let you see the data change over time or aggregate it in one place. The mashups below are all about tracking data, whether it be the price of an item on Amazon, the links you post on Twitter, or a company’s SEC filings and subsidiaries.
In addition to the the new APIs we highlighted earlier this week, there are plenty of other new entries in our API directory. Some other notable new APIs include a location based advertising API from Placecast, an open platform for data sharing from Socrata, and a new service from Sony Ericsson for music identification and music chart access.
Sure, we live in networked times, but the phone still plays a big role. In about a dozen digits, you can reach anyone in the world with a phone. Now there’s also a way to get at much of the metadata that goes along with it, such as where a phone number is likely based. That and more is being made available for free via the Cloudvox Digits API (our Cloudvox API profile).
Developers are another step closer to being able to reproduce bestbuy.com on their own site usings the retailer’s Remix API (our Best Buy Remix API profile). Most recently, Best Buy added reviews to the API, meaning developers now have access to a major component of visitor buying decisions.
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