The headline of the AppNexus job description jumps out with a question: Have you built RESTful APIs?? It’s the newest requirement for job listings, already known for their acronyms requiring OOP and MVC. You not only need to be able to consume web services. Now you have to have experience creating them.
For months, the Bing Maps site has been showing off what are essentially embedded mashups. You can search nearby tweets, FourSquare check-ins and other content from partners. Until now, it was merely a showcase of apps either written internally or by a company that Microsoft had blessed. Now, you have the opportunity to get your mashup included on Bing’s map.
Since we began tracking APIs and mashups, shopping has been a popular category. Last fall we noted 82 shopping APIs, though there are now well over 100. Similarly, we also list 601 shopping mashups.
This past week 15 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 24 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include After the Deadline, CitySearch CityGrid , Outside.in and Sensebot. The most often used APIs this week are Facebook, Google Maps and YouTube. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Shopping (3 APIs, 3 mashups), Search (3 APIs, 4 mashups) and Tools (2 APIs, 2 mashups).
It’s been over a month since an explosion on an off-shore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico started leaking millions of gallons into the ocean. As with other major events, developers create mashups to help make sense of and consume the massive amounts of news available. Below are three examples of such sites, with a focus on the latest crisis.
It’s perhaps the hottest service on the web and it’s definitely the most popular API recently. Twitter mashups continue to grow at a rapid pace, having just passed another milestone. We now list over 400 Twitter mashups in our directory.
Check your team, look up player stats and see the league’s latest transactions, all from Yahoo’s latest API. Fantasy baseball and football are both supported now, with options for hockey and basketball expected in time for their seasons. And the API supports OAuth, so developers could create new interfaces to almost every feature of Yahoo Fantasy Sports.
The movement to enable ordinary citizens, aided by civic-minded programmers, to plumb the depths of government data continues today with the launch of the Apps for Californians Contest. This new mashup competition from the State of California is intended to further the goals of transparency and access.
It will give a whole new meaning to platform shoes. Online shoe retailer Zappos is alpha testing its upcoming API. The platform has endpoints to search products and provide details, such as price and images. Pairing the API with Zappos’ affiliate program, developers could also make money when users buy products.
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