This past week 27 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 40 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include CitySearch CityGrid , Gowalla and Infochimps . The most often used APIs this week are Flickr, Google Maps and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Social (4 APIs, 13 mashups), Search (4 APIs, 5 mashups) and Internet (4 APIs, 5 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
Ever wondered what impact your active presence on the Web has? For example, when you write a blog post or tweet about something, you may be interested in how many tweets your post receives and how many users can potentially reach your post. There are many ways to measure your social impact, however, to cover all social channels and platforms can be difficult to achieve. A Silicon Valley based company BackType builds an analytics platform that helps you understand your social impact at large.
BackType’s major goal is to give users a very comprehensive view of all social media. Today, it supports over one million sites and networks including Twitter and Facebook. When your app wants to get all the data that comes from Twitter, you can use the Twitter’s Streaming API which is the subject to various limits. BackType, however, belongs among those few that have the unlimited access to the full Twitter firehose. It can access more than 50 million tweets a day coursing through Twitter.
It’s a new milestone for our third most popular API. YouTube went past 500 mashups, a distinction shared only by Google Maps (over 2,000 Google Maps mashups) and Flickr (about 550 Flickr mashups). Earlier this year we chronicled the Top 10 YouTube Mashups of All Time, so we’ll instead take this as an opportunity to [...]
It sure beats instant coffee. A major change to Google’s results page has created an intense interest in interfaces that provide immediate feedback. Google Instant, which updates search results as you type, inspired YouTube Instant, which many developers have emulated using a number of different APIs.
The battle is over and the victors have been chosen. Wufoo, an Internet application that helps anybody build online forms that make it easy to collect data, has just announced the results of its unusual API Contest.
Recently, blogging service Posterous thought it would try and help ease the burden of moving from other places on the web to its blogging platform by developing a bunch of migration tools. All of these tools were built on other services’ open APIs and designed to go in, grab your content, and republish it through Posterous maintaining as much metadata as possible. Things were fine until photo-hosting service Twitpic caught wind and cut of Posterous’ API access.
The favorite news aggregation site of programmers now has an API. But it didn’t come directly from YCombinator, the company that runs the site. Instead, it was built by a community member who published it while working on a side project. The data is scraped from Hacker News and essentially has the blessing to operate as an unofficial API.
With 25 million business listings over nine countries, open data company Factual has taken a first step toward creating a place database to which anyone can contribute. With location-based applications now more popular than ever, the data is extremely valuable to developers. Factual is providing it via its API, currently for free.
You ever wonder how Google is able to figure out just what the heck you’re talking about when you search for “blue album cover” and you’re not talking about the first Weezer album? Google is able to use your previous search, as well as a plethora of other sources, to predict what it is you are most likely trying to find. Pretty cool stuff, once you get past how uncomfortable that may be.
It might be difficult to light all the candles on the cake when the New York Times celebrates its 160th birthday next year. The venerable newspaper isn’t exactly acting its age, remaining hip as the Grey Lady provides 13 New York Times APIs, from search access to its own archives to data collections used both internally and by outside developers.
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