Etsy, a marketplace for buyers and sellers of handmade products, has launched an API contest. Developers have a chance to create winning applications that could reach the more than 5 million Etsy members and at the same time win some cash awards.
The World Bank, as part of its Open Data Initiative, had announced in April that it would bring global economic and development data to the web for the world to use. At that point in time, they had laid down a roadmap to make more statistics and indicators open by mid 2010. This is a reality now and the result is a new and improved World Bank data website.
Have you ever received one of those questionnaire emails? You know the ones I mean, 20 questions (or more), desperately seeking to find out inane details about your life and hopefully bring some email servers to a halt? I’m sure you’ve had one of those in your inbox at some point. That time is over. Now you can do it on Formspring.
Our directory lists 216 mashups under the real estate category. While these mashups provide their own take on browsing and evaluating real estate listings, several of them lack critical school data, which is an important part of a family’s housing decision. Education.com plans to change all of that via its API.
There are no secrets on the Internet. And now, thanks to StealthModeWatch, it’s even easier for people to find your secrets–if you’re a company with outside investors. The service, which also includes an API, digs through public records to expose new investments and the people attached to them.
Last week we added a Canadian yellow pages service to our directory. It’s called, simply, Yellow API, which made us wonder: what other colors are in our API directory? The short answer: quite a few.
This week we had 11 new APIs added to our API directory including a gps data sharing service, fitness tracking service, social television service and two real-time push services. Below is more details on each of these new APIs.
This past week 26 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 29 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include AlternativeTo, Amazon Marketplace Web Service, Google Health, Gowalla, Pusher, Thounds and Tribe HR. The most often used APIs this week are Box.net, [...]
Developers looking to access Canadian local search content in their applications have their tasks made much easier now, thanks to Yellow API, a new service in beta from YellowPages.ca.
Travel information service, Travelport is about to release what many are calling a “game-changing” Universal API. The new API hopes to make tons of information more easily available to travel agents and travel-related companies by funneling several information sources into one, all encompassing, API.
©ProgrammableWeb.com 2012. All rights reserved.
Terms of Service | Privacy Policy
