Lately we’ve seen some fun shopping mashups that aren’t just simple price comparison apps. Instead these use the APIs–mostly Amazon Product Advertising API–to track your collections, keep up-to-date with entertainment and find products in a fun, conversational way.
Google focused on application management with its latest release 1.3.8 of App Engine, its platform-as-a-service offering. Along with performance improvements, Google added a handful of useful administrative tools, which make it easier for developers to see their application’s status.
If you use the Twitter API in your application, a recent announcement at the Twitter Development Talk Google Group could have a bearing on the stability of your integration. It has to do with the way Twitter plans to enable the new ID generator. What were once numbers will become text, in order to get around a limit to the size of numbers that some JavaScript parsers can handle.
User authentication in apps is a pain, even if you’ve built an authentication system dozens of times. Forms, sessions, user tables, validation, password management, the list goes on in the seemingly never-ending to-do list for setting up a simple signup, login, and logout system for your app. OpenID company Janrain makes it easier, building on top of social networks.
It’s no secret that the Google Maps API is incredibly popular. Our directory lists over 2,100 Google Maps mashups, but that’s obviously just a subset of all the sites powered by the mapping platform. And now we know how many sites that is. According to Google Developer Advocate Mano Marks, there are 350,000 websites incorporating Google Maps. And, of course, Google now has many other geographic APIs.
“Follow the money.” That was the advice given to journalists Woodward and Bernstein in the 1976 film All the President’s Men, as they unraveled the machinations behind Watergate. While an ordinary citizen’s motives may be less sensational, we all have the right to know where our government officials are getting their financial support. The New York Times is helping enable that research with their Campaign Finance API.
Cycling in the UK is not only a popular past time but and also a real commuting choice. The UK has numerous defined cycle routes and many towns and cities have designated cycling lanes and more recently London introduced a cycling scheme fondly referred to as Boris’ Bikes after the current Mayor of London. Since more and more people are using a bicycle as a preferred method of transport, and with cyclists having a different selection of routes, on top of the ordinary street network, than alternative transportation methods, it makes sense for there to be a need for a bicycle journey planning web application and API.
The URL shortening services are increasing by the day. Big names like Facebook and Google have entered the game that has been dominated by other services, chief among them being bit.ly. Announcing its second API contest, bit.ly is inviting developers to make innovative use of its bit.ly API and offering some exciting prizes. The range of applications in which you can employ a URL shortening service is limitless and bit.ly is looking for the best entries to showcase its utility.
This week we had 22 new APIs added to our API directory including a desktop notification service, personal information management service, stock index information service, web hosting service and television information service. Below is more detail on each of these new APIs.
Adobe Wave API: Adobe Wave is an Adobe AIR application and Adobe hosted [...]
This past week 20 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 30 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Eventbrite and our own ProgrammableWeb API. The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps, Twitter and YouTube. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Search (4 APIs, 4 mashups), Social (4 APIs, 10 mashups) and Shopping (4 APIs, 7 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
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