This week we had 34 new APIs added to our API directory including a web-based e-signature service, development platform for im robots, directory assistance service, url shortening tool, geographical location service, bank routing number verification and New Zealand auction site. Below is more detail on each of these new APIs.
This past week 19 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 BatchBook, BBC Music, Drawloop, Google Latitude, GreatSchools, New York Times TimesPeople, Tweet Scan, Walk Score and Wordnik. The most often used APIs this week are Google Maps, Tropo and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (6 APIs, 13 mashups), Music (3 APIs, 3 mashups) and Social (2 APIs, 5 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
So far, Paul Hunkin’s bot has bought him two sets of camera batteries, a gift bag, a USB extension cord, a 1955 stamped envelope and a smattering of other items. Hunkin, you see, decided to bring an XKCD cartoon to life by programming a bot that automatically purchases cheap items using a New Zealand auction site’s Trade Me API… because packages are exciting.
As part of the Woodstock for Cloud Developers, we at ProgrammableWeb are co-hosting the Cloudstock Hackathon on December 6th. Cloudstock is a free one day conference in San Francisco hosted by Salesforce for cloud developers of all kinds. The hackathon will be emceed by David Berlind and will include great prizes for top projects.
Social data aggregator Gnip is partnering with Twitter to provide access to the microblogging giant’s firehose at various levels through its Gnip API, but only for analysis, not display. Additionally, Twitter is transitioning all “gardenhose” developers–those receiving 10% of the Twitter stream–over to Gnip’s service. Twitter, which has carefully chosen firehose customers in the past, now can focus on its core product, rather than directly selling access to its users’ data.
If you are into developing word games and have been scouting around for both a word database and an API to go with to make things easier, Wordnik may just have delivered the solution for you. The online dictionary’s latest version of its Wordnik API is squarely targeting word game developers by giving them additional methods that will help them find words with a great degree of control.
With roughly one-third of our entire mashup directory composed of mapping mashups, we’ve come to expect a lot if a site plans to use a map. That said, we’re still big fans of maps and are always excited to see something new. Each of the mashups below brought something new, whether it’s interaction, data, visualization–or all three.
Online mapping and directions innovator MapQuest has been building new web services on top of data from the publicly-editable OpenStreetMap project since the company announced a new open platform initiative in August. Now MapQuest has a new addition to its family of open data–based services, bike routes:
This week we had 35 new APIs added to our API directory including a tool to geolocate by ip address, spelling correction service, cost per click advertising network, bulk sms messaging service, opensocial service and web page text summarization tool. Below is more detail on each of these new APIs.
This past week 17 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 55 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include AlchemyAPI Keyword and Term Extraction , Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Marketplace Web Service, BatchBook, CitySourced, Dailyplaces, Factual, Google Maps Elevation, Google Places, SEOmoz, Walk Score, WhitePages.com, Yellow Canada and Zappos. The most often used APIs this week are Facebook, Google Earth and Google Maps. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (8 APIs, 14 mashups), Shopping (7 APIs, 8 mashups) and Social (6 APIs, 9 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
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