Twitter shut off basic authentication in August. Yet, that did not put an end to sharing one’s password with other services. Mobile apps still request your credentials, as opposed to redirecting to Twitter as part of the “OAuth dance.” And the same was true with Apple’s Twitter integration. Why aren’t some playing by Twitter’s new rules?
Many developers dream of a successful Facebook application. Quite often, there are several hurdles to getting your application working right within the Facebook ecosystem. Facebook itself is here to help with some guidelines that cover error messages, caching and even how to test your app before platform changes go live to your users.
Anyone using the Ping social network within Apple’s iTunes music store can now syndicate their activity to Twitter. Already many are sharing their music interests on the microblogging platform, such as via the #nowplaying hashtag. While Ping does not include what’s being played, it does syndicate purchases, comments, likes and status messages.
Everywhere you look, there’s a map mashup for just about any recognized monument. Yet, those looking to find the location of graves in the U.S. Arlington National Cemetery won’t find such a mashup. There are some things that come close, but nothing that utilizes a mapping API. What’s more, it seems the cemetery itself is stuck in the past when it comes to organizing its own information.
Anyone requesting XML from the Twitter streaming API better switch to JSON as soon as possible. Starting in early December, the microblogging service will only send JSON-formatted responses from its popular new streaming API, the recommended way to get search results as they happen.
Google will deprecate its Google Maps Data API in January, lending support instead to its popular new Google Fusion Tables API. Both store geographic data and allow developers to access it programmatically. The move to discontinue support of the Maps Data API does not affect the Google Maps API, the third version of which Google sent into production in May.
Auction giant eBay is giving its developers another way to access listings. In addition to its current eBay API, it has added support for Microsoft’s “OData,” an Open Data protocol for accessing and querying data provided by an API. Using familiar technologies, OData provides a consistent structure, with the promise of APIs that are more flexible and easier to use.
Over the past few months at PW we’ve noticed steady increase in the number of mentions of Data as a Service (DaaS) and this trend looks to continue. Our first post on the subject was by a guest author Pete Soderling who introduced us to the concept and discussed pricing models. Then we continued the theme by posting about a partnership between a stock data site and an open data platform, working together to deliver a stock historical data API. The latest big move in this area sees NASDAQ creating a Data-On-Demand service accessible through a Web API.
This week we had 23 new APIs added to our API directory including a campground database, web based CRM and marketing system, online shopping cart software, task tracking application for agile projects, real-time carbon footprint estimates and a hyperlocal data and news aggregator. Below is more detail on each of these new APIs.
This past week 21 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 19 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Amazon RDS Relational Database Service, GreatSchools and Groupon. The most often used APIs this week are DonorsChoose, Google Maps and Twitter. And [...]
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