This past week 20 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 ChannelAdvisor, Hiveminder, Nozbe, Remember the Milk, Toodledo and Verizon NavBuilder LocationKit. The most often used APIs this week are Freebase, Twitter and YouTube. And the most commonly used types of APIs were PIM (4 APIs, 4 mashups), Mapping (3 APIs, 4 mashups) and Shopping (3 APIs, 3 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
The world’s largest open research catalog is now calling upon developers to pitch themselves into a developer contest to build the coolest, most popular and useful application using the Mendeley API. With over 70 million papers in its database, Mendeley is making available top-notch research for what it hopes will encourage developers to build the “Facebook of science data.”
Customer service-focused Zappos intends to make public a feature of its Zappos API that allows customers to access order history. The feature is currently available in its official iPhone and iPad apps, though there is no timeline for when Zappos will make it available to its growing developer community.
Real-time and the real-time web continue to be a hot topic of conversation but is the term “real-time” getting used correctly? When we talk about real-time technology are we truly describing what the technology is delivering or is it being used and abused as just another marketing buzz word? Can we class any of the current technology solutions as truly real-time and can other solutions be defined in any other way? Is it too late to save “real-time” or will it forever be lost to marketing?
Topsy, the Twitter search indexer that recently raised another $15 million, now lets users zero in on tweets mentioning videos. According to Topsy, the trending videos are the “most popular videos shared by influential users within the first 24 hours of their release.” The feature is also available in its Topsy API, though currently undocumented.
Appcelerator, a company focused on cross-platform development tools, has started extending itself into the world of APIs by offering mobile developers drop-in tools for integrating their applications with popular web services. Appcelerator recently announced a new offering called Titanium+Plus, a set of premium modules that developers can purchase to incorporate into applications built using Titanium Mobile, Appcelerator’s open source mobile development platform. Rather than mainly providing new or deeper access to the core functions of devices, the new Titanium+Plus modules are focused outward—or maybe upward—towards the cloud. In fact, the announcement came with a new tagline: “The cloud starts here™”.
Last month, Fflap, a social sharing service that enables users to leverage social networking services to sell their eBay items, announced a service re-launch. The new site design includes more social features such as profile pages for its users as they share content, and automated scheduling of posts to other services.
“Ideas worth spreading” is the slogan of TED, the elite conference whose videos are extremely popular on the web. Now the potentially viral content will be spread even further with the new TED API for accessing the 900 videos and associated metadata.
Today thirty two startups will take the stage at SXSW Accelerator to battle to be named the best. Last year’s overall winner became the largest mashup acquisition ever when it was gobbled up by Apple a month later. Who will be the winner this year? Chances look good that it will have an API. Below are the finalists that are in our directory.
Mobile may be the rage, but there’s a whole breed of location applications possible from desktop and laptop computers. The trick is IP geolocation and the company behind the Quova API wants developers to push the boundaries with its new contest. The company will announce the contest today at SXSW, but Quova’s Laurie Anne Lassek gave us a sneak peek yesterday (see video embedded below).
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