This week we had 33 new APIs added to our API directory including a business travel data service, web translation tool, geolocation service, UK government data service, digital goods marketplace and online billing service. Below is more details on each of these new APIs.
This past week 19 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 27 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Adobe Social, awe.sm, ChannelAdvisor, Facebook Ads, Gigya, Groupon, Nozbe, Plancast, Rovi Cloud Services and voo2do. The most often used APIs this week are geocoder, Google Maps and Loxcel. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Social (6 APIs, 8 mashups), Shopping (3 APIs, 3 mashups) and Video (3 APIs, 3 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
Hoover’s, one of the largest providers of company, people and industry research has just announced a developer contest. The contest invites developers to use the Hoover’s API to come up with ideas for great apps. Then, developers will actually create those applications, consuming the Hoover’s database.
In what many are calling a boon to real-time search, Topsy today announced a new round of funding that doubles the money it’s raised. The company uses indexes Twitter and makes the results available on its website, as well as through its Topsy API, which sees more than half a billion queries per month.
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In April 2010, Facebook announced the Social Graph API. The Social Graph API uses REST, JSON, and OAuth for authentication. It relies on standards much more than the original Facebook platform. The trend toward standardization has continued at Facebook. With the announcement of iFrames support for Pages, Facebook has pulled the plug on their proprietary FBML format. No new FBML applications may be created after Friday.
If you’re a geek headed to Austin, here’s another reason to get excited. If you won’t be making the trip to SXSW, there’s another reason to check back with ProgrammableWeb. On Sunday Google is hosting a developer event highlighting its many APIs and co-hosting a “SuperHappyDevHouse” that “combines serious and not-so-serious productivity with a fun and exciting party atmosphere.” We’ll be covering both events.
ProgrammableWeb has reached a major milestone by adding its 3,000th web service API to our API directory. We’ve come a long way when you consider there were only 105 listed at the end of 2005. As we’ve noted previously, the growth rate of APIs doubled, which led to an influx of new services. Below are some of the trends we’ve spotted as the directory marks a new high.
Now that the Instagram API is available with last month’s public beta launch, we’ve started to see some fun apps built on top of it. Since Instagram’s only official product is an iPhone application, that means we’re seeing web clients, badge widgets and even Hot-or-Not style games. The best part is that some even cross over to multiple mobile photo APIs, increasing their reach and usefulness.
This week we had 54 new APIs added to our API directory including a speech recognition service, business instant messaging software, blogging platform, event listing service and URL shortening. We looked more in-depth at some of these, including Wisconsin Transit Tracker, a Geo API for Wikipedia and Cohuman’s API Contest. Below is more detail on each of the 54 new APIs.
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