Data marketplace Infochimps is enabling devs to build more interesting Twitter-powered applications. Recently, the three new apps below were built in a weekend. But the speed to produce Twitter apps isn’t the only thing that’s fast. So is the Infochimps Twitter API, according to one developer.
“Hello, who am I speaking with please? Is this LoveUrApi007, who’s attempting to register at my site?” Why can’t there be a little more trust on the web? Have you ever wished that you knew with a little more certainty that user registrations on your website were authentic? Especially with the amount of telemarketing calls that hit those of us that using land lines, it would be nice to add a little more authenticity to the use of phone numbers in today’s technology. Phoneify and its Phoneify API is are trying to help.
DokDok, a Montreal-based startup, has had an email attachment management application on Google Apps some time. To make this work, it made an API to use internally that intelligently uses email accounts as if they were datastores. Recently, the company announced that this API would be renamed Context.IO and available to all.
NPR launched our API in July 2008. This API was the technology keystone of our strategy at NPR to solve crossmedia challenges by ensuring content could be ported to any presentation layer (websites, mobile apps etc). While the API has been a huge success, the code architecture behind the API was built on some inaccurate assumptions. NPR has recently finished refactoring the code behind API and we have already seen a significant improvement in performance and are better positioned for future growth of the API.
This week we had 25 new APIs added to our API directory including a CRM for small business, ebook price data engine, virtual learning management system, fax delivery service, phone number verification service and corporate social networking platform. We gave a little extra attention to two of these APIs in posts about a tall glass of beer data and a 6 sided popularity metric. Below is more detail on all 25 of these new APIs.
Mobile devs in the San Francisco area may want to put on an extra pot of coffee and get to work. The traveling mobile app showcase AppCircus is coming to AppNation. Three API providers are offering up prizes for using their platforms. The deadline is just a few days away: April 19.
This past week 14 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 Alexa Top Sites, Google Font, Mochi Media Flash Games, Nodester, Recurly and Zappos. The most often used APIs this week are Twilio, Twitter and YouTube. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Other (2 APIs, 2 mashups), Social (2 APIs, 4 mashups) and Internet (2 APIs, 2 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
Every day we select one new mashup to crown mashup of the day. It usually does something unique or uses a more obscure API. And it always gets interest across the web, being tweeted, blogged and tinkered with by our developer audience. We’d like to share some of the criteria we use to pick mashups of the day and invite you to submit your apps that make use of one or more APIs.
It’s no secret that Facebook’s Graph API and widgets have contributed a great to Facebook’s success and never-ending permeation of the web as we know it. Looking to make a similar move, LinkedIn has recently expanded its own developer platform and LinkedIn API. The new LinkedIn tools aren’t just aimed at developers. With just a couple lines of code, you can begin integrating LinkedIn in to your web page with a variety of plugins and widgets.
Are you part of a beer community and like to get information on various breweries in and around your neighbourhood and their beers? If yes, the Brewery DB is a great project that aims to build an open database of breweries and beers. You can contribute your data along with other beer afficinados but if you are a developer, you have access to all of this information via its Brewery DB API.
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