Thrutu helps users enhance the phone calls experience by providing “buttons” that let users access real-time features and share information while using Andriod or iPhone devices. Last month we told you about the company holding their first ever contest using the Thrutu API.
Today Thrutu announced the judging panel for the Button Developer Contest including ProgrammableWeb’s [...]
Earlier this month I eulogized the Yahoo Maps API. It was launched the same week as the Google Maps API and for some time was often mentioned at the same time. The Yahoo Maps API, it appeared, was to be disconnected by now, but it appears the company is going to wait a bit longer.
A long time ago in Internet years, in a galaxy not so far away, a handful of tech titans in Silicon Valley and Seattle began building business platforms and battling for supremacy. The mobile device and app revolution hadn’t yet begun. Terms like “social networking” and “wisdom of crowds” were going “viral”. Web services and APIs were still emerging. The Google IPO of late 2004 had effectively slammed shut the Web 1.0 dotbomb era, paving the way for the amazing evolution of Web 2.0 services in 2005 that hit the mainstream in 2006.
At TwilioCon in San Francisco today, Twilio is unveiling a new billing system for its API. This new in-app billing solution is called “Twilio Connect,” and it provides a much simpler model for developers to implement customer billing when it comes to recurring charges for SMS and phone calls.
The API space is getting interesting with opportunities now opening up for developers to pitch their ideas for API mashups and converting that into a business. If you are a software developer living in Central Europe or Germany and having an idea or working prototype of a mashup, you have a great opportunity to turn that into a viable business. Yes, the API Mashup contest is back and bigger than before.
This week at the Twilio Conference, the five finalists of the latest round of the Twilio Fund will be pitching their startups to compete for investment from the micro-fund. The fund is meant to encourage usage of the Twilio API as a platform and was created through a Twilio and 500 Startups partnership.
Tokbox, the provider of OpenTok Video Conferencing platform is marching forward in establishing itself as a premier video conferencing platform. Earlier this year, it had announced its decision to become a pure platform play and that move had paid dividends with more partners and users adopting it, as interest in video conferencing has grown. TokBox has now enhanced its Tokbox OpenTok API by providing video archiving and a clear monetization plan.
This week we had 40 new APIs added to our API directory including a social trip planning service, content sharing service, startup financing community, website video recording tool, food review and sharing service, and a mobile marketing service. Below are more details on each of these new APIs.
This past week 30 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 26 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include Bing Maps Geocode, Bing Maps Routes, Bing Maps Search, Hoiio SMS, Jamendo, KooKoo, Public Transit Data Community and Topsy. The most often used APIs this week are Twilio, Twilio SMS and Twitter. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Mapping (5 APIs, 12 mashups), Messaging (3 APIs, 15 mashups) and Social (3 APIs, 10 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
The fall issue of GOOD uses data from our quickly-expanding API directory to show its growth over time, including some important APIs along the way. In the same infographic (below), you can also see promenant open government data initiatives from around the world.
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