JavaScript has been one of the most talked languages this year. It rules not only on the client-side, but has also made significant inroads into server side architectures, especially if you consider the mind share that Node.js received this year. It will not be a surprise if API vendors put a JavaScript API on top of their list next year as part of their client libraries. Google, whose APIs are among the most integrated, has made a jump on the trend and released an Alpha version of its JavaScript client library for Google APIs.
Exchanging currency for items or services is such an old time tradition and yet there are so many ways it can be done. I’ve just taken a stroll through the payment systems neighborhood and I’ve felt inspiration from the innovators FaceCash & Dwolla, pride in my home state operator PowerPay, and murky suspicion toward JunglePay.
A year ago users of Garmin’s sport tracking devices logged into its Garmin Connect site to find a seemingly minor change. Instead of embedding Google Maps, the GPS manufacturer had switched to Microsoft’s Bing Maps. According to the 38 pages of comments in Garmin’s forums, this was in actuality a major change. A year later, Garmin responded in October by giving users the option of Bing or Google.
This week we had 62 new APIs added to our API directory including a website filtering data service, social network mapping service, webfeed search service, time tracking and project management service, customer experience and cloud application service and deal distribution service. In addition we covered Moonshadow Mobile’s big data API. Below are more details on each of these new APIs.
This past week 8 new mashups were added to our mashup directory and 12 different APIs were used to build them. Some of the newer or less frequently seen APIs include CareerBuilder, Moonshadow Mobile and Trailer Addict. The most often used APIs this week are Facebook Graph, Trailer Addict and YouTube. And the most commonly used types of APIs were Reference (2 APIs, 2 mashups), Social (2 APIs, 3 mashups) and Video (2 APIs, 3 mashups). The list below shows which APIs were used by which mashups:
After Facebook announced that apps can be deployed to Heroku, the cloud platform saw tremendous growth. It’s on pace to add five times as many applications in 2011 as it had last year, likely fueled by being the only cloud service supported from within Facebook. The two companies introduced a new concept in developer relations, the “click-to-cloud” sample app.
Looking for work? We’ve all been there and know that at times the job search can be daunting. Jobs mashups have been submitted to our directory in higher numbers recently so today we’ll take a look at some of the best. A sampling of recent job search mashups leverage a variety of sources to help you find the perfect job. These include social APIs such as Twitter and LinkedIn as well as traditional job board API CareerBuilder.
Twitter added some features to its Search API to bring it up to snuff with the flagship Twitter API. At the same time, it brings the context of a tweet to the place where users likely need it most. Twitter first announced entity additions to the search API response in October, but it went live Thursday, with one extra nugget: in_reply_to_status_id.
What’s your most prized domain name? We all have the ones that make us proud. For Lexity and its employees, it’s their company’s name. That’s because Lexity used to be called Vurve, but everyone wanted to re-brand. Rather than sit around thinking up names, developer Eugene Shumulinsky wrote a program. The script generated many possibilities. Some were even good, including Lexity, which the company acquired.
If you subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds, you may find yourself wanting to view only a subset of the content. You can organize by folder, but sometimes searching the feeds is the quickest way to get at what you seek. A new service from Q-Sensei is now bringing that feed search power to your applications via its Q-Sensei FeedBooster API.
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