Back to the Future: Sociocast Raises $1 Million for Predictions API

Greg Bates, March 19th, 2013

Sociocast PredictionSociocast raised $1 million in funding from New York’s Raptor Ventures, bringing its total to nearly $6 million. As CEO and founder Albert Azout told Sean Ludwig at Venturebeat, the Prediction API is useful to advertising, social and gaming, retail, finance and government.


Today in APIs: Mining Archives, Open Innovation, and 24 New APIs

Greg Bates, February 11th, 2013

New York Times Article SearchWhy the New York Times is key to the future. Open innovation and the distributed business model. Plus: service tracks API client library changes, Twitter advertising API, and 24 new APIs.


Today In APIs: AWS slashes prices, Role of APIs in BYOD and 9 New APIs

Romin Irani, February 1st, 2013

Amazon EC2AWS heats up the IaaS space with price cuts and global availablity of M3 instances. How APIs can help solve BYOD. Plus: Canadian Yellow Pages now has 2300 API-related partners and 9 new APIs.


Today In APIs: Google Tracking Users Offline, Google Maps of the Year and 16 New APIs

Wendell Santos, December 21st, 2012

Google DriveGoogle’s new API links users’ online activity with what they do in the real world. The best Google Maps of 2012. Plus: The AWS Data Pipeline now available to all and 16 new APIs.


Today In APIs: Facebook Android SDK updates, FullContact API use case and 9 New APIs

Romin Irani, December 14th, 2012

FacebookFacebook Android SDK 3.0 moves out of Beta. Maptia describes how they use FullContact API to filter customer signups. Plus: 300m people are now viewing TripAdvisor content on other sites each month, Amazon Web Services adds detailed billing reports, and 9 new APIs.


Today In APIs: PeopleBrowsr vs Twitter, Dwolla Guest Checkout and 11 New APIs

Romin Irani, November 30th, 2012

PeoplebrowsrA San Francisco court asks Twitter to make available its Firehose for PeopleBrowsr. Guest Checkout from Dwolla. Plus: API Hackday New York is back, the new AWS Data Pipeline and 11 new APIs.


69 New APIs: Google, Rackspace and PassHound

Wendell Santos, November 4th, 2012

This week we had 69 new APIs added to our API directory including a pass and ticket creation service for PassBook, eCommerce diagnosis and analytics service, advertising campaign management service, quality control service for crowd-sourcing websites, server storage extension service. We also covered an API that streamlines event planning. Below are more details on each of these new APIs.


Today in APIs: Google’s App Engine, API Quirks and 12 New APIs

Greg Bates, October 29th, 2012

Google App EngineThe Google App Engine went down for over 3 hours on Friday, then bounced back. Zapier added a new blog series on API quirks. Plus: there’s a new API meetup in Paris, the Amazon outage is proof that API monitoring needs overhauling, and 12 new APIs.


API Spotlight: Datownia, Yodlee, and Social Networking Curator Actwitty

Matthew Scott, October 26th, 2012

DatowniaOf the many APIs we published this week, 15 were highlighted on the blog by our team of writers. In this post, we’ll shine a spotlight on those 15, which include the Datownia API. The Datownia API generates an API from an Excel spreadsheet that allows developers to integrate their data with any website or app. The object of the API is to allow developers to update content on multi-platform apps simultaneously. To learn more about the Datownia API visit the Datownia site as well as the Datownia API blog post.


Google Launches DoubleClick Ad Exchange Seller API

Janet Wagner, October 26th, 2012

Google CodeYesterday, Google announced the launch of a new API that gives developers programmatic access to their DoubleClick Ad Exchange Seller inventory and the ability to generate reports.


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