Our API directory now includes 203 photo APIs. The newest is the Getty Images Connect API. The most popular, in terms of mashups, is the Flickr API. We list 600 Flickr mashups. Below you’ll find some more stats from the directory, including the entire list of photo APIs.
While map mashups are what have defined this genre of application, the second most popular type of web mashup here on ProgrammableWeb are photo mashups. How popular? Just this past week the number of photo-related mashups passed the 500 mark, and there are now 505 listed.
Along with the rapid growth of video APIs, the marketplace of photo-related APIs continues to expand rapidly. Since we looked at 36 Photo APIs earlier this year, we’ve added nearly a dozen new ones, and there are now 47 APIs tagged “photo” in our web service directory.
Most people don’t realize how many popular photo services like Flickr, Smugmug and Picasa offer web APIs. In this overview, we’ll take a look at the breadth and power of currently available photo APIs and the types of photo mashups developers are building with them.
Out of the over 500 APIs listed at ProgrammableWeb, how many are offered by companies based in Europe? With MashupCamp Dublin in a couple weeks, this seems like a good question. In taking a look at the directory there are at least 28 European APIs (that is, companies headquartered or founded in Europe, even though [...]
Of all the hundreds of tags you can see in our mashup tag cloud, the second most popular behind “mapping” is “photo”. How popular? As of now there are over 200 photo-related mashups listed at ProgammableWeb — 202 by today’s count.
Also, you may not be aware that there are 14 photo-related APIs. The vast [...]
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